The Story Book feature of Gemini is a hell of a lot of fun. I used text from an old blog post to create a story book, and it did a very good job adding little details to fill out my account into a full story:
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| The Master of Fate |
Interestingly, the first time I forgot to tell it to pitch the book at adults, and it generated something a lot more light hearted:
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| The Curious Traveler |
Finally, I asked it to create one based on my really boring adventure in SWG from the same post above:
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| The Grind |
To me it's actually a much more entertaining than the first one, which runs completely counter to the point I was trying to make in the post! However, Gemini somehow figured out I was talking about a MMO, and added appropriate small details, which is quite impressive. It also came up with a title that encapsulates the point I was going for quite well.
Another surprise I got when trying to find the Storybook feature I first read about on Bhagpuss's blog, is that there is a small press that published children's books called Gemini Books.* I have to think that Gemini becoming synonymous with AI produced children's books could do some damage to their brand. I wonder how that will play out.
It's also hard to believe that this blog has been active for longer now than it was after I first started it. I fired it up in 2008 and then shut it down in 2012. However, I came back in 2018 and now have posted at least a little for eight full years. I even have a mostly written post comparing MMORPGs to eurypterids that will go up soonish, and I feel like three posts a year still counts as "active." Happy hunting regardless, and thanks for stopping by!
*Oddly, that publisher has become much harder to find on Google today, I had to use Bing to get that link.
The first one is really quite unpleasant, the second very sweet but the last one is very clever and barely reads like AI at all. I'm curious whether 1 and 2 were created using the exact same text. If so, Gemini is doing a hell of a clean-up job for the kiddies.
ReplyDeleteThe really impressive thing about the Storybook feature, though, is the way the illustration stays consistent throughout. That's been a huge problem with Gen AI until pretty recently but it looks like they've cracked it here.
I'm going to have make a few more of these now.
Bah! On the laptop and forgot I wasn't signed in. That was me.
DeleteThe first two did come from the exact same text. See the post linked at the top. That second story was used as a prompt both times. It's honestly startling how different yet internally consistent the stories are. The first one takes a somewhat dark story and makes it even darker, to the point that I agree it's pretty unpleasant to read. The second one is the same story reimagined as something saccharine sweet for children.
DeleteThe third one is the one that impressed me as well, and certainly the only one of the three that might be worth reading outside of the context of this post. It picked up on the tone I was going for in my brief description of a game experience I wasn't very impressed with, and created a bit of sarcastic humor from it.