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Heres one thing Ill definitely giveBot Love: This series hasincredibletiming.
Today, discussion and debate over ChatGPT is pervasive.
(Not particularly well, as you might expect.)
Group chats are filled with friends taking screenshots of themselves tinkering with the platform.
Of course, technology has a tendency to change and evolve very quickly.
The other, a woman grappling with her role as the caretaker of her ill husband.
Relationships are a collective story.
(99% Invisiblehas a good stand-alone piece on this storypublished back in 2019.)
And as the stories inBot Loveindicate, maybe thats no so bad after all.
Additional listening…This is one of those moments when the loss ofReply Allis really felt.
Consider revisitingone of that shows earliest stories, featuring Paul Ford and his chatbot of anxieties.
Some alarm was triggered last year when the 2022 edition of the report indicated a decline in recurring listenership.
(Weekly listenership displayed a similar drop.)
The 2023 data should complicate this narrative: Monthly listening shot back up to 42 percent.
Of course, the reading that podcasting as an ecosystem is in trouble or dead was always patently idiotic.
Such an interpretation excessively conflates the health of a medium with the infrastructure working to extract value from it.
the platforms, publishers, jobs, deals, etc.
And itisexperiencing a rough patch.
Several companies are going through layoffs.
SiriusXM is the latest toannounce a huge round, cutting 8 percent or 475 jobs from its workforce.
(The Stitcher divisionseemed particularly hard hit.
Teams would be wise to scoop up the many splendid veteran talents hitting the market right now.)
The big platforms are restructuring and reconfiguring strategies.
The independent operators are continuing to be squeezed.
But its clearer now than ever before that demand isnt going anywhere.
Peoplewantthis stuff, and where theres an audience, there will be value.
The question is how its going to be supplied, generated, and priced.
The turbulence that were seeing is only ever saying something about the supply side.
That is, the way the industry has been structured over the past few years was unsustainable.
It needs improvement or wholesale change.
Were in a transitional period, moving out of one era and into the next.
In-car podcast listening is going up, up, up.
This is a little surprising to me given the dramatic expansion of right-wing podcasting over the past few years.
Meanwhile
Then again, the New YorkTimesis out hereofficializing the stinkof the podcast bro.
Episodes are exclusive on Audible for about two weeks, after which it goes wide.
I guess one can read it as a kind of sequel toThe Michelle Obama Podcast.
Like poetry and nature sounds?
Then youre sure as hell gonna likeTerra Firma.
If any part of this sounds interesting at all to you, youre probably going to like it.
Which, of course, I shouldve known, since the story literally takes place in Virginia.
