it is obvious here that computer programmers have elevated chatGPT to the most sensitive grounds of cultural transmission, right away. Since there is a documented and ongoing mental health crisis with young teens and electronic communication, this appears to be adding fuel to the fire of whatever it is that is going on, that is causing real illness on a large scale.
Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
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Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
All advances in creative tooling are automating creativity. What are you on about? Look at photoshop color selector automates mixing paint, digital filters for audio automate analog mixers. This attitude towards AI creative tools is gatekeeping.
What is wrong with gatekeeping? It's not like everyone needs to be able to make art. Also, i don't know much about Photoshop, but most digitatl filters usually act the same as analog mixers. They do not automate anything.
It's not like everyone needs to make photographic reproductions, why not delegate the task to photorealistic painters? Now that we've gotten used to the convenience of having a camera in our pocket, who would suggest banning photography?
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#263Hello Daniel! We've been working on a platform/tool for this since September. And it's live in Alpha right now, https://bedtimestory.ai We are working on a lot of feature requests and improvements at the moment, and distribution. Text, Audio and Video being the primary use-cases. Making stories 100% editable and upload your own images is also in the works. We are working on "Magic Images" that will allow you to inser…
This is insane, I'm working on a very similar tool but for a specific language. Congrats on the launch and it looks awesome!
Hey! that cool, actually, Bedtimestory.ai works in ANY language, just write the prompt in the language you want, and the story will get generated in that language, PURE magic.
We have not built out the full search, filter and categories for the library yet, but we have stories in +100 different languages.
Super excited to be sharing more in the next few months.
Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
#264Hello Daniel! We've been working on a platform/tool for this since September. And it's live in Alpha right now, https://bedtimestory.ai We are working on a lot of feature requests and improvements at the moment, and distribution. Text, Audio and Video being the primary use-cases. Making stories 100% editable and upload your own images is also in the works. We are working on "Magic Images" that will allow you to inser…
Very nice product, well done. What’s your gtm strategy if I may ask
Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
#265The illustrations are beautiful! Well done this whole thing!
Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
#266A fun experiment but LLM generated stories will never escape the uncanny valley, because they're not novel, they're remixes. I know the critique of that position is "but humans just remix the things they know from the world" but that is the same misunderstanding that those who thought truck driving jobs would be automated by 2018 made about that profession. i.e. The less you know about a field, the more likely you ar…
> Voice is special because of the uniqueness of the human life behind it
This IMO is a handwavy criticism of AI-generated content by people judging content who have the foreknowledge that the content was AI-generated.
To put it another way, pretend it was a year (or more) ago and ChatGPT/Stable Diffusion were ~unknown. You stumble across this kids book. Be completely honest here: would your reaction be "there's no way a human created this book"?
Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a person learns how to paint expertly by looking at (and even copying, stroke for stroke) paintings, would you consider that immoral, and those paintings having been stolen? If not, what would you say the difference is?
This is kind of a tired reasoning. I don’t know what the goal of this kind of reasoning is. The fact is that virtually no one learns or dies art this way. No one in any statistically meaningful amount has a photographic memory and uses such memory to create new art stroke by stroke.
There are many paintings that have been made following along to a Bob Ross video - using the same paints, the same brushes, and the same elements within the painting.
Even after following along and gaining the confidence to paint on their own, they continue to use the same approach to painting. Are those paintings afterwards derivative works and to be treated the same way as an AI painting asked to create a scene with certain elements in the stye of Bob Ross?
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#268Hello Daniel! We've been working on a platform/tool for this since September. And it's live in Alpha right now, https://bedtimestory.ai We are working on a lot of feature requests and improvements at the moment, and distribution. Text, Audio and Video being the primary use-cases. Making stories 100% editable and upload your own images is also in the works. We are working on "Magic Images" that will allow you to inser…
I assume the image gen works on SD and not midjourney as they don't have an api i believe?
We've built a few adapters and the layer between us and the model(s) makes it easy to swap out or support multiple.
Currently we are running 100% on OpenAI, GPT3 & Dalle2, but we have tried some (unofficial MJ solutions) and our own trained SD models. We are working on a feature we call "magic photos" that essentially allows you to upload a set of images of a human, train your own model, and use that in as many stories as you want, you can then create unlimited variations of that character in different situations.
Here are some early versions of that. My daughter as a scientist, in her sci-fi lab. She is created on SD using around 12 images for training, hosting the model ~5gb directly on S3. Then we just use GPU provider pay-per-use to generate the images based on prompts. https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1617675627695583232...
Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, your perspective on this is all wrong. The outrage about AI art is not about how it empowers its users. Rather, the problem is that these systems only exists today because of the involuntary contributions of the very same people who are likely to be put out of business. It really is about the how the contributors to these systems are being treated. The coders that contributed to Photoshop are analogous to the art…
So, my perspective on this is all wrong, despite the fact that the original poster wrote, pretty damn specifically , "Automating creativity is so gross. Never mind the fact that these models are trained on stolen artwork and texts." That's it, that's the entire post. Never mind the "stolen artwork" argument, you still have people upset about "automating creativity". So, like I said, it's one part of it.
My mistake. Your perspective is not all wrong. You're just focusing on the wrong thing.
Re: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
#270My 9-year old wrote and published a book with dalle-2 and openai playground. Chatgpt was not a thing then. It is quite interesting and powerful to see how these AI complement child's unbounded imagination. I would have to say, childrens imagination has more entrop/perplexity than the AI would come up - At the end GPT was merely putting correct grammar and adding the bulk to the story.
Children's imagination is the most undocumented, unexplored frontier of human imagination and I still have hope for humans on this edge of creativity.