AI podcasts are turning audio platforms into slop factories Young woman listening to a podcast Google Gemini / Google AI slop has already flooded video feeds, gaming debates, software code, and search results. Now the same low-effort machine-made content is moving into podcasts. Music usually dominates the AI slop debate , but the podcast problem may be harder to spot and harder to clean up. AI tools can now create, upload, and even monetize entire shows far faster than traditional podcast studios. AI generated podcast image. Gemini / Nano Banana is on the left John Brandon / Digital Trends ` Is podcasting becoming the next slop factory? A Bloomberg report points to how quickly this is spreading. According to the Podcast Index, 10,871 new podcast feeds were created over roughly nine days, and about 4,243 of them, or 39%, were likely AI-generated. One AI podcast startup now says it has more than 10,000 active shows and published 877 new shows in only 48 hours.…