George Butler

We're a tech company.

We don't really care how many people listen to then start kind of boasting about a million listeners is a bit contradictory, but also actually, if you break it down tens of thousands of episodes released a day, um,

A million listeners is nothing.

I mean, you're talking like a few listens per show to get to that figure.

So, you know, I kind of question the numbers that were put out.

There is an admission there that you don't really care about the content.

Thus, you don't really care about the output and the audience.

So it is about developing a bit of tech.

why monetize the content you're currently putting out there would be a question I have, you know, why, why take ads revenue from creators who are working hard and making things themselves?

Uh, if ultimately that's not your end game, that's a question I have.

But then why take ad revenue?

I mean, I don't know what the proof is about money that actually is being put into it is what I would say.

I don't know if we've seen great revenues come into that business.

Yeah.

But, you know, I think there is also an element of and this is probably one of the reasons why people in audio and some in advertising are so hot and bothered by this is that, you know, we know AI isn't a safe space yet.

We know there's huge flaws.

There's trappings, there's hallucinations, there's trust problems.

And if you are putting out audio content, if you're putting out podcasts and you're taking revenue and it's associated with something which isn't

ready necessarily to be autonomous.

And I think, I think there lies an issue in that you are jeopardizing the potential trust in both from both listeners and advertisers by putting something out there that by her own admission, isn't ready and isn't completed and isn't the finished product.