AI can’t replicate human labor, but it sure can approximate it at 1/10th the quality for 1/1000th the price.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Lol, I wonder if it's just the same voice-to-text software that's been around for a while.

    • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      there are a bunch of new AI speech models that are more convincing than the old stuff. Like the things used to make the Trump/Obama/Biden gaming memes

      • iridaniotter [she/her, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah but those are funny for a TikTok video. I really doubt people are going to want to listen to them for ten hours for an audiobook. Personally, I think there is a good chance this fails because it is premature.

        • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          oh yes, absolutely going to be a degraded listening experience. people will probably buy fewer audiobooks. question is, will the sales impact be greater than the savings from automation? and when people realize there's nowhere to go, will the sales come back?

        • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Actually it'd probably be fine.

          In an ideal world this would mean all the little books would have at least some kind of audiobook available and that would be worth celebrating

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Voice-to-text is "AI" in a very loose sense, but so are the methods for handwritten digit recognition that I'm pretty sure USPS has been using for close to 30 years now. I'm somehow doubting anything charging $20/month rather than a significant fraction of the human labour cost is very modern, lol.