Crazy Satoshi Podcast Created in Seconds, Crypto + AI is bigger than memecoins: AI eyes

Turn anything into a podcast

After Thrive Protocol's Ben West read about Ivan Hatch's famous illustrator Len Sassaman – Polymarket briefly renamed Satoshi Nakamoto – he uploaded the article to Google's notebook LM Audio Overviews.

He quickly produced a 12-minute podcast featuring two comedians talking about Len Sassaman's story.

I played the result with my girlfriend to test her reaction before showing her that it was completely AI generated. She says she was completely deceived.

“It's totally like people walking through a podcast,” she says.

Others were impressed by the audio overviews, which allow users to upload a website or YouTube link, PDF, plain text, Google Docs, and slides.

Audio Overview then provides a deep dive into the content in the form of a conversational podcast, with two natural-sounding voices cutting into each other and cracking lame jokes.

A16z partner Olivia Moore uploaded 200 pages of court documents to the service.

He created a true crime podcast that's 90% better than the current one… and ends with the hosts arguing about the ethics of the genre.

Business Insider's Anna Altchek also tested the software and found that the sounds are better quality than anything else on the market, including ChatGPT's advanced sound mode.

“Not only do the voices sound realistic, but the way the AI ​​handles the banter and banter mimics the style and structure of a real podcast.”

She found no obvious errors in the results, but that's a concern with anything generated by AI. So, while it's probably a good way to get the gist of complex information in a compressed burst, you still need to double-check the facts before relying on them.

“It's rare that I'm surprised by an instrument to play these days.”

“Voice overviews are probably my favorite AI tool I've tried so far – and they reveal new ways to use AI in our everyday lives.”

AI + crypto coins have increased 2X more than memecoins in the last 30 days.

According to Artemis, the AI ​​sector saw a weighted average increase of 38 percent last month, outpacing its closest rivals. Bridge tokens had an increase of 38.3%, and memecoins rose by 20.8%.

Of the big AI projects with tokens, Bittensor (TAO) seems to be doing most of the heavy lifting, 120% in 30 days. Other big-name projects didn't fare as well, with Arkham ( ARKM ), up 31%, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance ( FET ), up 19%, and Protocol Near ( NEAR ), up 22.2%.

But over the past 12 months, the script flips, the AI ​​+ Crypto sector is down 14.4%, while memecoins have gained 57.2%.

Then again, the popular AI + Crypto tokens today are probably the same as they were a year ago, but holding most memecoins for a year is risky for your wealth.

The decentralized exchange (77.8%) and real-world asset (351.4%) sectors both outperformed memecoins, despite talk of a “memecoin supercycle” Bitcoin 40.6% and Ethereum did… *cough* 3.8%

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Real fake

Until now, the biggest problem seemed to be with AI telling lies and misinformation from the truth, but two recent events suggest that the bigger issue is getting anyone's attention.

Some people don't seem that upset if something is proven to be profoundly false by AI, as long as it's true for them.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee posted a heartbreaking picture of a crying girl in a life jacket on a boat in floodwaters, holding a sad-looking dog. Followers opened the floodgates to express their frustration at the Biden administration's failure to protect floating crying girls and puppies, captioning this photo.

Although Lee deleted the photo after users pointed out it was fake, Trump Stan/Team Laura Lommer reposted the image, while Women for Trump founder Amy Kramer said it was okay. Photo comes from” like “There are people in worse situations than what is shown in this picture. So I leave it.

On the other side of the political fence, BBC disinformation reporter Mariana Spring visited Peeksville, Maryland to investigate the “racist AI deep fake” scandal in January.

The tape was quickly exposed by the Baltimore Banner as an AI deep hoax, but many readers refused to believe the explanation, seeing it as a way to avoid accountability.

Even six months after the school's disgruntled gym teacher was accused of committing the forgery, many locals still think the act was real. Spring recounts her five-minute conversation with a local resident named Sharon, in which she talks about the clip as if it were real, but it was fake for her husband to gently remind her of.

“Later she found out it was created by AI,” Spring said. But she said she was still upset about it.

Spring says she's found time and time again that if AI tells a lie that the viewer already believes is true, they have trouble getting the first impression out of their head. “Spring talks about the thought process.

Google searches return high AI images

If you search for an image of a baby peacock using Google Images, you only have about a 25% chance of finding a real photo. X user Dinesh posted a screenshot of the top 15 results for “baby peacock” and claimed that 11 of the images were generated by AI.

“Most images are created by AI. The human internet is coming to an end. The dead internet theory will become a reality in a few years.

The Dead Internet Theory is a conspiracy theory that says the Internet is mostly fake, not man-made.

Google plans to add a disclaimer to AI-generated images in the coming months, but only for images that contain C2PA metadata.

Telltale signs of an AI generation include extra fingers, glares in people's eyes, everything being too perfect or the background not so good. But as technology improves, these symptoms will disappear, so platforms need to address the issue now.

Earlier this year, Fox Corporation became Time Magazine's first client to partner with a blockchain platform to track and verify text and multimedia sources.

When AI takes over, it becomes ad-hoc.

TikTok has officially launched AI-powered ad buying and campaign management tools to compete with similar offerings from Google Performance Max and MetaAdvantage+.

TikTok hasn't been the most profitable advertising platform yet, with annual revenue of $22.32 billion compared to Meta's $154 billion, and I hope the new platform will help change that. The new suite allows marketers to create and optimize ads and placement or outsource to black-box algorithms.

Because it is better to mimic human behavior than advertising and marketing people, they will inevitably surrender to algo.

Advertisers who optimize the cost of Smart+ Web campaigns have achieved an average improvement of 53% in ad spend [compared to without it]” said Adolphe Fernandez, Head of Global Brand Strategy for Tik Tok.

Ray-Ban used the platform in beta, and the cost per purchase decreased by 50% and conversion rates increased by 47%. Overall, the sunglasses manufacturer has seen a 42% increase in investment.

An overview of Google AI will sell you things

Google's AI Overview feature shows users snippets of AI-generated responses to questions. At first he was criticized for telling people how to get people to eat rocks or how to get cheese to stick to pizza with glue, but he seems to have improved.

But the company's decades-long drive to make Google search worse with sponsored ads and SEO spam results is now serving ads alongside AI overviews.

Search for “how to get grass stains out of jeans”, and the AI ​​will give you some tips, including how to use stain remover. Then there's the helpful Tide Pen stain remover ad.

Although Google is getting revenue from these ads, it does not share any revenue with the publications and websites for which the AI ​​has scraped the answers, the search giant told Bloomberg.

Google predicts its share of the $300 billion annual ad market will drop below 50% next year, with rivals such as Amazon growing twice as fast and expected to take 22.3% of the market this year.

AI search startup Perplexity has been praised for the superior quality of its results, but plans to introduce ads later this month instead of relying solely on subscriptions.

“This space is ripe for a long-term shakeup,” Brendan Alberts, head of search and trading at ad-buying firm Dentsu, told the Wall Street Journal.

About half of confusing queries lead to follow-up questions, and the platform allows brands to curate responses, which can be “pre-approved and locked in, giving you comfort in how your brand will be viewed in response.” He said.

It looks awful.

Nearly 60% of US consumers used a chatbot to decide on a purchase last month, which is why platforms are desperate to monetize the results.

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Andrew Fenton

Based in Melbourne, Andrew Fenton is a journalist and editor covering cryptocurrency and blockchain. He has worked as a film journalist for News Corp Australia, SA Wind and national entertainment writer for Melbourne Weekly.

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