AI chatbot ChatGPT helped generate "The Joe Rogan AI Experience" podcast as it debuted its 51-minute pilot episode, featuring none other than the voice of the OpenAI Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sam Altman.
Listeners of the AI-generated podcast stormed social media platforms to share its incredible accuracy. Some narrated that it sounded like the podcast host. Other folks were quite stunned and terrified at the same time by the apparent accuracy.
AI-Generated Joe Rogan Podcast
This is not the first instance that AI tried to mimic the Spotify podcast host, Rogan. Mashable reports that the Chinese-based social media TikTok removed a viral video featuring a deep fake of the American podcaster last February.
Users of the video-sharing service started seeing video ads, which showed Rogan promoting Alpha Grind, a "libido booster for men." He even taught his viewers how to search for it on the giant online retailer Amazon.
But it turned out to be an AI-generated deep fake of the host. PC Gamers notes that it was an entire scam duping its viewers. Thus, TikTok deleted these videos later on. This time, it no longer promotes a sketchy product to scam people on TikTok. Instead, AI attempted to recreate a full-blown podcast episode.
As per Fox News, the earliest episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" features the faux voice of the podcaster and the big boss of GPT-4 maker, OpenAI. Like most podcasts, the two discussed some pressing topics. Altman talked about the ethics in the emerging world of AI, as well as the potential impact of the ChatGPT chatbot in the content creation industry and in general.
ChatGPT Wrote the Script
The podcast's intro disclosed that the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT extended a helping hand to make the podcast possible. The faux Rogan revealed that "every single word of this podcast has been generated with the help of ChatGPT."
Fox News notes that listeners of the pilot episode of the AI-generated podcast were quick to react on various social media platforms. One Twitter user, Joshua Vernson, says, "This is the most terrifying thing I have ever seen." Meanwhile, Richard Beauregard tweeted, calling it "mind-blowingly dangerous." He adds that in the next ten years, information might no longer be "ever believable again."
Despite the terrifying accuracy, the news outlet pointed out that ChatGPT still showed weaknesses in mimicking a human person. It sometimes sparingly used "ah" and "um" pauses, making it pretty awkward.
The second episode of the AI-generated Joe Rogan podcast is now on YouTube, featuring an AI version of the former President of the United States, Donald Trump.
