Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM", specifically the "Generate a Conversation" function that simulates two podcasters discussing shit?

It's pretty interesting and fun to play with - you can point it at all sorts of content and listen to them chat it up. The most fun I've had with it was having "them" discuss a random pubg game I played ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZuDcdlmBkk ) but there are countless ways to have fun with it.

Today I decided to point it at my dove-general.sdt file, that hasn't been purged since mid/late 2021. The AI gets a bit confused over certain things (ie it thinks "DoveNet" is the BBS, and that it's only been around since 2021) but that could be corrected if I improved my prompts when generating the conversation (I basically just said "summarize this archive of bbs posts").

It's quite entertaining to listen to the AI podcasters discuss "difficult" personalities like MRO and Gamgee LOL. Anyhow, if you're interested in listening to this particular summary, here is the link and how the AI summarized the content:

These excerpts are from a collection of messages exchanged on various bulletin board systems (BBSes), primarily within the DoveNet network. The conversations cover a wide array of topics, including COVID-19, vaccines, and mask mandates, often expressing differing opinions and political viewpoints. Discussions also focus on technology, such as retro computing, hardware, and operating systems, with users sharing their experiences and preferences. Additionally, societal observations, personal anecdotes, and humorous remarks weave throughout the exchanges. The community members debate various subjects while exhibiting a shared nostalgia for BBS culture itself. The collection overall, paints a picture of online discourse during a specific period, reflecting contemporary concerns and interests within a community valuing open discussion and shared history.

Link to audio: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/00a2346e-99b9-49f6-af80-f71821e9512a/aud io

(let me know if that link doesn't work - i made it public but you likely need a google account to access it)

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Crushed to All on Thu Mar 06 2025 10:38 am

Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM", specifically the "Generate a Conversation" function that simulates two podcasters discussing shit?

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav --
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:59 pm

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.w

Haha, it's got those B-B-Zesses just right!

"Those clowns in Congress did it again! What a bunch of clowns."
"How does it keep up with the news like that?"

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** On Thursday 06.03.25 - 10:38, Crushed wrote to All:

Link to audio: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/ 00a2346e-99b9-49f6-af80-f71821e9512 a/aud io

(let me know if that link doesn't work - i made it public
but you likely need a google account to access it)

Worked for me.

Hilarious..

DoveNet = pronounced Duh Veh Net.

MRO, Denn = disruptive
phinigan = resident comedian.

online text-based community vs social media = like a fine home-
cooked meal vs a fast-food drive-thru.

The AI product is fascinating, and disturbing.


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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:59 pm

Howdy,

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

Was this all AI generated? Wow if it was...


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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: deon to Digital Man on Fri Mar 07 2025 05:04 pm

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

Was this all AI generated? Wow if it was...

Yes, by Google's NotebookML.
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:59 pm

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Crushed to All on Thu Mar 06 2025 10:38 am

Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM", specifically the "Generate a Conversation" function that simulates two podcasters discussing shit?

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

is it any better than you and deuce?
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Ogg to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 07:18 pm

00a2346e-99b9-49f6-af80-f71821e9512 a/aud io

(let me know if that link doesn't work - i made it public
but you likely need a google account to access it)

Worked for me.

Hilarious..

DoveNet = pronounced Duh Veh Net.

MRO, Denn = disruptive

phinigan = resident comedian.

who?

online text-based community vs social media = like a fine home-
cooked meal vs a fast-food drive-thru.

The AI product is fascinating, and disturbing.

yeah it's disturbing stuff. it's 1000x more polished than most podcasts that i've heard.

There's a bunch of pronunciation issues and my name is said wrong, so that
will be the tell for now with this AI stuff.

I'd like to see what exactly was inputted into the engine.

I sure killed it with the dicknose comment. Then they mentioned that drug addict guy Tim Smith who got 'donations' from sysops years ago chiming in.

I'm pretty sure that dicknose thing is the meanest thing i've said.

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: deon to Digital Man on Fri Mar 07 2025 05:04 pm

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:59 pm

Howdy,

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

Was this all AI generated? Wow if it was...

yeah it's pretty impressive. i'd like to see what was exactly inputted.
mp3 version
http://irc.bbses.info:9090/02vkoTo80/file_5719.mp3

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Digital Man on Fri Mar 07 2025 02:41 am

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

is it any better than you and deuce?

