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    Google can now generate a fake AI podcast of your search results.

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    1. nacorom on

      NotebookLM is undoubtedly one of Google’s best implementations of generative AI technology, giving you the ability to explore documents and notes with a Gemini AI model. Last year, Google added the ability to generate so-called “audio overviews” of your source material in NotebookLM. Now, Google has brought those fake AI podcasts to search results as a test. Instead of clicking links or reading the AI Overview, you can have two nonexistent people tell you what the results say.

      This feature is not currently rolling out widely—it’s available in search labs, which means you have to manually enable it. Anyone can opt in to the new Audio Overview search experience, though. If you join the test, you’ll quickly see the embedded player in Google search results. However, it’s not at the top with the usual block of AI-generated text. Instead, you’ll see it after the first few search results, below the “People also ask” knowledge graph section.

    2. D0MiN0H on

      even more llm nonsense nobody asked for, google’s fall from grace should be studied. no one uses it for its quality anymore, just because it was the best search engine for so long in the past.

    3. Farados55 on

      I think that the phenomena of humans reading less should be studied. I know some people are more comfortable being visual learners or audio learners, but reading is still a fundamental part of the human experience. Taking the shortcut to just listening everything so that you can multitask must be less efficient than focusing on learning the concept, I’d think.

    4. CoffeeSubstantial851 on

      So we have text to speech reading the fucking search results and the voice changes from male to female? Wtf is google doing?

    5. mochafiend on

      Just because something can be done, doesn’t mean it should. Is anyone working on this stuff even asking what the point of this is?

    6. ThrowAwayOkK-_- on

      Wow you mean I can learn something slower by listening to it instead of instantly knowing it by looking at it? It’s going to eat up even more time than text-to-speech because it will contain dead air, exclamations, and bloviating “personality”??

      COOL!!!

    7. canadianlongbowman on

      I mean this directed at Google: who cares? Who is going to listen to this beyond 2 minutes of initial novelty?

    8. RedofPaw on

      This has been around for months. You can feed it any old nonsense and it will create a podcast where two people enthusiastically talk about it.

      Give it a document with the word poopoo written 1000 times and you can have a podcast extolling it’s virtues.

    9. Rhawk187 on

      I think they’ve been able to do that for a while with Powerpoint slide decks. I thought about doing it for my class, but I wasn’t sure how well it would work. Maybe next semester.

    10. Actual__Wizard on

      Wow cool man! More AI slop in my face! That’s exactly what I didn’t ask for or want, and have no need for at all.

    11. condivergence on

      I just wanna know if I can put hot water in an acrylic bottle. I don’t wanna listen to a frickin podcast about it.

    12. Granum22 on

      You what would be nice. If Google could generate search results that were actually the thing I was searching for .

    13. mczolly on

      I’ve tried NotebookLM and it just feels like a podcast that tries to steal your time with stretched out content. I don’t know who enjoys that, and it absolutely defeats the purpose for me in a quick Google search