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No time to read? Google’s new AI will turn anything into an NPR segment (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Powderhorn to c/technology

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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 edited the title because people thought this was about actual podcasts. It just generates conversational audio about the content.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sometimes they just do research. Like when their employees made transformers and nothing came of them until Open AI capitalized on it.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They make cool stuff, but they are ultimately an advertising company (as in that's their main source of revenue). So by all means enjoy the cool stuff, just proceed with caution and of course assume nothing is permanent!

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I have a feeling this experiment would sooner get the axe than have ads injected. There was initially a waiting list, but just a few days in it was completely open to the public.