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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 :)

Really cool idea, but I would feel uneasy uploading my child's picture to your website. All I have is your promise that you're going to delete them later.

By the way, if I may ask: since story generation seems to be free, what is your business model?

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

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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'l…

GPT-3 is great at giving generic advice, true. But that aside, it surprises me how uncritical HN seems to be when it comes to children's books. Sure, they may look simple at first glance but a lot of thought and work goes into good children's books and likewise children can get a lot out of them if they're done right. It's not that the story necessarily has to have a moral, though many do. It's that they're funny and…

AI art was born from VC technologists' disrespect for art. It's not surprising they don't respect children's book writing as an actual skill. Just a cost center to be automated.

This coming from a group who by and large probably hasn't written creatively in their entire lives.

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

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Does anyone here really think that AI will produce a new "Jungle Book" by Kipling or a new "Mona Lisa" by Da Vinci or a new "Requiem" by Mozart" which could even have a remote possibility of becoming cultural icon and reference? And is that a goal or event that the spectators are waiting for? And if it occurs what would it infer about human cultural evolution?

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

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Every time the copyright is challenged by a newcomer, we have a revolution for communication. When google and youtube came along and scraped everyone's content with little regard for copyrights, a new world was created. I hope all the lawsuits fall through, so that AI generated content can do the same thing

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

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Every time the copyright is challenged by a newcomer, we have a revolution for communication. When google and youtube came along and scraped everyone's content with little regard for copyrights, a new world was created. I hope all the lawsuits fall through, so that AI generated content can do the same thing

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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…

In Roald Dahls short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator", it becomes impossible to separate the generated from the human. The machine initially is published under fake names, but what most don't realize is that for even established authors the profession no longer exists and they are left with the choice of destitution or licensing their names under which the the machines books can continue to be published.

"And worse is yet to come. Today, as the secret spreads, many more are hurrying to tie up with Mr Knipe. And all the time the screw turns tighter for those who hesitate to sign their names.

This very moment, as I sit here listening to the howling of my nine starving children in the other room, I can feel my own hand creeping closer and closer to that golden contract that lies over on the other side of the desk.

Give us strength, Oh Lord, to let our children starve"

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