Updates for May~Oct 2024
Notebook LM: A threat to the Podcasting World
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What’s new?
1) Fighting Notebook LM-generated fake podcasts
In recent weeks, Notebook LM has taken the podcasting world by storm. Simply upload a few documents, and it generates a conversational podcast for deep dives. Unfortunately, scammers and blackhat SEOs have quickly jumped on this, leading to a surge in fake podcasts generated by Notebook LM. You can view a growing list of these fake podcasts here.
At Listen Notes, we’re committed to minimizing AI-generated content so that listeners can enjoy authentic, human-produced podcasts. However, Notebook LM has made it easier to mass-produce low-quality, fake content, posing a real threat to the podcasting community.
I've been in contact with the Notebook LM team for over a week now, with a simple request: provide us with a way to detect Notebook LM-generated audio, like a watermark or any existing detection tool. Unfortunately, despite numerous back-and-forth emails, we’ve yet to receive a clear answer.
Last Friday, we built a tool of our own. It’s working well for now, and we’ve already deleted hundreds of fake podcasts over the weekend.
2) Google One Tap Login on ListenNotes.com
3) PDF receipts from ListenNotes.com
This is more of a niche feature, but we've had frequent requests for PDF receipts from our users in Europe—so we built it!
4) Standalone subdomain for feeds
Listen Notes offers a few hosted RSS feeds, such as Alerts and Listen Later. These feeds are now served through the subdomain feeds.listennotes.com, instead of the previous www.listennotes.com. The advantage of using a dedicated subdomain for feeds is that it allows us to easily implement separate firewall rules for feeds (mainly accessed by bots) and web content (accessed by human users), providing better control and security for both.
5) Improvements for Listen411.com
A few improvements on Listen411.com (super fast transcription tool):
Supports email login method. Previously only Google login was supported.
6) Improvements on Listen Notes infrastructure
7) Misc
Farewell, RunKit! We've removed the last RunKit embed from our API pages. Going forward, we’re using our own custom-built playground for running Node.js code.
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I've been researching, talking to friends in the Bay about this too. Thank you for building the tool. I started asking the same question of detection over here.