<story><title>Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio</title><url>https://illuminate.google.com/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freefaler</author><text>Great idea.
I wonder how long until we&amp;#x27;d see a lot of &amp;quot;autogenerated&amp;quot; podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space.&lt;p&gt;Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hliyan</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m conflicted about this. On one hand, it makes content more accessible to a larger audience. On the other hand, it leverages copyrighted material without crediting or compensating creators, potentially puts those same creators out of work, and finally, reduces the likelihood of more such (human) creators arising in the future. My worry is that a few generations hence, human beings will forget many skills like this, and if model collapse occurs due to LLMs ingesting their own data over successive iterations, future generations will be in for a difficult time. Reminiscent of Asimov&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;The Feeling of Power&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio</title><url>https://illuminate.google.com/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freefaler</author><text>Great idea.
I wonder how long until we&amp;#x27;d see a lot of &amp;quot;autogenerated&amp;quot; podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space.&lt;p&gt;Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallinditch</author><text>Wondercraft have been offering this service for a while, and produce some of their own auto-generated podcasts including the Hacker News Recap which does an excellent job of summarizing the most engaged posts on HN.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wondercraft.ai&amp;#x2F;our-podcasts&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wondercraft.ai&amp;#x2F;our-podcasts&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>