Goodbye to reading news: Daily Listen in Google’s new AI that turns your Discover feed into a podcast

If you prefer listening to reading, Google has an AI for you. Is called Daily Listenand serves to create five-minute podcast with a summary of the news that interests you mostaccording to Discover and Search.

Young people no longer know how to write, and the next step will be not knowing how to read, converting the text into audio in format podcast. Technology companies, from Google to Meta to OpenAI, are also destroying the critical ability to go to the websites of the media that interest us, and search for our own news.

With Discover and other algorithm- and AI-based services, They are the ones who select the news we seeand now they also turn them into podcastto save us the effort of entering these informative websites. Selected information direct to the brainwhile we gradually become zombies of technology and AI, without the will to make decisions or critical capacity.

What is Daily Listen, the AI ​​that turns news into podcasts

Google continuously tracks the topics that interest us through Google Discover and the search engine. With this information selects news that Daily Listen artificial intelligence summarizes into a five-minute podcast.

Daily Listen is activated in the upper left part of the Google app for iOS or Android. The podcast is not generated instantly, you have to wait a while for Gemini to convert the text into a podcast and generate the additional content.

Once inside the podcastyou can see the transcription in large letters, while you listen to it (center screen):

As additional information, Google includes links to the websites where the news comes from, in case you want to read it in full. You can also search for more similar news.

It is difficult to know to what extent this is useful. In my experience, I’m only interested in 10% of the news that Discover recommends, even on the topics I’ve selected. Discover tends to offer content of little informative interestsuch as news of affiliate offers, clickbaitand outdated information.

On the other hand, the media websites that generate this news will not be very happy with the idea. The media lives (we live) from the number of visits that enter the website, and the clicks they make on advertising.

This AI that converts news into audio, takes the information, our work, and skips all that, preventing users from entering the websites.

Google argues that the podcast is just a summaryand users must access the complete news from the links. But we all know that many people will stay with the summary, and something else…

Daily Listen, Google’s artificial intelligence that turns news into a podcastis currently only available in the United States, through Search LabGoogle’s experiment website.

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Tags: Artificial intelligence, Podcasts