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How to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Podcast
You probably already use ChatGPT to write podcast scripts or episode descriptions. But did you know it can also recommend your show to new listeners?
More and more people now ask ChatGPT, not Google, for answers to their questions. And that includes finding podcast recommendations, even on ultra-specific topics.
In this article, we’ll show you how these AI tools choose what to recommend and how to make sure your podcast is part of the answer.
To understand how ChatGPT might recommend a podcast, we first need to clarify how it works. Contrary to what some might assume, ChatGPT does not have access to audio content. It doesn’t “listen” to your episodes and can’t evaluate your voice, tone, or storytelling style. Its entire understanding of your podcast depends on one thing: text.
ChatGPT, like all large language models, is trained on massive datasets built from publicly available content on the internet. That includes pages from blogs, news sites, discussion forums like Reddit, and also podcast pages on platforms such as Spotify or Apple Podcasts but only the parts that are publicly accessible and text-based. Titles, episode descriptions, show summaries, transcripts, and any web page where your podcast is mentioned can all become part of this training data. The more your podcast is represented in these public text sources, the more likely it is to be “seen” by the AI during its training. Read More
Article originally written by Laura and published on Ausha.
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We know what you’re thinking: Transcripts? But podcasts are an audio and listening experience. We totally get that, but consider your listener and the scope of, well, everything.
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