Earlier this month, Straight Arrow asked journalists to assess how well Google turned their written stories into TikTok-style videos. Now, Straight Arrow spoke with a new set of journalists to evaluate how well Google’s NotebookLM turned their reporting into podcasts. “I was freaked out in the beginning because of how eerily human it sounded,” she told Straight Arrow. It was, perhaps, too human-like in parts, Dunlap told Straight Arrow. The AI podcast did a good job of highlighting each of her sources, Craig said.