<shrug> It made me laugh.
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to MRO on Fri Mar 07 2025 01:08 am

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Digital Man on Fri Mar 07 2025 02:41 am

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

is it any better than you and deuce?

<shrug> It made me laugh.

it's certainly remarkable and scary. i think ai generated content is going to take over everything. i have seen it on instagram with those thirst trap girls in bikinis. they can do videos with ai generated boobs and faces over a real person and it looks almost real.

i was just worried about voice duplication, but they could create an ai video of someone comitting a crime or anything.
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Ogg on Fri Mar 07 2025 02:56 am

I'm pretty sure that dicknose thing is the meanest thing i've said.

Sometimes you really live up to your acronym of Mean, Rude and Obnoxius (MRO). Keeps things interesting lol...

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Lonewolf to MRO on Fri Mar 07 2025 07:52 am

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Ogg on Fri Mar 07 2025 02:56 am

I'm pretty sure that dicknose thing is the meanest thing i've said.

Sometimes you really live up to your acronym of Mean, Rude and Obnoxius (MRO). Keeps things interesting lol...

Lonewolf

my name is -oblivious- but i used the name mroblivious1bmf to secure
the username with email and social media sites because it was unique.
then on irc i trimmed it down to mro just to make it easier to type. And....anybody i was mean to had it coming. but a lot of time i was just fucking with them.

same thing goes with everything i do online. if someone thinks they are an internet detective and try to look me up they only see what
i want them to see. my real usernames are far different.


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Crushed wrote to All <=-

Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM", specifically the "Generate a Conversation" function that simulates two podcasters discussing shit?

Nice, now we don't have to create podcasts, and we can create LLM podcast
listeners? :)

This is pretty interesting.

"The usernames hint at the potential for conflict..."

Today I decided to point it at my dove-general.sdt file, that hasn't
been purged since mid/late 2021. The AI gets a bit confused over
certain things (ie it thinks "DoveNet" is the BBS, and that it's only
been around since 2021) but that could be corrected if I improved my prompts when generating the conversation (I basically just said
"summarize this archive of bbs posts").

How did it read the .sdt file? Or did you export it to text?


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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Ogg on Fri Mar 07 2025 02:56 am

I'd like to see what exactly was inputted into the engine.

Like I said, I just pointed it to my "dove-general.sdt" file from my bbs. The first entry from that file was Sun Oct 24 2021 (I just checked now) and the last entry would have been 30 minutes or so before I made yesterday's post. NotebookLM was rejecting the file (with no reason) so I used a text splitter to split it into 10 parts, then uploaded each part without issue.

As for my prompt, you don't need to use one, you can just click "generate conversation" but I think I used a custom prompt where i just said "this is an archive of messages from DoveNet from 2021 to present, summarize" (or something very similar, I can't recall my exact prompt). Prompts are limited to 500 characters.

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Re: Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Crushed on Fri Mar 07 2025 07:00 am

Today I decided to point it at my dove-general.sdt file, that hasn't been purged since mid/late 2021. The AI gets a bit confused over certain things (ie it thinks "DoveNet" is the BBS, and that it's only been around since 2021) but that could be corrected if I improved my prompts when generating the conversation (I basically just said "summarize this archive of bbs posts").

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Lonewolf on Fri Mar 07 2025 08:29 am

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Lonewolf to MRO on Fri Mar 07 2025 07:52 am

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Ogg on Fri Mar 07 2025 02:56 am

I'm pretty sure that dicknose thing is the meanest thing i've said.

i was messing with it uploading printouts from msg areas and
website urls to sway the opinion of the AI.

i'm not sure where this came from but there's one section
where it says "MRO: Champion of Synchronet and DOVE-Net"

https://i.imgur.com/EE2RpOx.png
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Digital Man on Fri Mar 07 2025 03:41 am

it's certainly remarkable and scary. i think ai generated content is going to take over everything. i have seen it on instagram with those thirst trap

AI huh? And I thought they were just stupid...

