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

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Sorry, but the story is missing a very important ingredient for a kids book: I can not identify any deeper moral or social or any idea. While stories "just for fun" have of course a right to exist, it is very questionable to fill your kids brain solely with random, empty, meaningless fun stories. Stories for kids are an important part of helping to build a moral compass for the world. Besides "getting rich quick with…

of course it is empty and has no moral It was made with AI art and AI text. To do so fundamentally treats creativity as a cost center and this is the result.

Eh, it isn't the AI's fault...

This is the plot he used to feed the AI: "Once upon a time there was porcupine. Every day, she baked a loaf of bread. One day the loaf disappeared. Because of that, she had too much butter. Because of that, things got slippery. Until finally she opened the first ever butter theme park."

I can bet you that if you specifically asked the AI to include some morals it would do so

In fact I'll show you.

Input: what are some values that could be included in a children's book with the following plot: Once upon a time there was porcupine. Every day, she baked a loaf of bread. One day the loaf disappeared. Because of that, she had too much butter. Because of that, things got slippery. Until finally she opened the first ever butter theme park.

Output:

Some values that could be included in a children's book with this plot could include:

Perseverance: The porcupine continues to bake bread even after it goes missing, and she uses her excess butter to create something new and exciting.

Creativity: The porcupine comes up with the idea for a butter theme park, showing that it's possible to turn a problem into an opportunity.

Resourcefulness: The porcupine uses her excess butter to create something new and exciting, rather than letting it go to waste.

Entrepreneurship: The porcupine opens the first ever butter theme park, demonstrating the importance of taking initiative and starting one's own business.

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

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These look amazing! Did you build MagicStory?

I did :)

Congrats, looks really amazing! May I ask what your AI stack is? Do you use MidJourney for the images and GPT for the stories or something else? How do you ensure the output stays consistent across images - do you use the seed image and a custom set of prompts for each image, or did you use eg StableDiffusion and did some customized training à la Dreambooth to ensure consistency? Is the workflow fully automated, or are the outputs reviewed and the prompts iterated on manually?

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

#93
post #26

Awesome. I built StoryPanda[1] to do something similar. My daughter, and kids of my friends absolutely love creating a story every night. 1. https://storypanda.ai

Hey Obaid, I built something similar, https://storybird.ai/ . Want to chat?

Me too: https://storykoala.ai/

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

#94
post #78

I don't know how to think about this: On one side, it might be nice to create stories that fit a specific want/desire for what a child might need. We might even go for the concept of a segment of one kind of story. On the other hand, I am picky with the stories I read to my child. I see stories I read as education. They transmit some non-conscious cultural things about being human, about handling this reality and the…

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

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I did something similar back in early 2021 (that I ended up self-publishing for fun). It turned out ok at best, but it was a pretty fun project - it's now a cool snapshot of AI generation technology of the time.

The progress that has been made in text and image generation over the last ~2 years is insane.

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

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I have been trying to use GPT-J or GPT-NeoX to create stories, but they all come out very strange. Here's one I generated using https://textsynth.com/playground.html and a prompt "Once upon a time there was a mouse called Miisa. One day she": "Once upon a time there was a mouse called Miisa. One day she was driving through the woods and she saw a beautiful castle in the middle of nowhere. She didn’t go in but wanted…

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

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post #79

Sorry, but the story is missing a very important ingredient for a kids book: I can not identify any deeper moral or social or any idea. While stories "just for fun" have of course a right to exist, it is very questionable to fill your kids brain solely with random, empty, meaningless fun stories. Stories for kids are an important part of helping to build a moral compass for the world. Besides "getting rich quick with…

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

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post #78

I don't know how to think about this: On one side, it might be nice to create stories that fit a specific want/desire for what a child might need. We might even go for the concept of a segment of one kind of story. On the other hand, I am picky with the stories I read to my child. I see stories I read as education. They transmit some non-conscious cultural things about being human, about handling this reality and the…

Absolutely, there's always a moral to a story in any well-known children book. As for trusting the old, well-tested stories more, I agree, we all grew up on them, but they also hold a darker side as many of the classics also hide a lot of subtle old days social and gender stereotypes and references, as well as many hidden sexual allegories that I personally don't really want my kids to buy into - from banal ones like portraying aristocrats as superior, to the really foobar ones with all these passive princesses just sitting and waiting for that one prince charming to come and rescue them. Hats off to the new wave of fairytales (like e.g. Shrek) that are now trying to move away from all these stereotypes.
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