Related: Arvid Kahl (who hosts the podcast The Bootstrapped Founder) recently launched https://podcast.fm , which essentially transcribes thousands of podcasts and makes them available for search.
They already did that. The main reason why they created Whisper is to transcribe and train on podcast data
Yes, AI/LLM audio generation is going to be huge. A lot of free podcasts are already distributed as YouTube videos with the only "video" part being the host speaking into the microphone. Some podcasting companies like Acast are sitting on a gold mine of AI training content.
Abusive to think of peoples creative ip as a gold mine to exploit just because we live in a world where companies can change their tos at will, so everyone signs blank contracts to live daily life that say whatever the other party ever wants
Hold on. I never said that the content creators shouldn't get their fair share. But there is clearly a role for aggregators to play here as well.