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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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[–] 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.