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Fake AI “podcasters” are reviewing my book and it’s freaking me out


NotebookLM's "Audio Summaries" show a more personable future for AI-generated content.

Google's NotebookLM launched over a year ago as "a virtual research assistant that can summarize facts, explain complex ideas, and brainstorm new connections—all based on the sources you select." But Wharton AI professor Ethan Mollick correctly referred to the style as a "podcast" in a recent social media post sharing a NotebookLM Audio Overview of his book. Small, overzealous errors like these—and a few key bits of the book left out of the podcast entirely—would give me pause if I were trying to use a NotebookLM summary as the basis for a scholarly article or piece of journalism.

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