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

  • 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