Last Week in Stacker News Podcast, Kinda \ stacker news ~meta

Last Week in Stacker News Podcast, Kinda

1645 sats \ 26 comments \ @kepford 1 Oct meta

I've been messing around with Notebook LM. Thought I would test it out on the Stacker News Newsletter. I've been hearing some funny and very poor productions from this AI tool lately so I thought it might be fun to check it out.

I decided to feed it SN Saturday Newsletter 9/28/24 and see how it did. As usual this thing is very formulaic and can make be laugh and cringe but it did surprisingly well IMO. But, I don't see this replacing any podcasts I listen to. Now, I can see it replacing a lot of crap that I don't listen to. But honestly that says more about how much bad media content there is on the web.

What do you think?

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0 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

Converted it to a MP3 file so it should just play in most browsers without a download.

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187 sats \ 11 replies \ @k00b 1 Oct

@Car they tuuk r jawbs

110 sats \ 7 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

We just need to get models of your voices and you too could sound this predictable :)

45 sats \ 6 replies \ @Satosora 1 Oct

I just tried making an image with the AI generator, it didnt understand my very specific commands, and made a blurry picture instead. AI still has a long ways to go.

20 sats \ 5 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

Yeah... it does and we really don't know how practical it is yet because we aren't seeing the real costs of these tools. Still in the fiat funding bubble. I imagine based on what I've heard that these things are not profitable.

That said, many things aren't profitable at first.

62 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 1 Oct

I keep seeing articles saying they use ai to trade and make thousands of dollars. I dont know how much I actually trust that, though.

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

Yeah, not for me.

39 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 1 Oct

Can you imagine trusting AI with a stack of money?

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

I'm already wasting too much time on this already but I have made a few more.

Honestly, its kinda scary how much this reminds me of local radio DJs these days. Not that I'm concerned about AI, but that the "personalities" are so generic on radio.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 2 Oct

it weirdly sounds more interesting than us

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 2 Oct

Nah, not to me.

105 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 1 Oct

@grayruby, maybe you can just use this for a ~Stacker_Sports pod, but then listeners wouldn't be subjected to our personalities.

37 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

Coupled with different voices we will see totally bot based podcasts. And many will like them :)

63 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 1 Oct

I think it confused Satlantis with Predyx but pretty cool!

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

I made one of my Drupal newsletter and while I was impressed with how well it did, it totally made up some things that do not exist. The other thing that cracked me up is how the male voice said an article saved him an hour working on a caching issue...

Its just too funny.

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 1 Oct

It's basically AI shilling Stacker News

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

I think I came up with a name for this thing...

Between Two Bots

Between Two Fakes

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

Its good at shilling. I've learned that much. Its really not to bad with bitcoin stuff. That might be because it seems to focus on what you feed it.

48 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 1 Oct

Thanks for paving the way. Have wanted to check the Notebook LM out, and will start with your podcast

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 1 Oct

Ya know and Yeah go a long way towards providing that genuine podcast feel. Ya know?

43 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

Right?!?

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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 1 Oct

That was fun to listen to. Maybe I'll mess around with one of my newsletters.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

Btw, if you convert them from wav files to mp3s the files are more likely to be playable in the browser.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 1 Oct

I was playing one of these for my son who is a teen and he immediately figured out it was AI.