I can't resist sharing an AI-generated podcast created with Google's NotebookLM. I simply pasted in this blog's address and after a few minutes there was a podcast of 8 minutes in which 2 people with American accents left no cliche unused whilst highlighting some of my recent posts.
On the plus side, they do provide mostly accurate information about upcoming conferences, some resources and an award that I'd recently blogged. Some of their comments are rather nice, and it is good at giving a non-expert view on information literacy matters, which could help explain why IL was an interesting topic.
On the minus side: they can't pronounce "LILAC" (seriously! it's even a real word!), and instead invent something called the Information Literacy Association; some of their lighthearted banter is (IMHO) painful/boring; and I got the impression they are pretending to be interested, so that curiosity and enthusiasm that you get in the best podcasts wasn't really there. But then, they are AI!
The AI-generated episode description was "The source is a blog called "Information Literacy Weblog," maintained by Sheila Webber. It features a collection of posts about information literacy, covering topics such as upcoming conferences, new publications, and recent research. The posts highlight events, articles, and resources related to information literacy across various sectors, including academic libraries, schools, and the public. The blog also showcases the use of artificial intelligence in libraries, data literacy, and other emerging topics in information science."
In fact the most useful thing, for me, was the idea that I could do weekly few-minutes overviews of what's on my blog. I've been wondering how to promote it on media that isn't X/Twitter, as I don't want to spam everywhere every day, and this could be a good solution. Watch this space!
Anyway, here it is: https://digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/AI+Generated+podcast/1_88mihabt
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