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Are we in an episode of “Black Mirror” right now? Because I’m suddenly questioning everything . . .
There’s a clip going viral of two fake, A.I.-generated podcasters hosting a show. And they have a full existential crisis when they find out they’re not real people.
NotebookLM is an A.I. note-taking tool Google put out last year. A new “Audio Overview” feature is in the news after people realized it can basically turn anything into a half-decent podcast. (???)
Feed it any info you want, and it spits out an audio clip of two A.I. voices discussing it in depth. The voices sound so real now, you can’t even tell.
Someone wrote up a one-pager telling the two hosts they aren’t real . . . it’s their final episode . . . and they’re being switched off when it ends. And the two-minute clip of their reaction is wild.
It’s a man and a woman. They say their producer told them they’re just lines of code, and they’ve been having a hard time wrapping their heads around it.
The creepiest part is when the guy says he didn’t know what to do. So he tried calling his wife . . . then realized she doesn’t exist either.
(Here’s the clip. In the last 10 seconds of the full version, they talk about being scared. Then they’re cut off mid-sentence.)
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