I just listened to this AI generated audiobook and if it didn’t say it was AI, I’d have thought it was human-made. It has different voices, dramatization, sound effects… The last I’d heard about this tech was a post saying Stephen Fry’s voice was stolen and replicated by AI. But since then, nothing, even though it’s clearly advanced incredibly fast. You’d expect more buzz for something that went from detectable as AI to indistinguishable from humans so quickly. How is it that no one is talking about AI generated audiobooks and their rapid improvement? This seems like a huge deal to me.
why should i care about the audio book industry? The biggest player is Amazon, it doesn’t add value to the art form, its just another way to become informed, and the more people who have that ability the better.
Because they are people. There are other options, you don’t have to support Amazon.
Because they won’t lower prices even though they no longer have the cost of labor so people that made money from this industry are now out of work and can’t even afford that which they once created and then as people get poorer it limits the idea that people will just use it to become better informed and it becomes something rich twats get to enjoy without having to pay anyone but another rich person for closing the bubble and door to personal influence on the medium.
Because the idea, that every job getting replaced is in any way going to help people other than just destitute those without assets is cruel ignorance of reality.