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

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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…

counterpoint; separating the wheat from the chaff is already terribly difficult, and perhaps this will provide the necessary motivation to produce an effective method of doing so.

Google, once upon a time, solved a similar problem. With all the information on the internet, how do you find the good stuff? The relevant stuff? I don't think it does this job at the moment - and perhaps flooding the world with content will create the conditions for the next major disruptor to create something that actually works rather than this ad-bloated nonsense we have now.

It already takes a ton of my time seeking out books and other media that align with what I want. Humans have done a spectacular job of creating stuff that's minimally acceptable to make a sale. AI isn't creating the problem you're talking about, even if it is making it worse.

Perhaps it will become bad enough that it becomes worthwhile to fix.

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

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post #28

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.

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

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post #31

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…

> throwaway675309 Are you afraid of Roko's Basilisk?

No, just Jenny.

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

#44
post #13

How long did this take to put together?

~15 minutes with ChatGPT to turn the initial plot into a story with the tone and length I was looking for, an hour or two with Midjourney illustrating and a few more hours for the site from zero to up and running.

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

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe an app for parents to make one with the content they want available as an ebook for x a month

I'm working on something like this

the Young Women's Illustrated Primer?

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

#48

Can tell it was written by ChatGPT. Has that kind of verboseness to it, can't quite put my finger on.

I was going for more of a kid's book tone but I think I hadn't quite learned enough about the depth and nuance you can introduce into the output via prompting. In retrospect now, I agree it has that generic-AI tone.

The "all sorts of other whimsical attractions" is especially bad.
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