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Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney by danielcorin on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:10AM (#34514971)
I was going for more of a kid's book tone but I think I hadn't quite learned enough about the depth and nuance you can introduce into the output via prompting. In retrospect now, I agree it has that generic-AI tone.
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Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney by trmsw on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:21AM (#34515397)
The "all sorts of other whimsical attractions" is especially bad.
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Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney by danielcorin on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:37AM (#34515497)
Absolutely. This was recycled almost directly from some of the prompt material I gave while refining. I've learn more about "prompt engineering" (as it seems to be called) since and think it would be relatively easy to smooth these edges out.
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Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney by trmsw on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:40AM (#34515906)
This reminded me of the rules for fiction in Flaubert's Parrot. They don't include any mention of whimsy, in fact, but it was fun rereading them.
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