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The lack of real effort bothers me more than the content itself. We can't be bothered to even proofread children's books anymore?
The concept of consuming AI generated content for children has always baffled me. We collectively have a virtually infinite collection of already existing hand crafted quality content filtered over the years in the form of children stories and tales that we can pick and chose from to read to our children. We love telling stories especially to our children. Why would ANYONE be enticed by the idea of using AI to genera…
Totalitarian as hell, but I don't see any other way.
I've been wondering what the long term result on peoples perceptions of reality will be after all this AI slop. I've noticed a lot of the times I can spot AI slop videos because they just don't match what I know to be true, I can think "That's an AI video of a fox because I know foxes don't act/move like that" But then the only reason I know that is because I've seen hundreds of videos on the internet before AI gener…
And they don't believe things even can be better because they regularly hear one of the dumbest ideas of our time: that the past wasn't actually better, we only remember it that way.
This seems like an opportunity to celebrate great children's books created with craft and care by humans. I'll start: John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon . ( http://www.howwegottothemoon.com/ )
This seems like an opportunity to celebrate great children's books created with craft and care by humans. I'll start: John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon . ( http://www.howwegottothemoon.com/ )
So mainstream, it has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work
The concept of consuming AI generated content for children has always baffled me. We collectively have a virtually infinite collection of already existing hand crafted quality content filtered over the years in the form of children stories and tales that we can pick and chose from to read to our children. We love telling stories especially to our children. Why would ANYONE be enticed by the idea of using AI to genera…
While I agree with your main point, this isn't exactly true. The quality content in children's media does NOT survive through the ages. There are so many other incentives in children's publishing that quality for children is but one signal among many. Like how a parent will buy a book that teaches a 'good lesson' as a proxy for a good book, which is harder to determine. On top of that, there are systems at play that…
Anyway, check out the caterpillar for the fifty-seventh time.
The concept of consuming AI generated content for children has always baffled me. We collectively have a virtually infinite collection of already existing hand crafted quality content filtered over the years in the form of children stories and tales that we can pick and chose from to read to our children. We love telling stories especially to our children. Why would ANYONE be enticed by the idea of using AI to genera…
By your logic, humans shouldn't write new children's books either, because there is already enough high-quality content already.
There is a mountain of human care and creativity to draw from; and nothing wrong with adding to the mountain.
But why bother with the statistical simulacra of the mountain (or raise your children on it).
This seems like an opportunity to celebrate great children's books created with craft and care by humans. I'll start: John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon . ( http://www.howwegottothemoon.com/ )
keeping on theme: Tomi Ungerer, moon man https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-Tomi-Ungerer/dp/0714855987
( with bonus book ban credentials:
From the time of its publication in 1947 until 1972, the book was "banned" by the New York Public Library due to the then-head children's librarian Anne Carroll Moore's hatred of the book.
According to children's literature expert Betsy Bird, Moore criticized Goodnight Moon due to the fact that she believed it lacked a meaningful narrative structure and educational value.
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