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Uncovering Online Surveillance: A Deep Dive with Google's NotebookLM AI

A podcast created with academic and NGO research, commercial documents, with audio generated by Google NotebookLM

While researching my previous post “Slamming the Door on Google Account Surveillance”, I uploaded multiple source documents to Google’s NotebokkLM AI tool.The AI was helpful in providing me a braod view of online surveillance.

A sampling of the online surveillance sources I uploaded:

A fascinating option presently available in NotebookLM is the capability to generate audio in a podcast format. The tool has the ability to accept a specific prompt on what to cover in the podcast and it generates a pair of AI voices discussing the topic as if real people were interacting with each other. The results are impressive!

I downloaded stock images and videos from Pixabay.com to use as illustration for the audio and included a smattering of text titles for emphasis during playback. I’m quite pleased with the discussion and and found it helpful to cement the concepts for me.

Listen carefully to the voices and speaking patterns. They are quite human and believable. I have encountered at least one other writer on Substack attempting to pass off NotebookLM audio as their own. If you hear these same voices, rest assured that Google’s NotebookLM was used to create it. If the author trys to claim the work as their own original audio, you can be assured the claim is entirely without merit.

Have a listen and let me know how I can improve the video in the comments.

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