Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.
May 13, 2025 22:55I took a virtual CPR training last week, and the AI narrator kept telling me to “résumé chest compressions” and no thank you actually I believe we should all just die
I can’t stand robotic sounding readers. I need just as much acting in an audiobook as I do a movie.
excuse me who is cheering for this, who may i politely point towards the door out of the very expansive tent
Scabs, every last one of those cheering for the generated slop.
I just...like humans? And nuance, and experiencing a part of someone when they touch art?
I have listened to a few audiobooks, my husband listens daily, neither of us would ever listen to AI. The voice matters, but so does the emotion, the attitude, a live reader can make a listener FEEL the words, LIVR the words. They enhance the writing. AI could never do that.
They are AWFUL!
Those books will contain plagiarisms from various authors and bland filler. I do not care for AI books.
A successful author that helped me develop as a writer and, ultimately, get published has embraced generative AI and I just can’t understand how he made that decision. I had to unfriend and unfollow. It’s sad.
I can't fathom what the creative landscape will look like in ten years. I heard someone last week say "everyone's an artist until the rent is due," and it slapped hard. Evolve? Adapt? Die? Fight? Cry?
Because, for too many people, nothing is bad until it's bad for them.
You can bet if an AI is reading your book for audio on streaming sites, it's also ingesting it for reuse in prompting
I recognize the intention of democratization of audiobooks, since most books don’t get an audio version. But replacing narrators is not a solution. There should be a cap on how many AI audiobooks can be sold. Once you reach it, you must hire a human to do it if you want to continue sales.
Narrators/voice actors should strike and collectively bargain this.
An indie book that sells 10 audio copies per year should benefit from AI, large publishers should not.
I saw the article and thought of you immediately
