AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google’s NotebookLM
Published online on May 21, 2026
Abstract
Media, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
This paper analyses AI-generated podcasts produced by Google’s NotebookLM, which generates audio podcasts where two chatty AI hosts discuss whichever documents a user uploads. While AI-generated podcasts have been discussed as tools, for instance in ...
This paper analyses AI-generated podcasts produced by Google’s NotebookLM, which generates audio podcasts where two chatty AI hosts discuss whichever documents a user uploads. While AI-generated podcasts have been discussed as tools, for instance in ...