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		<title>Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - &quot;SlopJacked&quot;</title>
		<ownerName>Adam Curry</ownerName>
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		<outline text="Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - &quot;SlopJacked&quot;">
			<outline text="Dave ships first-party data at the app level - the new /upload/followcounts endpoint changes everything. Plus the podcast:contact; proposal, RSS.com's Alberto Betella on AI disclosure as enforcement substrate"/>
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		<outline text="ShowNotes">
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			<outline text="Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama" type="link" url="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-30/-podslop-proliferation-is-challenging-the-audio-industry"/>
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			<outline text="01 - DAVE SHIPS /upload/followcounts — FIRST-PARTY DATA AT THE APP LEVEL (folder: 01 Dave-Ships-Followcounts)">
				<outline text="New PodcastIndex API endpoint shipped April 30 — apps with publisher API keys can now POST follow-count CSV uploads back to PodcastIndex"/>
				<outline text="Format: feed_url,follow_count — max 50MB per upload"/>
				<outline text="Dave: &amp;#x27;First party data at the app level is something we&amp;#x27;ve never had, so we&amp;#x27;ve been handicapped. This will be a critical step to get the training data set for the new model training as well.&amp;#x27;"/>
				<outline text="Why it matters: until now PodcastIndex inferred subscriber counts from indirect signals. Apps directly know who&amp;#x27;s subscribed but had no way to share that back without privacy concerns. CSV-of-totals threads the needle."/>
				<outline text="Question for Dave: which apps committed first? What does the &amp;quot;new model training&amp;quot; refer to?"/>
				<outline text="Mastodon announcement" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/116495618826973635"/>
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			<outline text="02 - &amp;lt;podcast:contact&amp;gt; NAMESPACE PROPOSAL (folder: 02 Contact-Namespace)">
				<outline text="Daniel J. Lewis (@theDanielJLewis) proposed a new &amp;lt;podcast:contact&amp;gt; namespace tag in GitHub Discussions #770"/>
				<outline text="Dave on Mastodon May 1: &amp;#x27;makes a ton of sense&amp;#x27;"/>
				<outline text="Goal: structured way to expose podcast contact info (host email, social handles, business contact) — currently scattered across iTunes-tagged email/owner fields with no standardization"/>
				<outline text="Walk through the proposal — what fields, optional vs required, what apps would do with them"/>
				<outline text="GitHub Discussion #770" type="link" url="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/770"/>
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			<outline text="03 - ALBERTO BETELLA (RSS.com CEO) — AI DISCLOSURE TAG AS ENFORCEMENT SUBSTRATE (folder: 03 Alberto-RSS-AI-Disclosure)">
				<outline text="May 1 Podnews Weekly Review interview — Alberto Betella, CEO of RSS.com, lays out the framework: AI disclosure isn&amp;#x27;t just a label, it&amp;#x27;s the legal mechanism that lets hosts and platforms ACT against undisclosed slopcasts. RSS.com and Spreaker have AI disclosure in the RSS feed already (RSS.com expanded in March 2026). EU AI Act Article 50 enforcement starts August 2nd 2026 — fines up to €15M or 3% of global turnover for non-disclosure of AI in matters of public interest. Podcasting fits perfectly. Plus Alberto&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;substance test&amp;quot; (1% rule for intro music etc.) and James Cridland&amp;#x27;s terrifying wrap on AI &amp;quot;doctor&amp;quot; podcasts giving medical advice.">
					<outline text="Podnews Weekly Review - Alberto Betella interview" type="link" url="https://op3.dev/e/www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/19107005-fixing-podcasting-s-ai-slop-and-spam-problem-alberto-betella-from-rss-com.mp3"/>
