• wichee@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious who actually reads postgame write ups anymore. That content can now be digested in the form of podcasts

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      1 year ago

      People who don’t like podcasts and/or just want to quickly skim over stuff.

      Even postgame recap podcasts will probably be automated to some extent quite soon once you get better text to speech programs.

      • FuzzyButtScratcher@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        what is even the point of that? you can go to a website and do text to speech. i thought podcasts were meant to offer insight and opinions. listening to an ai read box scores sounds painfully dull

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          1 year ago

          Which podcasts do you listen to?

          My point is that most of the sports writing outside of a few good beat reporters is very generic. You can notice the patterns very quickly for most of the bread and butter articles released by most websites.

          A good AI/boilerplate can make it a narrative. Team X went up, then continued to maintain a lead with additional scores until Team Z finally scored. Then…

          There are ways to make stuff interesting.