Anchor Change with Katie Harbath
Impossible Tradeoffs with Katie Harbath
An AI-Generated Podcast Experiment
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An AI-Generated Podcast Experiment

I took my six most popular newsletters and asked Google's Notebook LLM to make a podcast

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If I’m honest, I’m still processing everything. I’m giving myself and others the space to process everything.

But, I still wanted to do a podcast. I have this deep fear that if I don’t stick to a schedule, I’ll fall off the wagon of creating content. It's probably not true, but I like to keep doing things to move forward. Since I had no idea where we would be as a country today, I decided to conduct an experiment I’ve wanted to do for a while for this week’s podcast.

Back in October, Google’s Notebook LLM tool, which uses AI to generate podcasts, went viral because of its quality. I decided to upload my six most popular Anchor Change posts from the last two years and ask it to create a podcast acknowledging that we were two days after Election Day and to look at how technology had impacted our information environment.

Here are the top posts:

  1. Platforms run away from politics and news / July 9, 2023

  2. The Future of our Information Environment / Oct 9, 2024

  3. Zuck’s Letter to Jordan and the Telegram CEO Arrest / Aug 28, 2024

  4. Digging Into Ten Overused Tech Tropes / Apr 3, 2024

  5. Our World in 2025 / Jan 3, 2024

  6. Cambridge Analytica Five Years Later / March 16, 2023

It’s a pretty interesting conversation between the two AI hosts and not too bad. I wish I could have given a longer prompt about what I wanted them to focus on and in what order, but for a first go I’m excited at this possibility to repurpose content in other formats.

Enjoy!

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Anchor Change with Katie Harbath
Impossible Tradeoffs with Katie Harbath
Technology and democracy are at a crossroads. Technology can potentially empower people and make our democracies more responsive. Or technology can be used to manipulate and divide us. Welcome to Impossible Tradeoffs. I’m Katie Harbath. In this weekly podcast, we’ll talk about and analyze the most fascinating headlines. We’ll make predictions about where things are going. And we’ll talk to experts about the challenges we face and how we might look for solutions.