Yeah, this is an example of where AI enables a new product by reducing standards of quality and marks of effort. Rather than doing the work of curating stories

Yeah, this is an example of where AI enables a new product by reducing standards of quality and marks of effort. Rather than doing the work of curating stories with specific educational goals, chosen or crafted by native speakers and perhaps even noted authors, which might be an ongoing process with months of preparation and numerous humans working together towards a common vision, one hobbyist can spend $.035 at a time to accumulate a cache of "good enough" stories in countless languages. For some, it's exciting to see the barrier to entry lowered so that one hobbyist can create a tool with so much content behind it and dreams of social uplift ask us to cheer when stuff gets cheaper because it becomes more broadly available. So there are real upsides here, but of course those upsides are coming as part of a tradeoff against quality when we look at current/near LLM technology. Those quality tradeoffs aren't going to be suited to everyone, especially those who have the luxury to pay more for better things.