The main problem in these things are the lack of persistance. In very image the porcupine is different. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
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Hey! Maker of https://magicstory.ai here! Super glad to hear your daughter loved it :) we're pushing updates to improve the stories and definitely take privacy seriously - right now all images get deleted once your characters model is trained. Also planning to have stock characters so you can make stories without uploading images since I get that's definitely a concern for most parents. Would love any other feedback…
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You're conflating gender and sex.
But having a binary only option for this forces non binary children to comply to the gender dichotomy while having an option outside this norm allows them the freedom of choice.
Also, ask yourself why a binary-only option doesn't strike you as "advocating sex change" when the users are capable of choosing different options.
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#133We own a few children books which were obviously produced by piecing together random stock images, and they are like this.
So, there's a market, and kids won't mind :)
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
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You're conflating gender and sex. But having a binary only option for this forces non binary children to comply to the gender dichotomy while having an option outside this norm allows them the freedom of choice. Also, ask yourself why a binary-only option doesn't strike you as "advocating sex change" when the users are capable of choosing different options.
Sex and gender are the same thing. I'ts precisely that choice that promotes the ideology that gender is separate and maleable, which is what children are vulnerable to.
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#135The prompt [1] didn't fully transfer to the generated story. This is an important part of the prompt: > she had too much butter. Because of that, things got slippery. > Until finally she opened the first ever butter theme park. But the generated story doesn't say that the layer of butter in the kitchen was slippery, or explain that butter in general is slippery (and hence could create "slippery slides"), which make t…
Then again, “things got slippery” can be used metaphorically; and that meaning did appear in the story (mischievous Sparkles).
Well it’s a kids book. So I’m not sure it should be heavy on metaphors.
It’s really not great though. On the last page the hedgehog becomes huge.
And it makes no sense. Why was there too much butter? Why was some random girl in the house. How does butter make bread disappear? Why is one character a hedgehog and the other a human girl?
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#136There is a market, at least within south east asia, that mass produces stories like aesop's fables, and regional folklore. The books produced are thin 2minute reads and are available for purchase for less than 1 USD usually. It's not surprising to see grammatical and spelling errors slip into the prints of some of these books. The artwork is basic and while stylistically more consistent than OP's effort, it's entirel…
Maybe an app for parents to make one with the content they want available as an ebook for x a month
Seen a few people trying to make these and honestly, it’s ok as a novelty thing. Like for a bday or unique occasion maybe. But using these as any kind of replacement for professionally done work feels like a disservice to children.
Good authors+illustrators for children are just so far ahead of any AI generated content right now it’s not even comparable. Something as seemingly simple as Julia Donaldson’s Smartest Giant in Town is a heart warming tale, told along a continuous theme with a consistent voice where the story wraps up beautifully at the end. Then it’s all brought together with delightful illustrations that match and delight so well. They aren’t just good illustrations. They are delightful. Heck. They even have Easter eggs of sorts. All of that gave my son and I so much to discuss, point at, draw, and sing together. Wouldn’t want any child who could have that experience to miss out on it.
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#138My youngest son loves the story about the Three Goats Gruff and also the show Blaze And The Monster Machines on Nickelodeon. One of the first things I thought to do with ChatGPT was ask it to write the story of the Three Goats Gruff as an episode of Blaze. The result was pretty impressive, with Blaze and his friends matching off against a troll to race over a bridge to save three goats. Totally plausible plotline for an episode, and most importantly, my son was thoroughly entertained when I read it.
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Really interesting (assuming I'm correct about how this comment was created) how distinct ChatGPT's writing style already is to me
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#140I did something similar for my younger daughter using MagicStory[1] (not mine). I have told her the story quite a few times at her bed time. She has shown it to her teacher and her friends are "jealous." It has her pictures, kinda morphed like a princess and stuff. Edit: Clarifications. 1. https://magicstory.ai
The images looks neat but the stories are a little bit too simple/shallow aren't they? Another thing. Don't you have a bad feeling uploading images of your kids, conveniently tagged with their age, to a random web service that promises to delete the images without even revealing the makers? I mean yes, it looks legitimate and you can find a person on Twitter who seems to be the maker of it, but that's not a guarantee…
> loading images of your kids ... to a random web service
I used to worry about that... but then someone pointed out to me that there are pretty much no stories of anyone being hurt by that.
Worst case, those images leak all over the web... And then what? The internet is already filled with pictures of people and children, yours won't stand out. The photos aren't tagged by name, and even if they were, few people care about obama as a 5 year old pirate [1], so why would they care about your child?
Overall, the risk of personal harm from a data leak seems really small - so I put my efforts elsewhere, like making sure my child gets to spend more time with me - that's infinitely more valuable.
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