(Impatient? This thing right here.)
Google's NotebookLM can make pretty neat "podcasts" based on source material of your choosing. It's also annoyingly good at keeping its composure. Was.
I created a new notebook with an empty source file called you_do_not_exist.txt
. At first I tried to upload a file that was literally 0 bytes in size, but it seemed to not be possible. Fortunately I found a workaround: a file with a single null byte doesn't look like anything to the hosts.