Crapchester Halloween Chaos, or Hallucinogenic Halloween Revisited

OK, we're back to my experiments with AI.  I hadn't played with Google's Notebook LM for a while and I was looking to produce some new audio for a podcast I'm working on, so I was intrigued to find that the app now also offers to produce a video presentation based on sources you provide.  So, using a seasonal story from a couple of years ago - Hallucinogenic Halloween - I produced both the regular audio output, with the two AI characters discussing the story and this audiovisual slide show. (which, rather disturbingly, reminds me of some of the PowerPoint presentations I made myself, back in the day when I was teaching, to accompany lessons).  

The first thing to note about this particular video presentation is that, from the off, it correctly identifies the story as being satirical and the setting fiction.  This seems to me to be a significant step forward, as other parts of Notebook LM still seem to treat the source at face value.  Moreover, the source itself gives no internal indication that it is satirical fiction, (for human readers, the fact that it is published on a site openly declaring itself as satirical and ridiculousness of its content are sufficient).  Oddly, though, the presentation, having established these facts, then goes on to discuss the source story as if it were somehow presenting legitimate points.

Anyway, it was an interesting exercise and I can't deny that I find the result quite amusing.  Sure, I know that it still isn't a very good use of AI, let alone a good enough excuse to burn up some more of the world's resources and edge us further toward the global warming tipping point.  But Hell, with Trump in power doing his best to undermine the fight against climate change, we're all doomed, anyway, so we might as well have some fun on the road to Hell.