“Good night little girl, in your castle in a cloud. Where rainbows, unicorns and strange creatures can fly” This is how the artificial intelligence GPT-3 suggests that a children’s book for a five-year-old girl should begin. – The idea actually came earlier this autumn when people started getting the opportunity to create different images with the help of AI (artificial intelligence), says Magnus Sæternes Lian. Together with his daughter, he has created the book “The Magic Castle in the Clouds”. Or – he hasn’t really made anything at all. For everything in the book created by artificial intelligence. Both text and images in this book are created by AI. Everything is made by artificial intelligence that is openly available on the internet. But the images had to be tweaked a bit in Photoshop afterwards. Photo: GPT-3 and MidJourney – Simple Magnus Sæternes Lian works as a technologist and is very interested in new technology. It has therefore been a fun little project to make a book together with my daughter. Photo: Private Lian works as a technologist and is above average interested in new technology. Therefore, this autumn he and his daughter have been playing a bit with the tool MidJourney. In the program, you can enter a description of what you want a picture of, then the artificial intelligence creates a unique picture based on this. This autumn also saw the release of a text generator, GPT-3, which uses artificial intelligence to create ready-made texts based on what people want. Then the pieces were in place so that Lian and her daughter could try their hand at a small book project. Together with their daughter, they agreed on what the book should be about. – We wrote straight in that we wanted a story that would contain magical dragons and unicorns going to the moon in a tea party. After we had written this in, the entire text of the book actually came from it, says Lian. The text that the one artificial intelligence had created was entered into the image generator which then created images based on this text. Snap, snap, sniff and the book was out. – I wrote specifically what style direction we wanted so that it became the childish children’s book-inspired style with slightly dreamy images, says Lian. He nevertheless emphasizes that he has no artistic experience. – I think most people who know the tools, and who have a bit of imagination, could do this in one evening. That’s what’s a bit scary too, says Lian. He doesn’t think it took more than a couple of hours to make the book. Not afraid of the job Author Anne B. Ragde believes that an awful lot of bad literature is produced for children. She believes that artificial intelligence can outperform those who create these books. Photo: Vigdsi Wågø-Wares / news Author Anne B. Ragde has written several children’s books during her career. But even if computers can now make books, she doesn’t think she’ll be unemployed just yet. – No, I don’t think so, no. I don’t think a novel can be created by artificial intelligence, says Ragde. But that artificial intelligence can outcompete some writers – she actually believes that. – So many children’s books are published that you never hear about. And many of them are very, very bad. Badly written, bad language, bad concept and bad ending. So an artificial book can compete with many children’s books, unfortunately, she says. The publishing house Cappelen Damm is Norway’s largest publishing house. Publishing manager Ragnfrid Trohaug is responsible for children’s and youth literature there. She thinks it is exciting to hear that a book is made by computers. – Can new technology surpass the artist? It’s a very exciting question, she says. Publishing manager at Cappelen Damm, Ragnfrid Trohaug, is curious about what technology can do for literature. Photo: Ann-Iren Finstad / news The publishing manager is nevertheless skeptical that computers can create better stories than humans. At least today. – We who make a living from storytelling are concerned with bringing out good and unique stories. As of now, only living people can do exactly that, says Trohaug. She is still not averse to the possibility that one day in the future you can get good books made by machines. – I am waiting and curious. It is both scary and exciting to imagine that a story can be told in new ways, she says. The artificial intelligence GPT-3 has been told to create a bedtime story for a little girl. Photo: GPT-3 and MidJourney
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Making a children’s book using artificial intelligence (AI) – news Trøndelag
