STBT: “OverDrive is the company that provides a lot of digital content to libraries. If you’ve borrowed an ebook or an audiobook in Libby, or read a magazine in Kanopy, that’s OverDrive. It seems there is some AI weirdness with audiobook narration on OverDrive, and the narrator is only part of the story. On Monday, October 14, librarian Robin Bradford posted on Blusky that she’d purchased an AI audiobook for her library system and she was really upset about it…Over 100 titles by AI “narrators” were in their catalog, and Robin was having trouble finding indications that the authors themselves are real? Not only is that A LOT of audiobooks, but similar to my casual foray into contemporary romance cover art, I noticed that there was a odd pattern to those author names:

• Mostly one or two syllable first names
• One syllable last names
• All very basic nouns and adjectives as surnames…”