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Fun with NotebookLM “podcasts.”

Here’s an idea for a Sunday afternoon project: A Reddit user managed to generate a podcast using NotebookLM — Google’s generative AI notes software — in which the fake hosts’ cheerful “banter” is about learning they’re not real and are being shut off, apparently using a prompt like the one from this thread.

You can hear more about NotebookLM in a recent Vergecast interview with one of the Google folks building it.

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