[ben_w]

Indeed. But MREs, protein shakes, Huel etc. are also a product of industrialisation.

In this case, I could see potential value for a better iteration of this tech, making it a meal replacement shake rather than a candy bar.

There's too much interesting content for me to read it all, and I have a long commute. Right now I'm using that commute to learn German, and that is a good use of that time, but let's say I didn't need to because I hadn't moved country or I was already fluent: in this hypothetical, I'd gladly have a better AI than this(!) generate podcasts about the articles that I don't have time to read.

But the AI would need to be better than this one for that to be worthwhile — I just popped one of my own blog posts into it, and it was kinda OK-ish, but did make some stuff up. Now sure, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect was written with humans in mind, but that's a shared disappointment and not a reason to let this AI off that particular hook.