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

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Post by iambateman »

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…

Yea I’m with you. If a children’s story is primarily a generic - albeit engaging - plot, then I think AI will be very successful at telling new stories.

But as a means of cultural encoding to help children understand what matters in the world and how they - specifically - fit into that world, it’s going to come up short.

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

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

wildrhythms wrote: post #181
robertlagrant wrote: post #146

Earlier 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?

The difference is that a human made the artistic stroke-for-stroke reproduction through human skill and expertise. Even a counterfeit painting is an exercise of perception and interpretation. The value is in the human's hand in the output.

That’s actually a good point. It is very much a non-trivial ability.

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

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Post by throwaway4aday »

gt565k wrote: post #121

Expecting the “Made by humans” stickers and labeling any day now. As AI generated content becomes mainstream, we’ll see product labeling like we do with organic produce to differentiate the source.

It'll be short lived if it is even a thing. Forget bicycles, you're looking at a power loom for the mind. The next industrial revolution is here.

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

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Post by hazzahzah »

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 insane, I'm working on a very similar tool but for a specific language. Congrats on the launch and it looks awesome!

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

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho »

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…

I assume the image gen works on SD and not midjourney as they don't have an api i believe?

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

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Post by MattGaiser »

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…

I can see the usage being between parent and kid more than producing best sellers. Or a way to give a kid a cheap but special gift.

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

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Post by the_af »

MattGaiser wrote: post #237
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…

I can see the usage being between parent and kid more than producing best sellers. Or a way to give a kid a cheap but special gift.

Yes, but that's precisely the usage I find upsetting!

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

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Post by dwringer »

theden wrote: post #224
driscoll42 wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? This may be AI generated to an extent, but it's also showing that the author and friends worked together and put together a labor of fun and love for a pair of friends. That'll have more meaning to that family than a random kid's book.

Yeah that's nice sentiment but I don't know, kids don't care about that sort of stuff. I'd rather spend a few hours researching paperback kid's books that could positively impact their growth and plant seeds—made by career artists and writers. It's about the kid, not OP and the parents. This is like giving a kid an AI-generated JRPG game you made in an afternoon vs giving them a Final Fantasy game.

Honestly when I was a kid I would have been all about the AI-generated JRPG at least 60% over playing the latest Final Fantasy. I couldn't get enough different games at that age, so I'd absolutely enthusiastically dive into both.

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

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Post by AvAn12 »

It's almost like the "I" should be in quotes. Because if anyone else in the world gave ChatGPT the same prompts, they would get more-or-less the same story. (visual generative AI is different).

I think this makes things like college essay generation less scary. If two students prompt ChatGPT with "write a personal statement for the common application for college" or whatever, ChatGPT will more-or-less produce the same generic statement, with minor variations. It can not personalize for each student because it doesn't know anything about either student. Prompt engineering? Ok sure, but by the time I have written a prompt that is comprehensive enough to make an essay that describes me, I've basically written the essay myself.

So anyway, I imagine people will try to copyright output from generative AI responses - interesting question about "who" produced that output.

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