The Washington Post Debuts AI-Personalized Podcasts to Hook Younger Listeners

Top editors irked as Jeff Bezos' Washington Post churns out 'error-riddled' AI podcasts

Editors at The Washington Post are getting sick of the error-filled artificial intelligence podcasts their paper is churning out.According to Semafor, "Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper’s mobile app. In a release, the paper said users will be able to choose preferred topics and AI hosts, and could 'shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their length…

Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes

The ScoopThe Washington Post’s top standards editor Thursday decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists.Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper’s mobile app. In a release, the paper said users will be able to choose preferred topics and AI hosts, and could “shape their own bri…

Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast

The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded by hosts and distributed digitally to entertain or bring listeners up to date on the news. But with the advent of AI, tech companies are keen to stomp the essence out of what makes the format so appealing in the first place: a human-to-human connection. As such, the Washington Post announced this week that it’s launching an AI-based podc…

The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners

The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.