This thread is super interesting on how LLMs work by using familiar structures/patterns/genre conventions to produce something that appears meaningful (b/c it resembles other, actually meaningful text) but in fact is totally empty.
Annie McClanahan
New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press.
doi.org/10.18710/RNT...
Audio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twen...