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Spotify's new terms of service for audiobooks (imgur.com)
submitted 10 months ago by mesamunefire to c/books
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Arent ToS notoriously unenforceable?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

They'll use this as justification to use the audio books for AI training, which is a case that hasn't been tried in courts very much yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

She is also a fun account to follow in general, she does audiobooks for a bunch of spicy fiction, and some of the lines she has to read are hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Spotify is also publishing anti AIDS propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Does that not mean that they can also train AI to use the narrator's voice and style to read books without paying a penny for the narrator?