This sounds just like the “use native not electron” arguments to me. Yes, native (human) is better but if the app wouldn’t exist at all without electron (ai), I’ll pick electron.

If Gutenberg gets human narrators for books then that’s great, for the rest using AI doesn’t seem like a bad idea.

Heck, there are 3 books in a series I love (Honor Harrington, first 2 and especially the last one in the Shadow of Saganami series) that have a different narrator from all the mainline series and they bad (I cannot stress enough how bad the narrator for book 4 in the spinoff is). I’d love nothing more than to train an AI on the other books and generate new narrations for those 3 books. Heck I’d pay Allison Johnson $100+ per book for her to re-narrate them if that was an option but I seriously doubt it is with copyright BS and trying to crowdfund something like that. So in the absence of getting what I’d like, and what I’d pay for, I’d gladly turn to “AI”.