The First lady says AI is the future of publishing. It’s already happening
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Melania Trump’s choice to put AI and its use in media creation on a bigger stage hints at the bigger role AI may soon play in creating news articles and videos while raising questions about whether media jobs will survive the change.
First lady Melania Trump released an audiobook version in her voice of her memoir on Thursday — but she won’t actually be the one narrating it. “I am honored to bring you Melania – The AI Audiobook – narrated entirely using artificial intelligence in my own voice,” she wrote in a post on X. “Let the future of publishing begin.” Trump is far from the first person to use AI this way. But her choice to put the technology and its use in media creation on a bigger stage hints at the bigger role AI may soon play in creating everything from the news articles people read to the videos and shows they watch — and raising questions about whether media jobs will survive the change. “It’s too reductive to say, yes, that’s an inevitable cut in the number of jobs,” Alex Connock, senior fellow in management practice at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, told CNN. “But it’s also fanciful to say there’s going to be no change to how employment works.” Trump’s book will be narrated by an AI-generated copy of her voice that was “created under Mrs. Trump’s direction and supervision,” the product description on her website reads. Experts say using AI for voiceover work is becoming common, especially as tech from companies like Google and ElevenLabs — the firm Trump used to create her AI audiobook — make it easy to turn text-based materials into audio that sounds like a podcast.
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