AI can’t replicate human labor, but it sure can approximate it at 1/10th the quality for 1/1000th the price.
Lol, I wonder if it’s just the same voice-to-text software that’s been around for a while.
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.
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
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.
I can see this backfiring in a huge way
Time to start a business selling “vintage” audio books. Ship people hard drives of MP3’s encoded in the wrong bit depth and then sell a proprietary piece of software that plays them at the “correct” one.
It’s insane to me that people aren’t openly rebelling about the reallocation of wages to owners’ bank accounts.
I think it was learning about the automation -> destitution of workers, as in the Luddite example, that lifted me out of middle school Ron Paul libertarianism…
My grandmother pulled that shit with me and I lost it. This is a woman who worked for 20 years, and retired early with a $6000/month state pension for teaching grammar in a community college.
She said “it’s not a big deal, ours is way higher and it needs to be because who’s gonna pay for it!”.
If you don’t learn shit before your boss does, you will be unemployed and it will suck. Be unemployed but it rules. Or go (back) to university.
