TEH 274: AirPod Cameras, Book Scanning, and Digital Outrage: Tech’s Latest Controversies

So my question to you is, prove you're a human.

As we continue to do this, and I just see this happening a lot, over the course of the coming years, it's going to be harder and harder to determine whether or not the podcast you're listening to or whatever you're watching is actually a real human.

It's kind of funny because you've played with Notebook LM too, and they generate podcasts, but their podcasts are... very stereotypical.

It's always two people.

They're always overly excited.

And you can almost always tell.

It's funny because there was another podcast that I was listening to that to me, I was thinking, oh my gosh, this sounds exactly like a Notebook LM podcast.

And I ended up tracing it down, and no, these are two people who just naturally sound like an AI-generated voice, naturally exuberant, and the proof is that there's a video of them talking, and it's clearly not

AI.

They're just eloquent, unlike us.

We'll be like the last.

They'll be like, yeah, Gary and Leo, they're real, because they just um and ah through their entire podcast.

But, yeah.

I've actually...

Yeah, it's getting to be a thing, you know, but also, also there's another like aspect to it, which kind of makes me mad because there are people that are just not really good at talking.

There are people that are not good, can't talk, right? But have something to say.

And AI voices is a really good way to go in that direction.

Oh, absolutely.

And I think if like...

My voice isn't as good as it used to be.

Like if I have a lot of work to do, like I'm working on a course or maybe I like try to do like two videos and then we talk and then I've got something else going on.

My voice is broken by the end of the day.

And it doesn't sound right.

And it's all dry.

And it's just, yeah.