Two AI bots walk into a studio & talk about Gus

What happens if you feed a webpage on Gus to an AI audio chat generator?

I just gave a link to this Gus website page to Google Notebook and … Bang! Fifteen minutes later … it came up with this podcast chat between 2 ‘AI Americans’:

Listen to it here

It’s remarkably ‘real’ albeit a little too ‘USA’, plastic and mannered.

Obviously the AI relies on basic written content but it is incredible how easy it is too produce just by feeding the AI a single, arguably well-written, webpage.

Would this AI squeeze out and take the jobs of journalists, producers, sound engineers, editors & podcast interviewers? Maybe for those who do basic superficial branding for mass consumption.

I note I am strongly against AI stealing writer’s texts, images and audio to train LLM models without proper compensation, accountability and attribution … and strongly against AI generated texts and images to be used to create artwork or fiction. But it is tempting to use this as a useful tool to promote your book, if you write good copy to input into the AI. That’s the problem. AI will eliminate a lot of run of the mill jobs, the type of jobs that people in the early stage of their careers take to pay the bills and learn the ropes before moving to bigger and better roles. How are people going to learn their craft if we delegate the basic tasks of creative production to AI? I guess we’ll adapt. I guess…

I don’t think the AI podcast is half as good as the live interviews on Gus I had with Melanie Oliveiro on CNA938 or The Asian Bookshelf with Devika & Tracey, but I’m sure there is a place for this AI generated audio chat. It will be used to mass market books at a cheaper cost than journalists and podcasters.

I am going to feed it a page of some webpages promoting Singlit books and see what happens. I think I’ll feed it a QLRS editorial and see what AI does with that too!!

Watch this space.