Thanks for this awesome report.

Brainstorming sessions - if you have a good group - can be really awesome and trigger you into whole new ways of thinking (just like interacting on low-slop online places like SN or Github can if you can keep an open mind and are willing to pick your battles.)

I noticed a thing on the padlet. It says for your first interaction: "Think about one topic that you would like to learn about". However, that is not how one judges the usability of cognitive solutions. Instead, think about the topic you are most confident about your own knowledge on.

Here's how I tested NotebookLLM back in the day: I fed it a pdf that I authored myself on a controversial topic, and then watched what it made of it and queried it. It was very scary scary to see that it seemingly blended outside popular beliefs into my super awesome non-biased paper that didn't mention some of the statements the "podcast" made and how some of my assertions were transformed into a slippery slope of what people have written on the interwebs. This is why I personally have avoided it since.