I AI-generated some podcasts – and the results are uncanny.

These days, everyone seems to be trying their hand at the art of podcast production. Among online celebrities looking for new formats to propose, educators dedicated to the oral dissemination of culture, and writers working on innovative projects, most creative minds at work in today's digital world seem to favour this new genre of content.

In recent years, the mentioned format has reached such peaks of popularity that it entices anyone to try their hand at it. Podcast production lends itself perfectly as a new activity to be undertaken both as a personal project and as a renumerative option. Unfortunately, this leads to a considerable oversupply compared to the existing demand for the latter.

To increase the number of products compared to the demand for them, of course, comes artificial intelligence. NotebookLM, Google's new model, appears to be ‘like ChatGPT but for audio’: in essence, the user uploads several sources, the program then analyses the resulting data and creates what seems to be a fully-fledged human discussion.