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Tim Woodruff :verified:

ABSOLUTELY. THE. FUCK. NOT.
You will NEVER catch me selling any of my books in audiobook format with an AI generated voice.

@edzitron

@ProfessorTim I suppose it depends on the quality of the narration, no? Or do you have more fundamental objections?

@sfabel to an entire book narrated by AI?
... For money?

Fundamental objections.
Deeply fundamental.

@ProfessorTim I mean, not any different from any other software you may pay for.

I would question how much it is worth, but presumably there's a cost profile running the narration on appropriate infrastructure.

If you pay a human to read the book, they read it (and presumably get paid) _once_ and publisher makes $$ forever.

What's the difference?

@sfabel I don't like you. ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

@ProfessorTim Sorry! I'm not that bad, I promise...