#idk! i saw some other things abt AI floating around related to the investors for the app but i haven't seen that much abt it

[v-arbellanaris]

to be clear, i'm not entirely convinced the entire lore.fm thing was like idk intentionally/deliberately malicious - and i can understand/see the need for better TTS, and i certainly Feel it abt for e.g. the quality of TTS voices. but i think there's massive issues with how it's being rolled out, esp wrt to the lack of transparency (like the prev rb mentions, where are they getting the money to finance the whole project, since it's ad-free, if its not thru generative ai?) and the intensely dodgy "opt-out" option, rather than making it opt-in. crucially, i think, is the fact that they're not working along with ao3 to actually roll this out. the way fics would then be 'transferred' essentially to the app, without the original author being acknowledged (or maybe even consenting because it's opt-out??? like how many people on ao3 are actually going to know abt the existence of this app, let alone that they need to email to opt out???) or credited in any way like idk!!! but i can respect the original intentions (like i suppose i could be a cynic and claim intentional maliciousness but i don't really want to? like idk i get the feeling of protectiveness and defensiveness, but i think it's such a leap to go and claim a brown person's like idk crocodile tears-ing - i think there was a lot of immediate concern and the exact nature of the concern has maybe not been entirely articulated clearly to them???) and im glad they're going back to rework the idea, and i do hope that there's wider & important discussions around accessibility tools.