I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools… and by combining all of them, published a children’s book co-written and illustrated by AI!
Here’s how! 🧵
First, the idea: I wanted a story showing the magic of AI to children. I gave ChatGPT a prompt and went back and forth with it to refine details and get inspiration for the illustrations. It was like having a constant brainstorming partner who I could ping pong ideas off of.
Then, I took those ideas to MidJourney and gave it prompt after prompt till I could get a somewhat consistent style. This took a few hours but it was such a fun process playing with all the different styles!
There were also some hilarious results 😂 what’s going on with those eyes and hands?!
I combined all of those and put them together in a book format and signed up to Amazon Kindle Publishing! Filled out the book details, created a little cover, even had ChatGPT help me with the description.
And BOOM. In a weekend, from idea, to illustrations, to becoming a publisher author! You can check out the book on Amazon here :)
US: a.co/aN0IVPx
UK: amzn.eu/d/0sjE7lC
And if you have any kids you want to gift this to, let me know! I’d love to send you a copy!
Adding this to the main thread after a lot of helpful convos with folks willing to discuss—this is a PSA!
There are serious, incredibly valid concerns from artists and writers about all this technology. Their emotional responses are fair, we should listen and instead should ask:
To the creators of these tools at OpenAI & MidJourney: how do we ensure protections for artists / train models on consent? Their talent, skill, hard work to get there needs to be respected.
In fact we should involve them in the the creation of these tools so they’re heard.
This was all a test of what’s possible, but I’ll be waiting to hear more on the above before proceeding to create more content. Thank you to those who were willing to discuss despite the emotions this all unintentionally but very fairly spurred. I appreciate you.
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