Plus they don’t see ad revenue, so there’s no profit incentive to keep bots around acting as if they’re real traffic. If anything, Lemmy instances are disincentivized from allowing bot traffic because it means more traffic than necessary, which costs them bandwidth.

Speechify is probably the best option for this particular usecase.

It already exists. Quite literally there’s an AI VC based largely on him: https://www.theblock.co/post/323192/marc-andreesen-shoutouts-help-ai-powered-vc-fund-ai16z-to-nearly-100-million-market-cap