Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴‍☠️

  • trevron@beehaw.org
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    18 days ago

    Well unlike your ass, I appreciate the nuance of a good performance. But i know what you mean.

    GPU time, while cheaper than a voice actor, is still a bit spendy though. And you then you also have the various copyright/licensing “issues” associated with AI content, companies may be a bit hesitant to go all in on producing books like that. Makes more sense for someone like Amazon/Audible and less sense for someone like spotify.

    Besides, most audio books exist already so that really only applies to newer titles.

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      18 days ago

      My ass probably could appreciate real performance if I was into audiobooks overall, I just like books as books. I’m not exactly happy about all content being replaced with AI slop. However I don’t think spotify cares, if something is cheaper they will go for it, just like other corpos.

      Oh well I think they will be losing as well, people don’t even really need the audio book providers anymore, since they could just do AI ebooks themselves if they just have the text ebook.

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        18 days ago

        Agreed on pretty much all counts but I love Audiobooks just as much as “analog” books lol