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Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
- xnx 1y agoThe quality of the images, text, and layout was very high for the simple prompt I tried it with.
- bongodongobob 1y agoI can't seem to get it to work. It just summarizes whatever I plug in. Edit: Even without giving it context, at best, just get a single picture and two paragraphs. Maybe they are slowly rolling the feature out. It doesn't seem to get it.
- xnx 1y agoTry this link: https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook
- bongodongobob 1y agoThank you!
- ethan_smith 1y agoTry starting your prompt with "Create a storybook about..." - this specific phrasing seems to be the trigger phrase that activates the full storybook generation mode.
- _giorgio_ 1y agohttps://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook
- HelloUsername 1y agohttps://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook redirects me to https://gemini.google.com/app https://gemini.google.com/app, and when I ask "Create me a storybook" it replies with "Creating a full storybook with multiple images in one go is a bit tricky for me right now. My current tools have a limitation where I can only generate one image at a time, and a storybook needs many pictures to go with each page."
- _giorgio_ 1y agoSorry for that, I'm logged in Google it that makes any difference. I have some paid plans but no Google ai plans. Maybe it's different in different countries. I'm in Italy.
- gigel82 1y agoDamn... pretty good. Generated a 10 page booklet including high quality graphics and cohesive story right on point with my prompt. It would've taken me at least an hour mucking around with LLMs and image generators to get the same result that it spit out in ~30 seconds.
- bongodongobob 1y agoAre you just asking it to make a Storybook? I can't get it to work. Just an image and two paragraphs.
- xnx 1y agoTry this link: https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook
- aeontech 1y agoThe ending tag in the demo video is "For stories only you could imagine" That's... uh... a pretty bold description for a tool where you are in fact outsourcing the "imagination" part to the machine.
- BoorishBears 1y agoI work on a product that uses AI to write interactive stories and I think it's a perfect description. People hear my product "writes stories" and always ask why the site doesn't have any features to share a full story: because it wouldn't make sense. It'd be like listening to a stream of every song a person has ever played for themselves. Maybe they didn't write the songs, but they chose them based on the moment. Sometimes they start a song and skip half way because they already got the emotion, sometimes they repeat the saddest part 10 times. They weren't trying to build a playlist for others to consume, it was for them, and only they could have come up with it.
- slongfield 1y agoI asked it to create the kind of storybook my toddler would have asked for ("create a storybook about a music truck and an ice cream truck and a mailman and a carwash", inspired by his request for a story last night), and the results were certainly... interesting. Obviously Gemini doesn't know that "music truck" is another name for "ice cream truck", but more concerningly, the illustrations it made for the trucks were this kind of eldritch amalgamation of Cars-movie style cars and people driving cars. The story was just OK, I don't think it would have kept my toddler's attention for the whole ten pages. Plus, the mailman is barely involved.
- bionhoward 1y agogemini app is really funny because they ship ridiculously complicated features like this before fixing the basic ability to have a chat history with apps activity turned off Imagine the meetings where they decide to add personal illustrated storybooks before fixing chat histories
- rmonvfer 1y agoI think that’s on purpose (the chat history thing), because they actually keep the data (I’m the admin in a Workspace and even though we have Apps Activity turned off, everything still gets logged for compliance and I cannot disable it) But yeah, it’s Google after all
- Workaccount2 1y agoFew companies are more gifted than Google at having an incoherent product approach.
- scarface_74 1y agoI like to say that they have the attention span of a crack addled flea. But isn’t because of the promo culture? My n=1 of BigTech experience is that promos are based on “impact” and it’s a lot harder to show impact maintaining and improving existing features. That might explain why there are over a dozen different ways to run a Docker container at AWS. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-17-ways-to-run-containers-on-aws/ https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-17-ways-to-run-contai...
- XenophileJKO 1y agoNobody gets promoted for fixing bugs. That is the sad state of big tech. My theory is this misalignment of incentives is probably at the heart of most of our quality rot in software. Product managers are incentivized to create new features that boost the daily active users, while generally blind to the death by a thousand cuts caused by all the quality issues.
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- stillpointlab 1y agoI asked it to create a story that described the modes of the major scale with a cartoon treble clef as the main character. It created a 10 page story that stuck to the topic and was overall coherent. The main character changed color and style on every page, so no consistency there. The overall page layouts and animation style were reasonably consistent. The metaphor it used was the character climbing a mountain and encountering other characters that represented each mode. Each supporting character was reasonably unique, although note motif was present on 3 or 4. The mountain also changed significantly and the character was frequently back at the bottom. However, in the end, he does reach the summit. I can't say I am overly impressed but it does mostly do what they claim.
- niemyjski 1y agoI tried this to and had the same experience on half the books I tried to create. A lot of products I've tried have this issue and I think it will get better. I've been using and will stick to KidsAIStory as it allows me to use the same characters across the books. Also my child would be sad that they can't read their favorite series when google kills off another product.
- neilv 1y ago> "This is my kid’s drawing. He’s 7 years old. Write a creative storybook that brings his drawing to life.” Is there something lost, when it's not the adult telling the child a bedtime improv story? (IME, kids love this.) Is something else gained by the generated storybook?
- arrosenberg 1y ago> Is something else gained by the generated storybook? The opportunity for low-effort, low-talent grifters to make a buck on Amazon?
