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Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up
The “Pager Protocol” podcast went up hours after exploding pagers and two-way radios killed dozens and injured hundreds in Lebanon last week. How did it do it? Lots of artificial intelligence tools.
Last week, just hours after exploding pagers and two-way radios killed dozens of people in Lebanon and injured hundreds more, a peculiar new show appeared on podcast apps. In the two episodes that have dropped so far, an AI-generated narrator tells the story of the director of a fictional intelligence agency, one of his globe-trotting agents, and a CIA analyst, all of whom are hot on the trail of a large order of pagers purchased by the devious (but thinly described) Crescent Shield terrorist organization. John McDermott, cofounder of Caloroga Shark Media, the company behind the podcast, calls Pager Protocol “a new pinnacle in audio storytelling,” hailing the show for the way it “combines the speed of AI integration with heart-pounding suspense.”
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