We bring you this dispatch from the AI slop dungeon known as Facebook: fake, AI-generated podcast bros are currently racking up views on Mark Zuckerberg’s first social network by doling out “relationship advice,” mostly in the form of banal screeds about how men are failing women.
The videos are designed to resemble the short video pullouts popularized by the practice known as “clipping.” But rather than snip short videos from real podcasts, these accounts seek to create short segments of fake podcasts that don’t actually exist, featuring made-up podcasters who aren’t real.
“A woman working 40 hours a week or more, paying for her own hair, nails, rent, car, food, and gas, handling everything by herself — she’s not going to be the soft, feminine woman you expect her to be,” a bearded, silver-haired man in a fitted black t-shirt says into a podcast-style microphone. The man — who is AI-generated — is said to be a “motivational speaker,” and is featured on a Facebook page called “The Male Insight.”
“And no, she can’t bring you peace when she’s living in survival mode every single day,” the man adds. “She’s been carrying weight that was never meant to be carried alone.”
