wow the haters are out today! Happy Holidays All! Congratulations to Bob & Arun on the launch!
And so are the AI shills. People are allowed to be critical of things.
Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
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Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#42When Google and OpenAI struggle to filter their own models to be age appropriate, what makes you think you have been able to crack the problem?
Hubris, mostly, same as always.
Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#43More for the landfill I guess
Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#44Wow, a product that exists entirely to deprive children of the ability to develop artistic creativity. It's rare that I see a launch on HN that I could call abjectly evil, but this is certainly it.
How dramatic. It's a little box that lets children make stickers by asking it, it's not "abjectly evil" in any sense.
And asbestos just gives you a little cough. If I weren't already so cynical, this entire thread would certainly do it. You people are so goddamn dismissive in the most repulsive, condescending way.
Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#45> We wanted to let kids combine the power of their ideas with AI tools Why? Kids can combine the power of their ideas with crayons, markers, and pencils.
I think with the right parental guidance/supervision this could be a very fun toy.
From the website it seems like a great way to generate some black and white outlines that kids can still color in. If used like that it seems almost strictly more creative than a coloring book, no? There are plenty of other ways kids can express creativity with pre-made art too. Maybe they use them to illustrate a story they dreamed up? Maybe they decorate something they built with them?
Also, some children might want to have fun be creative in ways that don't involve visual arts. I was never particularly interested in coloring or drawing and still believe myself to be a pretty creative individual. I don't think my parents buying me some stickers robbed me of any critical experience.
Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#46don't mean to steal your customers, but can I just buy good thermal sticker paper somewhere that would work with a regular receipt printer? That would be fun for side nonsense, with or without AI. When I was more youthful I remember getting the avery sticker sheets for a school election, but a roll where someone could do one at a time would be more useful for random stuff.
I have a bluetooth thermal printer and the mobile app has this and other ai features available as a subscription option.
Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I searched their site for any information on "how" they can claim it's safe for kids. This is what I could find: https://stickerbox.com/blogs/all/ai-for-kids-a-parent-s-guid... > No internet open browsing or open chat features. > AI toys shouldn’t need to go online or talk to strangers to work. Offline AI keeps playtime private and focused on creativity. > No recording or long-term data storage. > If it’s recording,…
I'm sure you are correct about being able to do some clever prompting or tricks to get it to print inappropriate stickers, but I believe in this case it may be OK. If you consider a threat model where the threat is printing inappropriate stickers, who are the threat actors? Children who are attempting to circumvent the controls and print inappropriate stickers? If they already know about topics that they shouldn't be…
ChatGPT allegedly has similar guardrails in place, and now has allegedly encouraged minors to commit self-harm. There is no threat actor, it's not a security issue. It's an unsolved, and as far as we know intrinsic problem with LLMs themselves.
The word "accidentally" is slippery, our understanding of how accidents can happen with software systems is not applicable to LLMs.
Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#48Wow, a product that exists entirely to deprive children of the ability to develop artistic creativity. It's rare that I see a launch on HN that I could call abjectly evil, but this is certainly it.
Is your issue with stickers robbing kids of creativity or do all the licensed IP stickers that fill the stores that children buy immune from this criticism?
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#49Lots of hate here, but I think this is clever and some iteration of it will sell well
I get that folks are worried about what AI-generated art will do to kids sense of creativity. Will they still learn to draw? Play instruments? Write stories?
But I genuinely believe that tech like this will only whet their imaginations. I would have had so much fun with this as an 8 year old, and would have spent hours just in my head, dreaming up ways to use my limited stickers.
Ofc parents will still need to encourage them to pick up hard skills (as has always been the case). But having an AI companion will mean they start seeing rewards for their efforts much faster. A shallower learning curve will prove to be a very good thing for most.
Re: Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
More options is better. I think it's possible for a niche to exist for AI creative tools like this.
I'm struggling to find the creative part in having an AI print stickers for a child. Seems like the entire creative part is skipped over.
The amount of permutations of words you can say along with the permutations of drawings you can add to the sticker is a gigantic number. That is a big enough state space for people to express creativity.