In this post, Max Harms reflects on using AI to produce full-cast audiobooks, weighing the creative empowerment it gives him against the fear that he is helping accelerate the replacement of human artists. Through his own experience with rapidly improving text-to-speech tools, he explores broader worries about AI’s growing ability to capture attention, reshape culture, and blur the line between useful creative aid and seductive, destabilising force.
* 00:00 - Introduction
* 07:43 - The Trajectory of Replacement
* 13:22 - Fighting AI with AI
* 19:10 - The Succubus
