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True… yet nearly everybody else, maybe beside few like 404 media, seems to be either boot licking or access “journalism” so I get the “spicy” take.

No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?

Meanwhile… https://lemmy.world/post/29676416?scrollToComments=true

I’m not an economist but… 1 voice actor can serve 3 million consumers if they listen to the same content.

Anyway that’s not even my point, my point is that it is possible to cover, we as a society, driven both by VC with strategies of capturing markets (so precisely going against “free” market as an ideal) and consumers are making choices (like when one buys from the local farmer market vs Amazon deliveries). If though we, while fully understanding the consequence of such choice (namely how the sausage is made, here how AI models are trained and then run), believe it’s not valuable then sure, we can make that choice.

I’m just warning consumers then that if they don’t pay for quality content made a certain way, they can’t complain that they in turn don’t get the job they wanted because nobody out there is ready to pay for it.

2 sides of the same coin.

Enshittification isn’t adding new features that people want, it’s gradually lowering the quality of the product. So here if Audible is solely adding more possibilities, never at the cost of higher quality ones degrading, then indeed I’m wrong.

If though they hire less people to do good voice acting, then it’s really shitty.

I genuinely hope I’m wrong and they are ONLY adding new capabilities… but my entire experience with capitalism is that obtaining a monopolistic position is not done to improve quality but rather to increase margins regardless of how.

We’ll see!

It’s Amazon, what did you expect? Enshittification and monopoly abuse, no surprise.

dont even have enough professional voice actors to cover the bandwidth

I’m pretty sure they’d be a lot more people ready to do that job if there was a good remuneration. Heck that sounds a lot more fun that a LOT of jobs out there!

My notes on it https://fabien.benetou.fr/ReadingNotes/AmusingOurselvesToDeath

But yes, stop scrolling, read it.