#EDIT: goddamn it I accidentally wrote “wee” ;_;

[stjohnstarling]

This article is so crazy, following a librarian as she discovers that she had unwittingly purchased more than a hundred AI audiobooks by possibly nonexistent authors:

Robin hadn’t initially noticed it was an AI narrator because she never pays attention to the narrator when there’s a patron report of a problem with an audiobook: “It’s always file problems, not narrator problems.” “And it’s probably still not a narrator problem. It could have happened to any file. BUT, it sent me down the rabbit hole of ‘oh shit, I bought an AI narrated book?’ “I wonder how many of those I bought on accident.” “OH SHIT, we have HOW MANY?”

It's a bit of a cliché at this point to say that we are living through a golden age of scams, but it's mind-bending to see stuff like this penetrating even into public library systems.