It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - wow, really? Jaime, pull that up. It was the age of reason AND foolishness? Crazy.
Consuming a tremendous amount of energy and water in running AI models to paraphrase a book when you can read the book in same amount of time or less is capitalist innovation
I truly don’t get it. Especially when audiobooks exist.
There are a lot of books that don't have (and likely not going to have) audiobook versions. So there is some use for getting better text to speech with the extra stuff an AI could add. And of course have accessibility options that don't have such robotic sounding with bad pronunciation.
That being said, shit is about profits first and the other stuff is not the focus. While I would love to listen to some books with the voice of the authors (or even could be neat to hear voices of podcasters I like read them). I would rather hear hear them read by people that either just really like it as a hobby or wanting to practice voice acting if the authors/podcasters aren't in control of their voice an AI is using. Which reminds me that I should check LibriVox for some non-official audiobooks that I want to read but am too busy to do so.
Requesting a Cumtown version that adds a laughing Greek man and Gay Michael Douglas to everything
Greek Chorus
Greek Cackling
Stav Bot lives!
Excited for the future where everyone is totally illiterate.
the future is already here, it just isn't equally distributed yet
Fuck ooooooooff
said Holden Caulfield.
No way! AI is now capable of text to speech?! Something we've had since the 80s? The future truly is here.
I'm reminded of the TrashFuture episode intro where they had ChatGPT write dialogue based on ingesting fifty prior transcripts and coming up with a unique ten minute dialogue. Absolute fucking gibberish, but it did have a handful of riffs that you'd see pop up consistently between episodes.
Excited for all written works to be transformed in this novel and value-adding way.
what does this even mean? There has been text to speech for web pages forever (I have to click a whole bunch of fire hydrants to find out)
I found out basically it is nothing different from what has already existed in basic text to speech. This is basically just "entrepreneur" repackaging of the same thing that already exists to get people to buy a new thing and justify their investment lol
More proof """"AI"""" is more of a marketing term than actual artificial intelligence. It's dot com/blockchain/cloud shit all over again.
no there are actual novel uses and even incredibly good uses of machine learning, This is just absolutely not one of them
the "innovation" here is that the AI summarizes whatever corpus you feed it (often in a shallow or incorrect fashion) and then writes a bland NPR podcast script to tell you about it in bland NPR voices
that's so bad lmao. because that's literally what the writers of the thing already did to get you the information in the article/book whatever
It's gonna be really funny when people use this on AI written articles and then it gets AI summarized and you get telephone gamed by your own products
bruh just get an audiobook
mf reinvented text-to-speech
Love that companies can control not just the sources of information but the way it's delivered.
I feel like text to voice has existed for a while. Matt Lech from MR mentioned he used to like turning books into audiobooks and playing nba 2k back in like 2019
This is a tool called NotebookLM, an "AI first" notebook and study tool. This seems to be a tool for those technically literate enough to want AI in this, yet not competent enough to just string together Obsidian and Llama3.1. AI in notebooks is a marginal boost in productivity at best, and detrimental at worst. Deeply unserious product that is computationally inefficient qua computational inefficiency.
So text to speech from like 20 years ago?
It's so, so much worse than that. It injects Joss Whedon-esque banter.
...oh 
It uses more electricity now
OK, but hear me out... Capital Vol.1, mixed with poop jokes
Das Crapital
Okay so I hadn't considered that it is possible for AI to completely and utterly ruin literally all white culture but now that I'm seeing that's a possibility I gotta say critical support to it
nice
my mother showed me this and its actually fucking insane like i might be tempted to use it
"So you've got 20 yards of linen, right?"
"...Right." 
"And 20 yards of linen equals one coat, right?"
"...Uh huh."
"But the coat has a use-value that satisfies a particular need, you know? But like, to produce the coat, you need a purposeful, productive--"
"Bro! [PLAYS SOUND BOARD SAMPLE OF A FART]" 
"Bro."
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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