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

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Post by pixl97 »

makoto12 wrote: post #198
lfkdev wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it works, it'll be used. Are you grossed out when using a calculator? I hope so

Mathematical concepts are in the public domain. The art used to train these models are not

I mean the concept of public domain is fungible when companies like Disney can pay off their favorite politicians to get 20 more years of monopolies on their ideas that 'steal' from the society they live in.

Being that there is enough of a debate on this topic alone that's been raging for decades it's not easily decidable by a one liner.

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Post by Wistar »

sporkland wrote: post #294
weeksie wrote: post #249

A 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…

> A 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…

What are “books for cities?”

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Post by linusekenstam »

moneywoes wrote: post #264
linusekenstam wrote: post #144

Hello 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

There is a bit of all, content, publishers and self-served.

We already have +10.000 registered users (most signed up in the past 30 days)

About 20.000 stories are generated and some 50.000 images

We are releasing about 2000 books on Amazon with 10 stories per book, and pay royalties back to the creators of each story.

So there will be a lot of noise, essentially we are taking on the big fish.

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

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Post by linusekenstam »

nemo44x wrote: post #293
linusekenstam wrote: post #144

Hello 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 really awesome. I sent it off to my wife to check out for the little ones. Good luck on this - I think you're going to have a lot of success here. Time to disrupt the publishing industry!

Thank you so much for this.

To be clear, Bedtimestories is just the beginning, its an easy target, and easy to market. Our mission is a lot bigger, we want to become "the narrative company" and are building the tools to make that happen.

Excited, and hope to have you and the wife and kids along for the ride!

/ Linus

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Post by gfodor »

weeksie wrote: post #249

A 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…

It feels like an LLM should easily be able to handle this problem. Some of these kinds of authoritative voices are almost certainly represented in its latent space.

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Post by leesec »

weeksie wrote: post #249

A 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…

>A fun experiment but LLM generated stories will never escape the uncanny valley, because they're not novel, they're remixes.

I don't know how we get this myth to stop perpetuating but it does not ring true to me at all. LLM's has proven to have "novelty" many times now.

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Post by pandemicsoul »

the_af wrote: post #221

As an experiment, this is cool. As actual usage? I enjoy making stories up (or misremembering existing ones) for my daughter. The human touch is valuable to me. I also wonder: many well-loved stories of today started as a story the writer was telling his/her children; one example is The Hobbit. What if Tolkien had thought "screw this, I'm overworked and tired, I'll just type some prompt for ChatGPT and it will be eno…

> But I can't help thinking that this is solving a problem no actual humans have.

This. There are 10000 children's books out there with coherent art sets and a storyline that's not just total gibberish.

This kind of crap is no better than SEO blogs. Its only purpose is to pump out massive amounts of content in the hopes of earning a small amount of money on each squirt of crap that maybe amounts to something over the long term.

Build good things. Solve problems. That's how you make money.

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Post by cameroncooper »

weeksie wrote: post #249

A 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…

You say it's not novel, but I loved the twist where they decided to open a theme park.

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Post by The-Bus »

wpietri wrote: post #301
xienze wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 wa…

My reaction would still be, "This is a pretty bad children's book." The reason I might not have guessed it was a machine creation is that the prose is adequate on a technical level, and previous markers for machine creation included wonky prose. But going forward we'll all learn new markers for machine-created dreck.

This is as bad as some self-published children's books, but in a different way.

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Post by now__what »

weeksie wrote: post #249

A 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…

I've been using AI image generators to help me brainstorm compositions/colors/themes for traditional artworks. Your note about lack of "coherent viewpoint" very much rings true for AI-generated visual arts. The AI will get many patterns/images "right" in a given piece but has no sense of how far to take those patterns or how different components attach or relate to each other.

Even so, it's a fun and interesting tool to use alongside traditional media, so I'm excited to see it improve.

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