NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

NotebookLM is contributing to fake podcasts across the internet, with over 1,300 and counting:

https://github.com/ListenNotes/ai-generated-fake-podcasts/bl...

Google is taking a different approach this time, moving quickly. While NotebookLM is indeed a remarkable tool for personal productivity and learning, it also opens the door for spammers to mass-produce content that isn't meant for human consumption.

Amidst all the praise for this project, I’d like to offer a different perspective. I hope the NotebookLM team sees this and recognizes the seriousness of the spam issue, which will only grow if left unaddressed. If you know someone on the team, please bring this to their attention - Could you please provide a tool or some plain-English guidelines to help detect audio generated by NotebookLM? Is there a watermark or any other identifiable marker that can be used?

Just recently, a Hacker News post highlighted how nearly all Google image results for "baby peacock" are AI-generated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767648

It won't be long before we see a similar trend with low-quality, AI-generated fake podcasts flooding the internet.

Nearly every Google Image search result has AI images now, personally I’m starting to attribute this to Image Search just having been neutered and downgraded a ton over the past few years anyway so worse content surfaces in general.

But consider it from Googles perspective and this is why I think they won’t care, serving snippets and caches of articles had rights holders attacking them, serving thumbnails of images has rights holders attacking them, serving tiny bits of songs in the background of video had rights holders attacking them.

Serving AI doesn’t, I don’t think the current management at Google will care if Google shows fake baby peacocks as long as it can serve them without being bothered by rights holders, same way a Gemini summery can launder article information.