Wisdom

Once your content leaves the barn, you've lost control of it

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once that ability is out there, you have to realize as a content creator, podcaster, there's nothing you can do about it. Because it's all a private experience you have no control over. Correct. If you allow your content to leave the barn – You've lost control.

Episode 273: Advertising is the Horse and Buggies of Podcasting (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:53:14 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Like 2x playback, local AI that strips ads or reshapes episodes happens in a private experience the creator can't control. If you let your content leave the barn, you've lost control. What stopped this before was the inability to turn unstructured audio into structured data, and that ability is now commoditized and headed into every phone.