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40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 years ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/audiobooks@literature.cafe

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I definitely do not want to support this practice, but there's no way to filter these out 😠.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don't really care if the LLM can spit out a perfect replica of Stephen Fry with every inflection and intonation possible and in the correct spots.

Tools like these can and will be used to take jobs from actual voice actors. I want no part of it.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get where you're coming from, but it doesn't sit quite right with me. The whole point of technology is to save human time and effort. That should be a good thing. The problem is the capitalist hellscape that is the status quo. I don't think we should put the onus of propping up that capitalist hellscape onto book authors. I mean, maybe that's the easiest way to maintain the status quo, but the status quo was never sustainable in the first place.

I don't know. This is not a fully fleshed out philosophy. At some level I'm sure it's the same old idealism-vs-pragmatism debate.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

Let me rephrase the issue for you and see if you have a different emotional reaction.

A person's job was replaced with a capitalist's robot, and now the capitalist earns all the money.