Pirated, AI-voiced audiobooks are popping up all over YouTube, creating a copyright infringement problem for publishers. The users posting the videos are able to include ads, and make money off of the books. The New York Times reports that a YouTube version of John Grisham’s latest novel The Widow, featuring an “emotionally flat, robotic” AI-generated voice has over 80,000 views. The images that go along with the book, which is about “small-town lawyer in rural Virginia who finds himself on trial for murder” are nonsensical and include: “a waterfall, a family picnicking on a tropical beach, people snorkeling around a coral […]