- pamelafox 1y agoI think it'd be amazing if I had the energy to make up improv bedtime stories every night. (We have a "King Dragon" improv series happening lately, which involves a lot of farts) BUT, I don't always have that energy, and I already spend hours a day reading stories to my kids, so I am okay with them spending some fraction of time hearing stories from robots/screens/etc. (Lately, it's "Hey Google, tell a story" if mommy is too busy to read) I hope we never stop paying amazing children's book illustrators though! I have so many books where I marvel at each page and the ingenuity of the illustrative style.
- pamelafox 1y agoLol, I just tried to get it to draw the story about King Dragon farting, but it could not come up with a picture of a dragon farting - it turned it into fire coming from its mouth instead! It's too far outside its training data. Link: https://g.co/gemini/share/188609ce3e1f https://g.co/gemini/share/188609ce3e1f
- sim04ful 1y agoReminds me of The Primer from Diamond Age
- thimabi 1y agoThat is so cool! Thanks for the Gemini team for working on that, a great and innovative feature. Just a heads up: as I tried to print several stories to PDF, most times one of the generated images did not appear on the PDF. It’s surely a bug of some sort, because regenerating stories eventually makes it go away. Hope these kinds of issues will be fixed soon.
- insane_dreamer 1y agoIt would be nice if Google could make Gemini in Slides and Sheets more than completely useless. Then we can talk about illustrated storybooks.
- rahimnathwani 1y agohttps://g.co/gemini/share/8d296b91b77b https://g.co/gemini/share/8d296b91b77b
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- a11r 1y agoNice ! Curious what your prompt was.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoUsing a Claymation art style, create a storybook about why zero point nine recurring is equal to one.
- hopelite 1y agoNot to sound hyperbolic and this is really just the beginning of significant AI, but will there be anything left for humans to do or create when all this is done?
- disillusioned 1y agoWill there be humans left when all this is done?
- omegaworks 1y agobookslop! get your bookslop here!
- _giorgio_ 1y agoThis is just incredible. Finally it gives generated text and images some sort of coherence that makes everything immediately "usable". It is easier to develop something from a lot of text and images than having to assemble everything from zero. Hope that it's editable too?
- ijidak 1y ago> Try it today in the Gemini app. Available globally on desktop and mobile... They refer (sort of) to a desktop app on the page, but I've never seen a Gemini desktop app. It seems they're just saying the web app on desktop... I don't understand why Google doesn't have a true desktop app nor keyboard shortcuts. These things are so easy... (Especially the keyboard shortcuts.) Their execution on everything but the model just seems terrible.
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- mnewme 1y agoPretty consistent, but the story quality is a bit bad, really boring. So many startups in that space that now get killed. Oscar Stories is going to have a hard time
- leopoldj 1y agoI gave it a properly developed story. Gemini altered it somewhat to fit it in 10 pages. It was more than acceptable. But the illustrations, asked for in the style of oil paining, could have been better. We will get there.
- cnych 1y agoThe problem of character consistency still exists.
- lm28469 1y agoDoes anyone in these companies stops and thinks "wtf are we actually building" ? I feel like we're in a parody, even the previous VR hype cycle seemed somewhat serious in comparison Like, why is one of the richest man on the planet getting all giggly presenting us "a fairy sloth in a magical forest"? https://imgur.com/1naGLfp https://imgur.com/1naGLfp
- arnaudsm 1y agoWhy are so many AI demos about automating parenting? Just spend more time with your kids, they want connection!
- missingdays 1y ago"If only I could spend less time with my kids and instead more time on implementing a new feature until the end of the month" - an ideal employee through the eyes of the employer
- gherkinnn 1y agoPeople like to solve their own problems.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoLikewise, if you rent a book from the library, you're outsourcing your parenting to some random author. Isn't the point of this you have a customized book in like 5 minutes, and you can spend time sharing it with your child? Presumably you aren't just throwing the book at them and telling them to read it. If you spent hours drawing a book, would that mean you can spend more time with your kids?
- dmonitor 1y agoKids have low standards, so you can sell low quality content if you slap a "for kids" label on it
- scarface_74 1y agoI am thinking about doing something similar as I learn Spanish. I know some - about at a B1 level. Right now I’m using ChatGPT to create my own lessons and having it to draw pictures depicting sentences in Spanish and putting a caption in Spanish underneath. It’s keeping me from having to go from Spanish -> English -> mental image directly to Spanish -> mental image
- jp1016 1y agoi made https://storyforu.com https://storyforu.com which generates stories for children, based on topics you select with vibrant graphics and an interactive and quiz mode. it was fun to build it.
- addy34 1y ago>Try it today in the Gemini app. Available globally on desktop and mobile Not quite. Gemini isn't available in Hong Kong. Unfortunately instead of telling Pixel users that, they updated their phones to use Gemini instead of the functional assistant, and then whenever the assistant is accessed, it just spins forever with a "just a moment" prompt. It's not even clear why it's disabled, since it works just fine if you pay them for workspace subscription.
- enrio2000 1y agocan the storybook be saved and reformatted into pdf?
- lightyrs 1y agoI made several attempts to try to get it to generate something more esoteric. Here is a story about a computer falling in love with a potato chip who becomes a sentient meth addict. https://g.co/gemini/share/598cc68832a9 https://g.co/gemini/share/598cc68832a9