I Taught My 8yo Subduction Zones with NotebookLM

Honestly, the resulting "podcast" is kind of underwhelming as an actual artifact. It's basically "plate tectonics for kids" mixed with some gobbledygook from the input paper. Sure it's kind of neat as a tech demo, but to actually try to use that just show the mediocritizing to enshittfying influence of LLMs.

Honestly, I think the guy would have gotten an even better response from his kid from any competently done "plate tectonics for kids" video (e.g. from Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/middle-school-earth-and-....

Curation and digital distribution basically solved this problem earlier with better results. LLMs are just a shittier private label article factory version (https://blog.smashwords.com/2010/01/scam-of-private-label-ar...).