{"id":5513,"date":"2025-01-26T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T00:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2025-01-26T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T01:53:57","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-546-testing-a-new-budget-webcam-google-photos-ask-is-horrible-chatgpt-academic-journal-hallucinations-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/26\/mobileviews-podcast-546-testing-a-new-budget-webcam-google-photos-ask-is-horrible-chatgpt-academic-journal-hallucinations-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 546: Testing a new budget webcam; Google Photos &#8220;Ask&#8221; is horrible; ChatGPT academic journal hallucinations theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 546: Testing a new budget webcam; Google Photos &quot;Ask&quot; is horrible; Jon's Theory about ChatGPT academic journal hallucinations\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=hy3ak-17d06bc-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/obsbot-meet-se-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/obsbot-meet-se-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/obsbot-meet-se-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/obsbot-meet-se-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/obsbot-meet-se-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/obsbot-meet-se-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to Walter Eccles who, in MobileViews mini-podcast 50,\u00a0 helped me test a sound level meter and wireless lav mic system by recording a podcast in a busy restaurant. Google NotebookLM summarized the podcast using only the audio discussion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon experimented with ChatGPT &amp; NotebookLM and discovered how ChatGPT hallucinates journal articles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OBSBOT Meet SE 1080P 100FPS Webcam &amp; its microphone were tested.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple Macintosh celebrated its 41st birthday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new Google Photos for iOS &#8220;Ask&#8221; feature is horrible, but has a temporary &#8220;Switch to classic search&#8221; option.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The accuracy of weather data was questioned, and Forecast Advisor was used to determine the best weather source for a specific ZIP code.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1Password now allows users to freeze their accounts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orbitime World Clock Widget offered a free lifetime upgrade.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Docs introduced a new &#8220;Write with Gemini&#8221; option.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DasjgDOXUnE?si=pcuL45uaopiU1Jz0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ToddOgasawara\/podcasts\u201d\">MobileViews YouTube Podcasts channel <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d&lt;\/a\">MobileViews Podcast on Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Walter Eccles who, in MobileViews mini-podcast 50,\u00a0 helped me test a sound level meter and wireless lav mic system by recording a podcast in a busy restaurant. 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