Episode 265: Jihobbyist

Podcasting 2.0 July 17th 2026 Episode 265 - "Jihobbyist"

Slop or Not! Lightning or Frightening! Adam and Dave go deep with the Boardroom after a 2 week break

ShowNotes

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00 - PODPING GOSSIP-WRITER → PRODUCTION + INDEX PLUMBING

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01 - THE OPEN INDEX TURNS UP INSIDE AN AI SCRAPER (SUNO)

<b>@js flagged it:</b> a hack at Suno reveals the AI music generator used <b>PodcastIndex</b> to do its targeting &mdash; "with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts."

<b>Board question:</b> the Index exists to be "free, for any use" &mdash; and here "any use" is an AI company bulk-harvesting a million hours to train on. Is that the deal working as designed, or does anything change? A live test of the open-index ethos.

Ties straight to the on-device/namespace fight below and to the spam/AI-slop lane &mdash; the same extraction pressure from three directions.

Hack reveals Suno scraped via PodcastIndex (404 Media)

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