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Reminds me of the excellent folding ideas video on these sort of scams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
by asddubs 4y ago
Reminds me of the excellent folding ideas video on these sort of scams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
In the video he talks about a course (which is a scam) selling a different scam of getting a ghostwriter to write a crappy book, getting someone else to record it, and then publishing it to audible to make money. which seemingly did work for a short period of time but no longer does. I guess this is the same sort of thing, except cutting out the ghostwriter.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoNow various language models can do all those steps
- wavefunction 4y agoI don't want to listen to unskilled voice-actors read a book to me. I definitely don't want some super awkward software voice that can't interpret the text to provide emotional color to their inflection. And this is not something I think is easily solvable by a 2023 AI startup.
- tablespoon 4y agoThey're not trying to make something you want, they're trying to make something you'll buy.
- asddubs 4y agothat's why it's a scam. I think the original thing was that audible would give bonuses for publishing books (it's mentioned in the video, but it's been a couple weeks since I watched it), so you would basically just make shitty books to get bonuses. of course this no longer works, and now there's also much more competition, so your crappy grift books aren't actually going to get you any meaningful amount of money, but the point is just to sell people a grift they can do that seems like it could work