Disclosure

How it's made

Every episode Stray Current Studio publishes is produced with generative AI. We would rather you hear it from us than find out later.

What the machines do

• Writing. Scripts are drafted by large language models working from a story structure, a world bible, and a continuity ledger.
• Voices. Every performance is synthesized. No human actor performs in our episodes.
• Sound. Ambience, foley and music are generated, sourced from licensed libraries, or both, then mixed automatically.
• Art. Cover art, character art and scene illustrations are generated.

What the humans do

• Design the worlds, the characters, the seasons and the rules they obey.
• Build and tune every part of the pipeline described above.
• Review, reject and regenerate output that does not meet the bar.
• Decide what is published. Nothing reaches a feed without a person releasing it.

What we do not do

• We do not clone, imitate, or synthesize the voice of any real person.
• We do not present synthesized performances as human ones.
• We do not use AI to impersonate real people, living or dead.

Why we say so

Audio drama is an intimate form, and a voice in your ear carries an implicit claim about who is speaking. Ours are synthetic. Knowing that should be your choice to make before you listen, not a discovery you make afterwards.