Bonus: Alex Hirsch is the creator of Gravity Falls
I don’t recognize your name and I’m going to be around, so I’m not going to instantly delete it. You need to provide an archived link for this, Rule 6. Anyone can help, you all have an hour. Next time I will delete automatically.
Thank you for helping out.
On the instant I knew this was a satire.
Then I looked who the OP was.
Fucking can’t make this shit up.
I dont get it. What would th epodcat actually talk about?
Garbage in garbage out
Likely all anyone puts in the calendar is “Simon’s basketball game” so it will at best reference basketball and Simon playing it and have some fake podcaster say, “And don’t forget about that basketball game at 8pm!”, and at worst invent/hallucinate tons of details it could never know.
One thing that worries me is even the c level executives offer the worst ideas when it comes to AI and their own AI products. Like, AI can manage to do a lot of useful stuff, but also a lot of terrible use cases… This being one. It takes 1 minute to glance at your week’s schedule. An AI podcast invites the worst kind of hallucinations. Whenever you give it a tiny bit of information and expect more back than you gave it like upscaling, you invite the worst hallucinations and inaccuracies.
The fact that they’re still struggling to make it sound relevant means they don’t even believe in it as much as they’re trying to sell it. Bubble is bound to pop soon with this sort of weird behavior… Seems like a year ago they were talking about the machine god being here by now, and now they’re like “hey did you know this thing can make a fake podcast?” Yeah I fucking knew that, it was a stupid use case 2 years ago and it’s a stupid use case now.
It’s funny, my job has been pushing AI hard for a couple years now… So I’ve been using it on them. I had it write my year end review 2 years ago, because I absolutely hate that I have to do that rather than my manager, and it was all bullshit, but I got a good raise. Last year I tried to be honest, and ended up half assing it, but because I was doing well and everyone knew it (so arguably I shouldn’t need a year end review in the first place) I got a promotion and another big raise. Now I’m using it to write my goals, another thing that I hate having to do myself, but the problem is, by now I don’t want to put any effort into it, so it’s half assing it, and what it put together sounds great, but there’s no way to measure it, therefore no way to achieve the goals… By the time I put the effort into giving it the data it needs to make something useful, I could have just done it myself…
Ever stumble across one of those totally AI YouTube video, with the professional sounding voice that pronounced words oddly, or emphasizes phrases in a weird way? They go on and on about some subject without really saying anything, making empty pronouncements with florid language?
Like that. The podcast equivalent of flavorless gummy bears.
Doesn’t matter so long as Altman just got geographic time stamps of where you your spouse your children and what activities they like to participate in at all times.
That’s what I was thinking about. In theory there could be a cool idea here. But using AI to do it would just give shitty results. But you could actually do a little research and find a few short articles or stories about things your kid is interested in, and then feed them into a decent TTS and edit it together like a podcast. Then where they would normally take a pause for an ad read have a little shout out wishing your kid a happy birthday or wishing them luck on their exams or competition or whatever. I think it could actually be pretty neat, and give you something to chat about while you listen, and having the little personalized messages would feel like magic to the kid, because it’s kind of like getting a shout out on Radio/Television. It can be exciting and make you feel bigger than just your small social bubble. It’s exciting to have a little 30 seconds of fame.
But obviously Altman is just grasping at straws to shill his product, and hasn’t put this much thought into it.
Right? It’s not like the kid’s soccer game is part of the AI’s programming, it won’t know anything about it that you don’t tell it. It can’t go over who they’re playing against, or give their record so far, or provide any other new information about it, so what exactly is it going to say?
Then the birthday will still be “coming up” every day until the day itself arrives, so what is there to say about that that would be interesting and new on a daily drive?
That just leaves “some news,” at which point you might as well turn on the radio, or put on a real podcast.
“Ha! Jokes on you as my kids won’t even talk to me!”, he cried into his buckwheat pillow.
There was a Scary Door episode about this.
Calling something out to be the plot of a fictional television series inside of a fictional universe and television series is wild stuff.
Great way to conduct a new wave of unregulated psychological experimentation to determine whether or not you can induce narcissism in a developing mind…
Especially if they don’t understand what’s going on. Imagine growing up thinking that your birthday or school sports game is newsworthy on a stranger’s podcast. Every day all they talk about is you on the radio.
-“Little benny sat on the bench again, because he’s a little looser, now over to Annies catastrophic math results.”
I would see the face of the idiot that suggested that (which probably doesn’t even exists)
Anyone who would willingly listen to an AI-generated podcast is a person I have zero interest in ever interacting with. I feel like once you learn someone is actually doing that, a serious intervention is required.
“super cool life hack… If your kids are disappointing because you’re in constant fear of being found out to be a fraud, with your kids being walking reminders of your failed life, just stop talking to your kids. Tell my lying machine that IT is your kid now, and it won’t judge you!”
When I first read this I didn’t think anything of it cause I thought it was some rando
Now I’m realizing it’s Sam Altman 😭
Same, I thought it was some linkedin lunatic 😨
It is
chatgpt solving reptilian problems that nobody has
peter thiel is anagram for reptile, and sam altman, satan’s lamb.
peterthiel
thereptilesamaltman
satanlammThe first kinda checks out, but the second definitely doesn’t. If you interpret it as German, Satan-Lamm kinda works if you ignore the fact that it should be Satanslamm in that composition.
Le Sam Altman = Me Mall Satan
Me Mall Santa similarly works
Did chatgpt tell you those are anagrams?
But for am I supposed to display my dominance over my children by asking them for information?
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This is the sort of weird, performative rage from the Left that helps no one and selfishly serves only themselves.
Quoting it because this is the most surreal take I ever heard.
“Hey y’all these leftists and their… Talking to the kids! Amirite?!”
Furthermore, nothing about the OP was political — unless being an attentive parent is divisive and left wing.
I knew it was going to be deleted. I just had to quote it because of how ridiculous it was.
This is what psychopaths think parenting is.
These people really have no moat.
This is a totally shit feature but, but you could do this with Qwen3-tts.
Their moat was supposed to be overwhelming compute, which they said was a necessity to produce frontier models and that only an American monopoly could produce. Three years later it’s not a monopoly but an oligopoly, the diminishing returns on compute are devastating, and China is humiliating them with models that aren’t really even focused on the English language.
