If the genAI fever dream has taught me anything it's that the vast majority of people could never come into contact with art (genAI or otherwise) for their whole lives and be totally fine. IDK, just supremely sad how content people are with the void in this weirdly specific way

"You can call me whatever you like, I don't mind 😘" is gonna live rent free in my mind forever and ever, the President of the United States said the most bottom-ass shit I've ever heard and to somebody I actually respect this time?!

you've knot bean

How noble, such a show of restraint and sensitivity 🙄

Desperately hoping that my passport remains valid long enough for me to make my planned exit. I have an opportunity to get out next summer, but only if I have, you know, freedom of movement.

gonna forget what the office scourge is supposed to be and just bring a small cat to your colleagues on the regular

kind of fucked up to ensure you have to train yourself to excitedly and lovingly say the word "email"

If you ever lose *me*, know that you've made it

No I think you're good, honestly you're doing the audience a solid, helps the atmosphere

And I just can't imagine the end user experience being the same with some AI slop product than it was for real, meaningful collaborative work between an author, narrator, and a good engineer. Even just the simple gesture of "people worked hard together to make this exist for you" is so important.

Yes! I used to work as an audio engineer at a small studio where I recorded podcasts and audiobooks. While we usually had the authors themselves reading (sadly, they're usually underprepared for this sort of thing), I had the privilege of working with a voice actor of note once and it fucking ruled.

I'll grant you that

typical boys, with the privilege to have not even a single care in the whole solar system, at least girls are holding it down over here smh

whwhwhwhwhwHAT?? I get to listen to more Einstein?! YES DUDE