{"id":5688,"date":"2025-06-29T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2025-06-29T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:22:15","slug":"mobileviews-568-everything-is-ai-now-slop-speech-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/29\/mobileviews-568-everything-is-ai-now-slop-speech-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews 568: Everything is AI Now: &#8211; Slop, Speech, &#038; Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"MobileViews 568: Everything is AI Now: - Slop, Speech, &amp; Subscriptions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=p428i-18efe11-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MViews-568-Jon-me-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MViews-568-Jon-me-2.png 947w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MViews-568-Jon-me-2-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MViews-568-Jon-me-2-768x358.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/openai\/686748\/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How ChatGPT &amp; other LLMs are influencing the academics&#8217; word choices<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/692648\/microsoft-bsod-black-screen-of-death-color-change-official\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft changing the Blue Screen of Death to the Black Screen of Death<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AI_slop\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI Slop<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscription fatigue: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2vgkn7w10o\">BBC News subscription wall for people in the US<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More on the AI divide: Advanced AI features behind paywalls<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/05\/20\/1116327\/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech\/\">AI&#8217;s electrical power footprint<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Device AI divide: You need the &#8220;right&#8221; kind of consumer computers for many AI features<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief audio switching\/comparison between the Comica Ejoy mic (what Todd uses for most podcasts), the Tongveo 4K webcam mic, and the M4 Apple Macbook Air built-in microphone<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ToddOgasawara\/podcasts\u201d\">MobileViews YouTube Podcasts channel <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d&lt;\/a\">MobileViews Podcast on Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss: How ChatGPT &amp; 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