AI-Generated Audio Is Entering the Podcast World

If you were intrigued—or disturbed—by the artificial intelligence
podcast on your Spotify Wrapped, you may wonder how AI audio works.
Audio Overview is a feature of the tool NotebookLM, released by
Google, that allows for the creation of short podcasts with AI
“hosts” summarizing information. But questions remain about the
accuracy, usefulness and environmental impacts of this application.
Host Rachel Feltman and associate news editor Allison Parshall are
joined by Google Labs’ editorial director Steven Johnson and AI
researchers Anjana Susarla and Emily Bender to assess the promise
of this buzzy tech. Recommended reading: Google’s Project Green
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