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596 points yunusabd | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 07:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around NotebookLM. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been done yet.
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Timwi ◴[21 Oct 24 08:43 UTC] No.41901982[source]▶
I have two super nitpicky things to say.

1) The website is slightly wide on my phone, so it wiggles left and right when I scroll. I usually fix this by pinch-zooming out the tiny amount necessary to align it to my viewport width, but your website apparently suppresses zooming.

2) The AI announces itself as having the name “Jane Doe”. What's the point in this? I know that American news with real anchors do this (having the anchor announce their own name), but this is not universal so it feels foreign to me. Since AIs don't have names, it feels like this was shoehorned in just to sound like American commercial news.

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1. yunusabd ◴[21 Oct 24 09:11 UTC] No.41902138[source]▶
Thanks for the feedback!

1) That's strange, I don't do anything to prevent zooming. Although I could provoke a situation where I interacted with the player and it somehow captured all subsequent touch inputs, so zooming was blocked. Maybe that's what happened? Reloading the page should fix it.

2) I like it because it adds a bit of personality. And I felt like the generic name "Jane Doe" would be fitting for an AI. Kind of hinting at the fact that it seems like a human, but it's not. Also low-key telling you that the whole thing is AI generated, in case you don't pick up on it immediately.