We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
“Creative people have used NotebookLM to create ‘Histories of Mysteries’ podcasts out of Wikipedia pages, and to produce little career pep talks out of resumes. One person got the AI podcast hosts to have an existential meltdown where they realize they’re not real. Another got the AI to make a podcast about the words poop and fart written 1,000 times…[researchers who graded NotebookLM’s work] mostly gave the podcasts a ‘C’ grade because it didn’t know what to focus on.” —
Tags:
AI,
AI audio,
generative AI,
Google,
NotebookLM,
podcasts
