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@js @dave (From slop monetization side, they're exploiting the ad networks that don't care where the downloads come from.)

@js @dave From the app side, AI slop is specifically exploiting the podcast industry’s lack of investment in search rankings. If that wasn't worth investing in before, it'll be even costlier now, and aside from minimizing db costs, how would that investment benefit the apps?

@dave Apologies if this was discussed on an episode I missed, but I was thinking about the flood of slop, and how the index/hosts/apps aren't incentivized to maintain the commons.

Imagine a world where you didn't host the index, you just maintained the open-source project for other people to self-host it. Feed parsing, database ingestion, etc. and the burden of slop fell on each party's growing number of database rows. Much more motivation for contributors to find a solution.