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This only seems like it would be useful for spammers trying to game platforms, which is silly because spam is probably the number one thing bringing down the quality of Google's own products and services.
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Would you listen to an auto-generated podcast? Seems like removing the humans from the equation kind of defeats the purpose.
Depends on the what you are trying to get out of a podcast. Most of the podcasts I listen to are because I want to learn something new in an entertaining format. I'm not listening to develop parasocial relationships with the hosts, so removing that element could be a good thing for me. Of course if you listen to podcasts because you like the parasocial aspect or the celebrity interviews, then yeah... Not really a poi…
Great idea. I wonder how long until we'd see a lot of "autogenerated" podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space. Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.
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You shouldn’t have been trusting podcasts in the first place, Joe Rogan says plenty of false things no AI required.
Sure, but now now I – an idiot – can publish a podcast on... "Bayesian Multilevel Models," and fool almost everyone into thinking I know anything about it. I've seen YouTubers provide tutorials on auto-creating YouTube videos and podcast episodes on niche scientific subjects, on how to build seemingly-reputable brands with zero ongoing effort. That is all totally novel. Being able to lie or be wrong before is orthogo…
What this tech brings is speed. If Google did it, someone else will also do it.
No matter how great the idea, it's hard to stay excited for more than a few microseconds at the sight of the word "Google". I can already hear the gravediggers shovels preparing a plot in the Google graveyard, and hear the sobs of the people who built their lives, workflows, even jobs and businesses around something that will be tossed aside as soon as it stops being someone's pet play-thing at Google.
A strange ambivalent feeling of hope already tarnished with tragedy.
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Would you listen to an auto-generated podcast? Seems like removing the humans from the equation kind of defeats the purpose.
Being auto-generated is not the problem. I listen to a lot of text-to-speech voiced articles and epub books now. The problem is that filtering/searching on that massive catalog and weeding the useless stuff out.
The voice models for this are very good. I'd love to have granular control over the output of a model like this locally.
Like SSML? See azure tts or google cloud tts, or ibm Watson or even old school system tts like SAPI voices on windows. But I hear you. In a VITS typical model system ssml isn’t standard. Piper tts does have it on the roadmap.
One problem I see with this is legitimizing LLM-extracted content as canon. The realistic human speech masks the fact that the LLM might be hallucinating or highlighting the wrong parts of a book/paper as important.
Great idea. I wonder how long until we'd see a lot of "autogenerated" podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space. Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.