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Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by Indoctus on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:21AM (#38228730)
It wrote a story called the headless horseman that isn't the headless horseman. Seems to suffer from the usual lack of intent that AI art has.
Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by niksmac on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:26AM (#38228752)
Thanks for the enthusiasm. With all due respect, this experiment is not to solve the problem of AI in general, I am hoping this would help parents/teachers to spend quality time with children.
Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by Obscurity4340 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @08:04AM (#38229978)
Can it retain any stories so if the kid wants to hear it again later, that's an option?
Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by niksmac on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:50AM (#38230744)
Yes. You can create an account and you will get all the stories you generated for you forever.

For now take a look at this one if you will. https://storybee.app/story/the-flowing-blue-river-654f92cb3d...

Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by Obscurity4340 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:57AM (#38230824)
What's the Privacy Policy in non-lawyerly terms ;)
Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by niksmac on Saturday November 11, 2023 @10:14AM (#38230997)
We want to make things as simple as possible for our users to understand not googlish or facebookish :D
Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by Obscurity4340 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @05:04PM (#38270477)
Do "you" get them forever too? Like do we have a little buddy in you to help us share knowledge and control over such content?
Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by mathgeek on Saturday November 11, 2023 @02:01PM (#38233361)
I am not a lawyer, but I would be careful with saying “you will get… forever” on a public forum as a representative of your company. That doesn’t seem to be what your site terms specify:

> As a default, StoryBee and/or its licensors hold the intellectual property rights for all material on StoryBee.

Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by sorokod on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:58PM (#38233326)
Do you observe a gap in children's literature that needs to be filled by synthetically generated stories?

Edit, just realized it is a payed service with "third-party advertisers".

Perfect for unengaged parents.

Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by fy20 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @12:07AM (#38237502)
Here are two issues I have experienced that I feel generated content could help with:

1) My wife and I have different native languages, and we want to teach our children both. A big issue we have is that we can only get books in one of those languages where we live, so whenever we travel to see family we always come back with a suitcase full of books, but we have less books than we would like.

2) My children ask "how does this work" and a book would be a great way to teach them. If it's something I don't know we turn to YouTube, but the quality of that is often lacking and not aimed at children (they are under 5). Example: I was asked why cars get holes when they get old.

Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by sorokod on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:56AM (#38237983)
Thanks for sharing an angle I didn't consider.

Responsibility of parents aside, I think it boils down to awailability vs. quality.

Two analogies capture this tradeoff

* Junk food to food

* Stable diffusion to art

Re:Show HN: Stories for Kids Using AI by Indoctus on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:51AM (#38300377)
the whole point of children's stories is to give them some kind of moral or lesson. Unless the kid's really young, in which case it's just to teach them the language. What is machine wordmash going to do besides make brainrot worse?