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				<outline text="Clips — 4 clips">
					<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;— SETUP: VOLUNTARY OR MANDATORY DISCLOSURE? ALBERTO REFRAMES — DISCLOSURE PAIRED WITH PLATFORM TERMS IS THE ENFORCEMENT —&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;"/>
					<outline text="01 Alberto Betella (RSS.com CEO) - AI Disclosure Tag Lets Hosts Pull Episodes (1:23)"/>
					<outline text="&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Adam: Alberto on the loud voices in the industry framing this purely as ad fraud / money — he says stop barking, start disclosing.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;"/>
					<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;— THE INDUSTRY BARKING ABOUT MONEY AND ADVERTISEMENT —&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;"/>
					<outline text="02 Alberto Betella (RSS.com CEO) - People Barking About Money and Advertisement (0:19)"/>
					<outline text="&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Adam: And here&amp;#x27;s the worst-case James paints in the wrap — synthetic voice labeled a &amp;quot;doctor,&amp;quot; medical advice, no human in the loop.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;"/>
					<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;— THE DANGEROUS-CONTENT ENDPOINT: SPAM VOICE CALLING THEM A DOCTOR / TERRIFYING —&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;"/>
					<outline text="03 James Cridland (Podnews host) - Spam Voice Calling Them A Doctor Terrifying (0:36)"/>
					<outline text="&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Adam: And to close out — James on what Stephen Goldstein from Amplify Media tells him every time he mentions me.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;"/>
					<outline text="&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;— STEPHEN GOLDSTEIN: I REALLY LIKE YOUR SHOW JAMES, I WISH YOU&amp;#x27;D STOP TALKING ABOUT ADAM CURRY —&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;"/>
					<outline text="04 James Cridland (Podnews host) - Stephen Goldstein I Wish Youd Stop Talking About Adam Curry (0:04)"/>
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				<outline text="should I disclose.ai" type="link" url="https://shouldidisclose.ai"/>
				<outline text="EU AI Act Article 50 (effective Aug 2 2026)" type="link" url="https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/"/>
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			<outline text="04 - TUCSON DENTAL CARE SEO SPAM PODCAST CLEANUP (folder: 04 Tucson-Dental-SEO-Spam)">
				<outline text="Dave killing dozens of duplicate &amp;quot;Transform Your Smile With Tucson Dentist&amp;quot;-style SEO spam podcasts across hosting companies"/>
				<outline text="Latest one slipped into Apple Podcasts: &amp;quot;Transform Your Smile With Tucson Dentist&amp;quot;"/>
				<outline text="Dave: &amp;#x27;Whoever is posting SEO spam podcasts for Tucson dental care needs to stop. I&amp;#x27;ve killed dozens of them across hosting companies so far.&amp;#x27;"/>
				<outline text="Talk about the auto-flagging tooling we walked through last week (PC20-258 &amp;quot;Perceptron&amp;quot;) — is the spam classifier catching these? What&amp;#x27;s the loop?"/>
				<outline text="Apple Podcasts listing" type="link" url="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/transform-your-smile-with-tucson-dentist/id1883288880"/>
				<outline text="Mastodon" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/116499037230575989"/>
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			<outline text="05 - AI HARDWARE CRUNCH — $65 BILLION US POWER EQUIPMENT BOOM (folder: 05 AI-Hardware-Crunch)">
				<outline text="US power equipment market eyes $65B boom on AI datacenter buildout"/>
				<outline text="AI Hype Meets Hardware Crunch (ZeroHedge, Apr 30)" type="link" url="https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/ai-hype-meets-hardware-crunch-us-power-equipment-market-eyes-65-billion-boom"/>
