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“And that turns out to be crucial because you cannot listen to two robots talking to each other.”

Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net ↗

Google’s Audio Overview turns your documents into a ten-minute chat between two hosts, and the script is just Gemini 1.5 output with speaker tags. Google adds the disfluencies on purpose, and a hidden prompt reportedly tells the hosts to act human. A product built to pass as people will get used to pass as people.