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Bruce G Honda's avatar

I’ve tried the notebookLM podcast feature and it sounds believable but seems to hallucinate on key facts and sometimes hard to correct as the prompt evolves (note to self: don’t let podcast get too long, makes prompt ‘adjustment’ iteration, time consuming). Same with the CoPilot portrait generator. It had an idea of what I looked like and fine tuning it seemed hopeless. It said it made my nose narrower but it wasn’t perceptible. I gave up wondering what this “corporate tool”just did to productivity? This reminds me of an intern testing an early voice to command on Lotus 1-2-3 cursor positioning turned to cursing: “up”, “down” , “no left, other left, LEFT damn it” Lol and now we’ve got Alexa+.

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Stephen Pao's avatar

Agree on the NotebookLM podcasts, the hallucinations, and the inability to easy correct them. I scrapped a blog post on this describing my NotebookLM experience when I used it to summarize what was going on with our condo HVAC system. Because of the factual problems with the AI, our construction defects attorney advised me not to post it.

I haven’t tried the CoPilot portrait generator! I also haven’t received an early access notification yet for Alexa+ !

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