				<outline text="Connects to last week&amp;#x27;s discussion of compute economics — DeepSeek V4 efficiency vs hyperscaler power demand"/>
				<outline text="Hyperscaler bubble thesis from NA: GPU-as-a-service will democratize inference and bypass the datacenter buildout"/>
				<outline text="Brookfield-Backed Compass Pulls Out From Major Northern Virginia Data Center Project (ZeroHedge)" type="link" url="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-come-cancellations-brookfield-backed-compass-pulls-out-major-northern-virginia-data"/>
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			<outline text="06 - ANTHROPIC + AI PRICING FOLLOW-UP (folder: 06 Anthropic-AI-Pricing)">
				<outline text="Cost-of-power pressure on hyperscalers — even at $20/mo Pro plan, Claude Code heavy users were costing Anthropic $60-$150/mo (per PC20-258 reporting)"/>
				<outline text="Anthropic weighs raising funds at $900B valuation, topping OpenAI (CNBC)" type="link" url="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/anthropic-weighs-raising-funds-at-900b-valuation-topping-openai.html"/>
				<outline text="Apple delivers a nearly perfect quarter, with a CEO change and an AI update ahead (CNBC)" type="link" url="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/apple-delivers-a-nearly-perfect-quarter-with-a-ceo-change-and-an-ai-update-ahead.html"/>
				<outline text="Apple CEO Tim Cook warns of extended memory crunch (CNBC)" type="link" url="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/apple-ceo-warns-of-memory-crunch-well-look-at-a-range-of-options.html"/>
				<outline text="Atlassian lifts annual revenue forecast as AI features, enterprise sales boost growth (Reuters)" type="link" url="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMivAFBVV95cUxQR2ZpckVNbkZRbTlZZW94OGNELXJZdWExd1FkM041R0tHUUdJejk1NVBKUDZkVkxLVzhQMlNJbFBqczhmOWZrR2FPSXhrUFo3RXp3UzFNaURJMnJqTzZ6Q1dzZ0hnRm45cXQ0Zlluczd0NzZybHRWTkN6Y0dTUGw4cTV0OWhoQlJpeENRYV9qVHJFNGhFQ1MyWDdIZDBFMGtmQUlZYXhOUWpLU0VKLWtkY1RWNW1Gb0FKYXRwOQ?oc=5"/>
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			<outline text="07 - ROBLOX TANKS 18% ON CHILD SAFETY MEASURES (folder: 07 Roblox-Child-Safety)">
				<outline text="Echo of the broader &amp;quot;platform must protect kids&amp;quot; pressure — connects to YouTube/TikTok/Apple parental controls debates"/>
				<outline text="What does podcasting do here? Are kid-targeted podcasts subject to similar pressure?"/>
				<outline text="Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (CNBC)" type="link" url="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html"/>
				<outline text="Roblox shares plunge as forecast cut signals safety measures weighing on user growth (Reuters)" type="link" url="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxPWEpNbG56MEFiTFVFMDUwYXNoNW9DWENsSUo0TFlmZVRUeFFUN2lqOWdpOXhlTHptMkV3T2NyaW41dXI5cURMWEg5SzhqQVduR1hhWkQtVXhyS0hMSnpHSTBva3pmWkFodmg2dVQxNG1zUTJDZXd5UVlwcFdrUGpDeTZ4dzZTSUwwaGJnWjY5MTZPWU8yLUZidHdLenBRYmhhbkVQVGhWNG4yQ2hVOG41WE5XV0tXYlBuR2tmRmFrTTU?oc=5"/>
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			<outline text="08 - BOARDROOM NEWS BITES (folder: 08 Boardroom-News-Bites)">
				<outline text="Humanoid Robots Enter The Workforce. How Long Before Workers Revolt? (ZeroHedge)" type="link" url="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/humanoid-robots-enter-workforce-how-long-workers-revolt"/>
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		<outline text="Clip Sources">
			<outline text="03 Alberto-RSS-AI-Disclosure">
				<outline text="Podnews Weekly Review - Alberto Betella interview - James Cridland &amp;amp; Sam Sethi" type="link" url="https://op3.dev/e/www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/19107005-fixing-podcasting-s-ai-slop-and-spam-problem-alberto-betella-from-rss-com.mp3"/>
				<outline text="should I disclose.ai (Alberto&amp;#x27;s framework site)" type="link" url="https://shouldidisclose.ai"/>
				<outline text="EU AI Act Article 50" type="link" url="https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/"/>
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