A (Beta) Audio Roundup of September’s WordPress Vulnerabilities
For those of you that want to stay abreast of the newest vulnerabilities in the WP ecosystem, but like to multitask, here’s an audio roundup of the vulnerabilities we published in the month of September. This is something new I’m trying. The conversation is AI generated by Google’s NotebookLM podcast generation feature which I find quite impressive. It’s designed to be accessible to the layperson.
Let me know what you think in the comments. I’ll be happy to share our own evaluation results but don’t want to bias you going into this. Here’s a downloadable link if you right click on this link and save-as. Enjoy.
Comments
1:44 pm
Holy cow, that conversation sounds so natural, it's hard to believe that it's AI-generated. Some filler words & phrases thrown in, dynamic pacing & tones. Very impressive.
1:59 pm
Agreed.
1:44 pm
Have to confess that was pretty good and I've heard worse from real people. I'd look at the interjections with the "yeah" parts as a few points there were too many but overall it was really good!
2:00 pm
For v1 I agree.
1:45 pm
What exactly is AI generated? The script? The voices? Both?
1:59 pm
Both.
1:52 pm
You are kidding, right? This is awful. It's terrible to listen to, and it takes longer and is less informative than just reading a list of vulnerabilities. Even laypeople deserve real information.
2:01 pm
Kidding? No. For v1 of their product it’s incredibly impressive.
2:09 pm
As an experiment, it is very interesting. As a delivery mechanism for content, I side with Clare.
1:56 pm
Firstly did a human write the dialouge? Because I noticed how one voice is uninformed then becomes the teacher, and vica-versa. The two voices do this all through the file. But, the voices are engaging. Now, if I could get AI to use my voice, I could convert 10 years of blogs into audio files that would bring my material to thousands. How do I do that??
1:58 pm
No this is AI written based on our blog posts. Yes the role reversal we’re seeing is a bug.
1:57 pm
Okay I heard a Notebook AI podcast before, I just wanted to quickly check this out and I ended up continuing to listen. I loved it. But is the information true and accurate? I have no idea. I'd love to know if you think it was all well explained. It's maybe a bit too casual and wordy, but it's so good to listen to.
2:07 pm
Yes we checked and it’s good enough. For some of the explanations - we may have clarified things differently, emphasized differently, but overall it’s quite I impressive. No glaring issues.
2:04 pm
How does the info in the podcast compare to the source articles? Mainly, is it accurate or are their factual discrepancies?
2:06 pm
Favorably. This is what we paid most attention to during evaluation. Not perfect - we didn’t love some of the dumbed down explanations - but good enough.
2:07 pm
Not a fan. Got through a few minutes but couldn't continue. I listen to a decent amount of podcasts. Knowing this is AI generated makes it cringy (for me) as the banter and repetitive interactions, podcast tactics to length episodes, means that this has been engineered to take more time than necessary to delivery information.
2:08 pm
I have a feeling knowing it’s AI may bias us. I found after evaluating it with a few of our team for 15 mins I was far more critical on second listen.
2:15 pm
I completely agree that knowing it is AI does add bias. Contextually, when I think of Wordfence, I think "excellent service, thought and security leaders, focused messaging," etc. IMHO (everyone's got one!), this does not have that same focus and clarity.
2:19 pm
Interesting. Thanks.
2:10 pm
As someone who has used WordFence on the website since 2012 for my NON-AI talk radio program that I then distribute AS a podcast, I am highly motivated to move fully to Sucuri or another solution with this move from WordPress. Why should ANY podcaster feel anything but betrayed by you for going this route?
2:17 pm
I wouldn’t worry too much. There’s a human connection that these generative products lack. Not sure what “route” you think I’m going btw. This is just a fun thing I thought I’d share. It’s googles product and was ranked #1 on hacker news earlier today so I’m afraid the cat is out of the bag.
2:13 pm
Woah! This is incredible!
2:20 pm
Yeah when I play this to friends and family I get that reaction.
2:16 pm
I'd have liked to listen to that first not knowing it's AI. I was definitely impressed by the voice quality and conversational tone. The excessive grunts and interjections might not have stood out if I wasn't listening for flaws.
2:19 pm
Yeah sorry Gabe I almost structured the post that way but decided against it because I figured some people would get mad at me. I’m already getting shouted at a bit in these comments so no regrets there. But agreed not knowing first listen is more fun.