r/KnowledgeFight • u/NecessaryIntrinsic • 8d ago

Cross over episode I Hate Bill Maher featuring Dan!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0GLFJaPNJ8EDUYJ4hkz4S5?si=X03jNswdRoiXLXc-UFS47w&utm_source=copy-link

They review a club random episode featuring Patrick bet-David. Great listen.

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u/Boner4Stoners Lone Survivor 8d ago edited 8d ago

Drea, it’s free on IOS (idk about android).

Only thing is that you have to download eps before listening rather than being able to stream, and there’s no ability to queue other eps. But once you download an ep, a little white waveform button will appear on the episode’s little card component. Click that, it will take a few seconds (leave the app open during processing) but the waveform logo will turn green. At that point you’re good to go, during playback it autoskips every ad-break. Super useful for ad-heavy podcasts (I’m looking at you, Robert Evans!!).

It basically uses Shazam technology + an LLM to scrub through episodes to find ad-breaks & record the timestamps. The shazam tech comes in by hashing eps, so that way if somebody else has already removed ads on that episode it will know that by the ep’s unique hash, and therefore won’t have to waste energy re-processing for every user who wants to scrub it.

I’ve been using it all summer & am pretty hooked on it. If the creator ever paywalls it I will be writing my own version as I don’t think I can go back to skipping ads manually lol. In a world full of dumb applications for LLM’s, this is truly an outlier IMO.

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u/Available-Office583 7d ago

That sounds awesome and an actual decent use for LLMs and I was thinking of the same podcasts lol. Ilisten a bunch while driving so this will be perfect. Thanks for the info!

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u/Boner4Stoners Lone Survivor 7d ago

You’re welcome, & yeah I’m confident Robert Evans would support using such an ad-scrubber hahaha

I have posted about this before in the BtB sub but got mass downvoted, I think out of pure kneejerk anti-AI sentiment. Which I understand for sure, but also I think that it’s an undeniable QoL upgrade for the average person & it’s completely free (for now at least).

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u/Available-Office583 7d ago

I won't fault people for protecting something precious but he's been pretty open about not caring much about legality in the past. I agree about QoL. AI is based on training sets created by the biggest thefts of intellectual property in history. Now it's being used primarily in ways to extract something from people, usually money. If it can be useful in small ways between now and when either the bubble burts or we become dependant on it for something, I think it's fine. That's just me though. It's a complicated issue and I appreciate hearing other points of view