Martin: NotebookLM is sunsetting source text transformation due to low usage
Raiza Martin · How NotebookLM Was Made · Oct 25, 2024 · at 11:08
Google Labs product lead Raiza Martin describes product pruning and sunsetting underused features in NotebookLM.
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“We had this idea that you could highlight the text in your source passage, and then you could transform it. And nobody was really using it. And it was like a very complicated piece of our architecture, and it's very hard to continue supporting it in the context of new features. So we were like, okay, let's do a fifty-fifty sunset of this thing and see if anybody complains. And so far, nobody has.”
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