#narrating

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Full Length Books

Bridge to Terabithia (2001)

The Secret History — Abridged (1992)

⤷ Recommended to listen at 0.75 or 0.50 speed.

The Story History of a Prince (1998)

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Short Stories

Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses (2009)

Counting the Ways (2012)

Gleason (2008)

Plague of Tics (2010)

Pride and Joy (2007)

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (2001)

The Piano Tuner (2000)

The Smoker (2004)

The Spray (2009)

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Poems

First Lesson (2004)

Inviting a Friend to Supper (2007)

I Would I Were a Careless Child (2007)

Kubla Khan (2007)

Live Deliberately… by Henry David Thoreau (1989)

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1989)

When I Was One-and-Twenty (2007)

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Documentaries

Cosmopolis Opening (Clip)

Cosmopolis Closing (Clip)

Enchanted (Clip)

Nantucket (Full)

Reluctant Saint — Francis of Assisi (Full)

@scarfanon said: Can you give us some tips on how to recognize when a channel's stories and narration are AI-generated, so as to better avoid them? I increasingly believe one channel that I've been following for years has gotten into this, but I don't know for certain.

It’s kind of hard, because while some narrations are definitely human, picking the difference between a novice writer or someone within less experience and something AI generated is harder. Features can increase the probability of a narration being one or the other, but there are no guarantees.

These are some of the guidelines I use, or things that make me suspicious of AI.

Features that increase the likelihood of a story being written by a human:

Has an authors name/credit

Is part of a series or has recurring characters

Has a theme, or a core message. Not just aesthetics.

Features that make me think the fiction is AI generated:

Story is about something trendy

Seems to have a lot of aesthetics, has the vibe, but doesn’t have the point

Ends up feeling like a detail is missing

Leaves you wondering why you bothered

Now it’s entirely possible that a novice human writer, especially one that’s exposed to a lot of AI writing instead of good human authors might end up mimicking an AI style. But these are just guidelines for suspicion.

For the voices, I think they’re more likely to be human if:

There is a video clip of them talking at any point

They change their tone and way of speaking for different characters

They’re at they speak is different in the ‘please subscribe’ tagline at the end of the video

And I become suspicious of AI if:

There doesn’t seem to be much variation in the tone or pace (though this is far from a good indication

They get common brand names or proper nouns wrong. Eg Nike, Dalek, Klingon

They get words with a non-English origin wrong, eg vague, Eloise

The tone doesn’t match what’s happening in the story

They use the same speaking voice for wildly different characters.

Now admittedly a human narrator could have all those faults, but when they have a lot of them, consistently, I start to get suspicious.

@the-lady-ashmore

I'm a narrator! Or well, The Narrator. I live outside of the world you live in, and I dictate how the story goes by adding more context! I essentially move the fairy tale along. Why do you ask?

Poses of a sim talking while reading a book