Ideal for parents or to make an special gift!
Ideal for parents or to make an special gift!
As a parent, I really see that as a cancer that keeps spreading among children media. I appreciate you probably thought this is a good idea for a business or a project in general but for the sake of our children and us all - please stop.
Just because we can does not mean we should.
People still go to McDonald's.
Weird example though, I care about a human touch in stories far more than in convenience food.
Nope, let’s keep fighting against the things which cheapen our world and support those who enrich our lives.
I kind of get your point but the moments I've been sharing with her thanks to this project are priceless.
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.
There's not just a single way of doing emotionally valuable things and/or a single way of doing "right" things.
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.
Children’s books are some of the most wonderful little pieces of art; art that nurtures, entertains, educates and instills both moral compasses and working funny bones. All of our lives have been enriched by them. Some children’s stories continue to enrich us for all of our lives.
This doesn’t just steal work from those artists working today, but it steals from every artist who came before. It adds nothing to humanity; it robs so much.
It also destroys nature to do it. It robs from the world and worsens humanity.
Why do it? Money? Infamy? Internet points?
Please delete the project and do something worthwhile.
It has nothing to do, but the morality prevents you and many others from seeing through.
Morality is precisely what's at stake here.
He created something and shared it with the world. It's not to your taste and that's fine. But don't knock someone down for having a red hot go at something.
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.
It's theft and you are a fence.
Getting to the goal faster can be great. I've started illustrating books for my son and I can see the appeal for this tool, especially as a non-artist.
But to me the journey to a arrive at a book (sketching, going to the library, buying books together) are the things that ultimately create memories and meaning. AI should allow you to have more time for these activities rather than removing them entirely.
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.
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.
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