- Google has updated Notebooklm once again
- Now you can search the web and find sources for you
- It is easier for ever to create an ai podcast
Google has updated Notebooklm, its practice learning tool and its creator of Podcast AI, so that it is easier than ever adding sources. You can now “search the web” to obtain information sources that become an ai podcast, a mental map or on which you can answer questions.
Notebooklm is designed to help you learn anything by decomposing large volumes of information in easily accessible reports and podcasts.
However, a genius is not needed to realize that his podcasts are so good that they could easily replace the hosts of podcasts who literally speak of any subject, and that is where the new characteristic of Google leaves me in a moral dilemma.
Indicate your sources
Since I executed a Tai Chi podcast, I decided to try the new function asking Notebooklm to see what sources I would find on the theme of Tai Chi, and I was quite surprised by the articles he found.
There were some academic articles about Tai Chi there, as I would expect, along with articles from several Tai Chi websites, but also a Reddit discussion that offers several perspectives on Tai Chi’s spirituality and a YouTube video.
Notebooklm takes all these sources and produces several media for you, including a general audio description (it is basically a podcast) that is deeply immersed in your subject.
It made me reflect if all those writers of Reddit’s articles and commentators were happy that they were using their thoughts as fuel for a podcast generated by AI.
Credit where
It is not as if Google has added new skills to Notebooklm, you could always add any source it would like, but at least I had to add it manually.
Making the network actively explodes a cured list of sources for you, without really asking for permission from any of these sources, and then turning them into other types of media, it feels a bit questionable.
If you are using Notebooklm purely as planned, that is, to learn on a subject, I do not see a problem, but if those podcasts that are based on the work of other people, for example, they are used in other ways, perhaps as income generating podcasts, that does not always feel justified.