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Fri Mar 07 2025 03:48 pm

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to Digital Man on Fri Mar 07 2025 03:41 am

it's certainly remarkable and scary. i think ai generated content is going to take over everything. i have seen it on instagram with those thirst trap

AI huh? And I thought they were just stupid...

i guess this is kinda new but there's this guy running an instagram,etc page with a woman. her boobs are slightly different sizes in every video and something just doesn't look right. then he has an onlyfans. there's also a bot that replies to people. people were calling him out on the stuff. if you have a good enough eye it's obvious there's real time ai doctoring in the videos. it's beyond filters

there's also this joke page on fb for a fictional gas station. one of their workers is all AI. https://i.imgur.com/hTzhL0H.png
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Re: Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Crushed on Fri Mar 07 2025 07:00 am

How did it read the .sdt file? Or did you export it to text?

It looks like the posts are saved as plain text in the .sdt files, with some things in between the posts.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 08 2025 08:48 am

Re: Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Crushed on Fri Mar 07 2025 07:00 am

How did it read the .sdt file? Or did you export it to text?

It looks like the posts are saved as plain text in the .sdt files, with some things in between the posts.

It'd be better to export the message text, with headers (metadata). A lot of context would be lost from just parsing the .sdt file.
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** On Friday 07.03.25 - 02:56, MRO wrote to Ogg:

There's a bunch of pronunciation issues and my name is said
wrong, so that will be the tell for now with this AI stuff.

And the correct pronunciation is?

I thought it was interesting that it commented on most of your
posts being in lowercase.


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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Ogg to MRO on Sun Mar 09 2025 05:08 am

There's a bunch of pronunciation issues and my name is said
wrong, so that will be the tell for now with this AI stuff.

And the correct pronunciation is?

i already said.

I thought it was interesting that it commented on most of your
posts being in lowercase.

i just do that to piss off nick andre. he's a lower case guy (short) so i do it for him.

I didn't hear that part in the 'podcast'. It's not in the transcript. where do you see this?

https://pastebin.com/EA9GTMrW

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 14:59:55

Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM", specifically
the "Generate a Conversation" function that simulates two podcasters
discussing shit?

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

Wow man.. thats just crazy amazing stuff right there.. wonder what MRO thinks about it??
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:59 pm

Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM", specifically the "Generate a Conversation" function that simulates two podcasters discussing shit?

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

This is amazing.

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: The Lizard Master to Digital Man on Fri Mar 14 2025 06:00 am

Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Digital Man to Crushed on Thu Mar 06 2025 02:59 pm

Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM", specifically the "Generate a Conversation" function that simulates two podcasters discussing shit?

Check this out: https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

This is amazing.

i took a bunch of posts and put them in a text file and imported it and then they talked about me like i was the good guy.
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: MRO to The Lizard Master on Fri Mar 14 2025 10:40 am

https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

This is amazing.

i took a bunch of posts and put them in a text file and imported it and then they talked about me like i was the good guy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xVCb8VHI41tTglhPz8BQARrs8QY3nZMR/view

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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Nightfox to All on Fri Mar 14 2025 09:10 am

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xVCb8VHI41tTglhPz8BQARrs8QY3nZMR/view

I want an entire season of this.

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Oh my gosh. That was awesome. "The next time you encounter an MRO ...
how will you react?" Hillarious. I have not seen a post from MRO in well
over a year thanks to BlueWave's blacklist feature. It's nice. :-)

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Re: Have you guys used Notebo
By: Elf to DIGITAL MAN on Sat Mar 15 2025 09:30 am

Oh my gosh. That was awesome. "The next time you encounter an MRO ...
how will you react?" Hillarious. I have not seen a post from MRO in well over a year thanks to BlueWave's blacklist feature. It's nice. :-)

~Elf

Never heard of you. I wouldn't call it hillarious. it's just AI junk.
the dicknose remark was funny because I made it.

I also did a search on your name using your sig and this is your first post. so, hello sockpuppet.
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Re: Have you guys used NotebookLM much?
By: Nightfox to All on Fri Mar 14 2025 09:10 am

https://vert.synchro.net/files/Main/BBS/dove-net-mro-drama.wav

This is amazing.

i took a bunch of posts and put them in a text file and imported it and then they talked about me like i was the good guy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xVCb8VHI41tTglhPz8BQARrs8QY3nZMR/view

"especially on Dove-Net where people are constantly pushing the boundaries of language." hahahahaha

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