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Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Post by nstart »

There 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 entirely generic and forgettable (unlike the artworks of legends like Axel Scheffler or Sara Ogilvie).

I can foresee a very near future where this market is absolutely overrun with auto generated books + artwork. I don't think of this as a good or bad thing. It's just going to be interesting to see who gets the first jump on this.

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Post by Brajeshwar »

throwaway675309 wrote: post #18

Yeah there was a very viral piece of news last month about a guy who did this exact same thing for his kid: https://80.lv/articles/children-s-book-generated-with-chatgp... Though I think the overall response was mixed. EDIT: coincidentally enough, both share a character with the same name, "sparkles". All of these GPT generated plots have the same formulaic tone to them.

Yes, I just checked. The fairy in my daughter's book is also "Sparkles". I believe it uses the same back-end engine.

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Post by eddsh1994 »

nstart wrote: post #21

There 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

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Post by throwaway675309 »

I hate to be the contrarian voice, but I really don't like where things are headed with these types of assistive tools.

I like the idea of using it partially to help complement some effort that you've done yourself, but the idea that you're using both an LLM to produce the story and a diffusion model to produce the pictures makes the entire piece of work almost devoid of individual effort.

Using them to produce a private story for your own child is a noble enough effort, but I'm seeing lots of comments on wanting to get these types of things published. With the explosion of these vanity press level dime novel tabloid literary works, it will be that much more difficult to sift out the wheat from the chaff.

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Post by TMWNN »

throwaway675309 wrote: post #18

Yeah there was a very viral piece of news last month about a guy who did this exact same thing for his kid: https://80.lv/articles/children-s-book-generated-with-chatgp... Though I think the overall response was mixed. EDIT: coincidentally enough, both share a character with the same name, "sparkles". All of these GPT generated plots have the same formulaic tone to them.

>EDIT: coincidentally enough, both share a character with the same name, "sparkles". All of these GPT generated plots have the same formulaic tone to them.

100% relevant: "Someday" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story)> by Isaac Asimov, 1956

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Post by marcell »

throwaway675309 wrote: post #25

I hate to be the contrarian voice, but I really don't like where things are headed with these types of assistive tools. I like the idea of using it partially to help complement some effort that you've done yourself, but the idea that you're using both an LLM to produce the story and a diffusion model to produce the pictures makes the entire piece of work almost devoid of individual effort. Using them to produce a pri…

Completely agree. People really don't understand where this is going. It's not like society lacks mediocre mid-brow content as it is. LLM's and diffusion models reduce the cost of production to basically zero, and we now have an endless supply mediocre content. Extend it out a few 10x improvements, and we get an endless stream of so-so Netflix shows produced with zero effort. Basically WALL-E made real.

Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

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Post by sacrosancty »

throwaway675309 wrote: post #25

I hate to be the contrarian voice, but I really don't like where things are headed with these types of assistive tools. I like the idea of using it partially to help complement some effort that you've done yourself, but the idea that you're using both an LLM to produce the story and a diffusion model to produce the pictures makes the entire piece of work almost devoid of individual effort. Using them to produce a pri…

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