Comment on Column | No time to read? Google’s new AI will turn anything into a podcast

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why does Google do anything?

  A 10 minute audio has far more valuable ad inventory than a few paragraphs of text.

  I’m sure they’ll start inserting ads as soon as they add the inventory to Google Ads Manager.

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  • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sometimes they just do research. Like when their employees made transformers and nothing came of them until Open AI capitalized on it.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They make cool stuff, but they are ultimately an advertising company (as in that’s their main source of revenue). So by all means enjoy the cool stuff, just proceed with caution and of course assume nothing is permanent!

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      • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have a feeling this experiment would sooner get the axe than have ads injected. There was initially a waiting list, but just a few days in it was completely open to the public.

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