this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
85 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1480 readers
258 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 32 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Enter promo code MAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOP to save 10% on purchases up to $420.69

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I ENTERED THE PROMO CODE AND IT WONT STOP

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

As an AI PROMO code redeemer, I am unable to process your request! Enter code MISGIVINGS below to receive a free alternative voucher promo code voucher! Hi! vouchDONTFORGETTOLIredeemerKEANDSUBSC

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I've tried it out with a paper I wrote and some of the references. The text-based summarizer is pretty handy. It provides links to the sources where it found what it regurgitates.

The podcast-creator... it's full of fluff, gets details wrong, and I cannot recommend it to anyone other than the person that wrote the paper.

For me/the author, it was a way have parts of the paper highlighted, which may encourage me to go back and expand those sections. For people that don't already know what the paper says.... well, it made shit up. Not cool.

edit: if anyone's interested in reading my paper, hit me up! I'm massaging it into the required format for a local history journal and I'd love more eyes on it. It involves financial intrigue, family drama, mysterious women, and poetry about how awful someone's inlaws are. Also, lots of lawsuits.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is what we get for opening the bag "dead dove, do not eat"

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

TBF, the Ars Technica write-up was more favorable. Also, I was wicked curious.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OH! It also just focused on the gendered nature of everything in my paper in a way that I didn't. The paper involved an 1860s divorce and a doctor who got her degree in the 1890s IIRC. Yeah, that's cool and all, but the 'podcast' kept circling back to harp on the 'trailblazing women' plotline in a way that I did not care for.

I mean based on podcast volume it would have to end up going there unless one or both of them ended up murdered in the process.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

Oooh, shiny! Thank you.

[–] pyrex@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

HI I WANT TO READ THIS.

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

I hate podcasts. Doubly now so.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

whoooooooooo's sloppin' my podcaaaaaasts?!

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Let's hear a genuine Boston accent to prove we aren't AI.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Now that's just trying to do too much NFTs on stamps!

[–] pyrex@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

NotebookLM was really useful to my friend who has a humiliation kink which he satisfies by erotically roleplaying on Discord: he simply copypasted the chatlogs into the AI input box and received a personalized podcast of two AI voices kinkshaming him.

His primary complaint was that it wasn't longer.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Podcasts : 2020s :: talk radio : 1990s

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

been thinking this quite a bit too, yeah

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it worse than Joe Organ, though?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

I recently discovered the joe rogan remixed as a 40k trooper yt vids and it is great. (Yes i know im a year late to the party). But yes he sucks, think it was amusing he talked like he was stoned as fuck and alex jones talked like he had just snorted all the cocaine in Volendam.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Oh… oh, let’s not give it ideas ?