flabberghaster OP wrote on March 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM (edited on March 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM)

Reply to comment by devtesla in Actually kind of good app idea by flabberghaster

The dynamic ad thing I knew about but I didn't think of it when I made this. The "if it got big it would crater the already not great podcast ads business model and put people whose output I like out of work" did occur to me.

I feel like you could may be work around the dynamic ads issue if you were good enough with signal processing. Originally the idea was "the only good use case for an AI I can think of, is one trained to recognize ads in podcasts and skip over them" but then I tried to think how to do it without AI.

Even if you didn't use AI, you could probably do what Shazam did where it could recognize a song. The app would instead, recognize the point in the podcast where they were just about to throw to ads, and when they come back, and skip over anything in between. This would still work with tagging probably.

The podcast companies would come up with countermeasures I'm sure. And it seems quite complex. But I wouldn't have to hear about sports betting as much.

devtesla wrote on March 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Sports betting ads is an instant unfollow for any podcast Lol.

What do you listen to anyway? My regulars are Just King Things (Stephen King podcast, weirdly touches on a lot of American culture), QAA (conspiracy skeptic stuff), some board game stuff, and weirdo comedy stuff like Seeking Derangements and Doighboys.

flabberghaster OP wrote on March 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM

I listen to a ton most of which have no ads, but Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here and Better Offline are all I heart radio and they have all kinds of fuck ass ads.

It's so funny to be listening to better offline, where the whole podcast is about how bad AI is, and every ad is about how you NEED to up your AI game to keep up in the market.