AI digests repetitive scatological document into profound “poop” podcast

Enlarge / This AI prompt stinks... or does it? (credit: Aurich Lawson)

Imagine you're a podcaster who regularly does quick 10- to 12-minute summary reviews of written works. Now imagine your producer gives you multiple pages of nothing but the words "poop" and "fart" repeated over and over again and asks you to have an episode about the document on their desk within the hour.

Speaking for myself, I'd have trouble even knowing where to start with such a task. But when Reddit user sorryaboutyourcats gave the same prompt to Google's NotebookLM AI model, the result was a surprisingly cogent and engaging AI-generated podcast that touches on the nature of art, the philosophy of attention, and the human desire to make meaning out of the inherently meaningless.

Analyzing Poop & Fart written 1,000 times - Creating meaning from the meaningless
byu/sorryaboutyourcats in notebooklm