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by steelegbr 437 days ago
As someone who's been involved with radio and occasionally podcasts for about 20 years... I'm struggling to see the benefit of this one. Yes, prep services have existed in the past and I'm sure continue to exist today. Xtrax rings a bell from years gone by.

But honestly, if you're going to be interviewing someone and the content is going to be engaging, you can't just fly from some LLM output. Talking to a politician you're going to need knowledge of their past actions, figures to challenge them on, etc. For music guests, a bit of knowledge about the band, key figures and moments throughout their story. I'd hope anyone using the LLM crib sheet is also being reactive to what their guests say (e.g. "you touched on X but when you were Chief of X...").

Interviews aren't my strength but I'd be wary of such a service. Combined with the usual AI hallucinations it could be quite the entertaining car crash.
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rokbenko 437 days ago
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it since it's coming from someone who was in the industry for many years.

I see your biggest concern is AI hallucinations, right?

I'm not using just an LLM. I added a service to give LLM up-to-date knowledge from the web. That reduces hallucinations a lot. Can I guarantee no hallucinations at all? No, I can't.

Where I see value in PodcastPrepper the most is being able to process dozens of sources from the web in parallel and create a report on the guest in about 3 minutes.

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UncleMeat 437 days ago
No. The biggest concern is that the conversation is going to be dull as heck because all you've got is a list of AI generated topic starters rather than any sort of meaningful capacity for conversation or meaningful structure for the conversation (either in narrative or pedagogy).

And if you are marketing this as taking 3 minutes and saving 95% of your time then this means it saves all of... one hour. Not exactly the bulk of the time spent producing a podcast episode.

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dekervin 437 days ago
Interesting. I have been working on a service in an adjacent space, that I hope is innovative enough, but not ready yet for prime time.

I would love to exchange with you about it ( even if it's just a few short emails ) and show it to you when it's ready.

Is there anyway to reach you? I'll leave my email on my profile for a few days too !

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