Category: Culture / Digital Culture
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How to Generate an AI Podcast Using Google’s NotebookLM
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A little-known AI notebook tool from Google is going viral for its Audio Overviews that mimic the speech cadence of podcasters. Here’s how to try it out.
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How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children
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I kept seeing more and more utterly absurd, hugely viral home remodeling videos on TikTok. So I tracked down where they actually come from.
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Chat Podcasts Rule the Market—and Always Will
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“That appointment—that relationship—is everything,” says audio executive Eric Eddings. But that doesn’t mean the industry isn’t innovating.
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Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up
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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.
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Lionsgate’s New Deal Is a Test of Hollywood’s Relationship With AI
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The studio behind the John Wick, Hunger Games, and Twilight franchises just made a deal with an artificial intelligence startup to use its back catalog to build a custom AI model. It could be a tipping point.
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Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI
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This week, Reddit solved the long-running Celebrity Number Six mystery, but it almost got derailed thanks to accusations that the missing piece was made with AI.
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James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader Has Already Been Immortalized With AI
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James Earl Jones died Monday at the age of 93. But long before he did, he gave Lucasfilm permission to recreate his iconic Darth Vader voice for shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose
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Last weekend several authors cut ties with National Novel Writing Month after the nonprofit issued a statement seemingly greenlighting the use of AI in writing.
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He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing
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Mike Rianda’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines is a sci-fi comedy about a family fighting back against Silicon Valley tech. As animators gear up to battle Hollywood studios, it’s becoming a fable.
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His Galaxy Wolf Art Kept Getting Ripped Off. So He Sued—and Bought a Home
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When his galaxy wolf illustration was stolen by countless online stores, artist Jonas Jödicke decided to fight back.