Submitted 2 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/07/google-ai-podcast-notebooklm/
In this case, Facebook’s 99-page user policy. The results, embedded in the story, are worth a listen. This is is some serious sci-fi shit compared to ChatGPT.
Archive link … unfortunately, as I feared, the audio didn’t work for me. Here is the direct link to the clip.
I stopped listening to podcasts once it became impossible to avoid injected ads. I’ll find time to read.
I don’t understand what you mean. I just skip the ads with my skip 30 seconds button.
I don’t want to skip ads. I want to avoid them altogether. They’re intrusive. Especially after listening to the same podcast for a decade, only to suddenly find ads for car companies, and other things irrelevant to me, rudely shoved I to the middle of an otherwise serene experience.
Guarantee someone’s going to generate a bubbly podcast of Mein Kampf or Project 2025.
I know all the cool kids hate on AI, but as someone out of the loop, that 'podcast' is really impressive. I guess it speaks to how a influential certain style of podcasting is (from the likes of NPR) that a machine can copy it the same as other humans do.
As for the embedded link, this works for me (and others on the same site as me), but it might not for others:
I don’t know that it’s influential so much as formulaic. It’s been working for them for decades. And without it, we’d never have gotten Schweddy Balls, and that’s a worse timeline.
For real fun, submit your resume (that shit’s already all over online; Google can have it) and listen to NPR hosts take 7 minutes to describe your career arc.
I 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.
This is just fancy transcription, the only thing you can’t trust it to be saying is the article itself…
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Google discovered how to insert audio ads into text.
“Innovation”
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There are ads in them now? I didn’t encounter any when using it a few days ago.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.