Two AI bots walk into a studio & talk about Gus

What happens if you feed a webpage on Gus to an AI audio chat generator?

I just gave a link to this Gus website page to Google Notebook and … Bang! Fifteen minutes later … it came up with this podcast chat between 2 ‘AI Americans’:

Listen to it here

It’s remarkably ‘real’ albeit a little too ‘USA’, plastic and mannered.

Obviously the AI relies on basic written content but it is incredible how easy it is too produce just by feeding the AI a single, arguably well-written, webpage.

Would this AI squeeze out and take the jobs of journalists, producers, editors & podcast interviewers? Maybe for those who do basic superficial branding for mass consumption.

I note I am strongly against AI stealing writer’s texts, images and audio to train LLM models without proper compensation, accountability and attribution … and strongly against AI generated texts and images to be used to create artwork or fiction. But this is a useful tool to promote your book, if you write good copy to input into the AI.

I don’t think it’s half as good as the live interviews on Gus I had with Melanie Oliveiro on CNA938 or The Asian Bookshelf with Devika & Tracey, but I’m sure there is a place for this AI generated audio chat. It will be used to mass market books at a cheaper cost than journalists and podcasters.

I am going to feed it a page of some webpages promoting Singlit books and see what happens. I think I’ll feed it a QLRS editorial and see what AI does with that too!!

Watch this space.

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