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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 4h \ on: 5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Inception Point AI
I played with Notebook LM's podcasting feature a while back. Tricked some friends into thinking it was a real podcast talking about their business.
Personally there's no way I could listen to it but several people I played it for thought it was great. But, I don't think they actually listen to any podcasts.
I have a feeling that the knowledge that it's AI will limit the success regardless of how real it sounds. That is not to say it can't have success.
The main problem is depth, but as @freetx says above, there's a niche area of no-nonsense podcasts and explainer videos that are very doable without needing specific insights.
I'm not sure about the podcast format though - why not just do narrated videos? I made the script for the little joke "podcast" above within a minute and the voice rendering took 280 seconds on my 5 year old MacBook M1 with the small 1.5B vibevoice model (once I figured that it works better to batch it by voice, not try to render it all in 1 shot). Alibaba has released a novel pictures + script to video model that would enable anyone with a 24GB GeForce card to just roll out explainer vids.