Comment on Column | No time to read? Google’s new AI will turn anything into a podcast
zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 1 month agoI think that it is impressive, but not necessarily that useful? In particular, you can’t really trust what they’re saying to be accurate so it doesn’t actually give you that much usable information.
Very cool, but I’m not sure what I would actually use it for.
averyminya@beehaw.org 1 month ago
This is just fancy transcription, the only thing you can’t trust it to be saying is the article itself…
zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 1 month ago
No, the podcast can absolutely missrepresent the thing that it’s sumarizing. The podcast also adds commentary, and I think it’s especially this commentary that I find unreliable.
averyminya@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Ah, if it also adds commentary then sure. When I tested it out a few times it was just retelling the articles verbatim.