Thanks for your comment and wishes. Your son is lucky to have you and those unique stories!
I prefer to not think on absolutes and I believe that there are many different ways to create emotional/valuable stuff though! And if AI (or any other tool) helps me creating those I'll welcome them.
Thanks! From my own personal experience, my 3YO daughter loves them and reading those to her as bedtime stories has been very much common lately!
I purchased other custom books created in more "traditional" ways, although I assume there has to be some degree of automation too, and the experience feels similar, she even resembles way more in these than in the traditional ones.
Amongst other things, I'm writing children's books.
Each one is a labour of love that takes years to produce. It requires detailed thought from word choices, character design, world-building, characters, to fun plot twists. It's really hard and takes a lot of work. It's taken me over a decade to teach myself how to do it. I've been working on my current book for over two years.
My government has decided that my copyright is invalid for AIs. So, as soon as it is published, years of hard work will be slurped into the mediocracy machine for anyone—like you—to abuse.
I built this project originally for my 3YO daughter and I've generated and read so many stories to her while building it. Those moments are priceless and made it worthwile alone.
Now just imagine how much more meaningful those moments would have been if it had been a story that you actually wrote rather than something cobbled together from the works of previous writers and artists by an algorithm.
Thanks for your feedback! I myself read these to my 3YO daughter and it's true that sometimes I have to adapt the text on the fly. Always room for improvement!
So I've been trying to think of a reply to you that isn't personal.....so I'll use my own son as an example.
If I used this project to tell my son stories, I would be worried that all of it is ultimately disposable. He might remember a story he liked years later but it won't exist unless I saved the PDF. It doesn't have an author that you might look up and see their other works There's no one behind it. You might think this is worthless, especially for a child as young as 3, but I assure you it's not.
It is, like someone else called it - ghastly. It's an echo of what actual kids stories are.
You know printers exist right? You can create a physical book in which he'll be the main character of the story in whatever scenario he likes the most. I remember receiving one of those as a child and I remembered it for life. Try asking for a famous author to create that one for you.
There's not just a single way of doing emotionally valuable things and/or a single way of doing "right" things.
>>You can create a physical book in which he'll be the main character of the story in whatever scenario he likes the most. I remember receiving one of those as a child and I remembered it for life.
And I believe that this is not only inherently worse than reading existing stories, it's actively bad for our children and us a society. Obviously it looks like we'll disagree on this.
On-demand printing is on the roadmap. Yes you can do it yourself if you want, same as with any other existing tool, but there has been time and effort invested to get the best results with the minimal effort, and it can just keep improving!
