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Me again. You can probably guess what it felt like to pivot from working on the second draft of my own children’s book to reading this message that proudly proclaims there’s zero need for writing or illustrating skills in the children’s book market. Ugh. As if this journey to traditional publication doesn’t already offer just slightly better odds than winning the lottery and as if those of us who write for children aren’t already subjected to the attitude that we obviously don’t write well because otherwise we’d be writing for adults, I then discover I’ve been going at this writing endeavor all wrong!
Silly me! Instead of doing research, creating a rough outline, lying awake thinking about plot and characters, writing an entire first draft, soliciting feedback from my critique group, taking a whole bunch of notes, reworking my outline and tweaking the characters, and then beginning the second draft, I could’ve just plugged my story idea into an app!
Except, right after reading that spam I remembered seeing something a while back about A.I.-generated children’s books. Let’s see what Sondra Eklund, librarian, has to say on the topic: Beware AI-produced Children’s Books! I recommend reading her entire post, but here’s a sampling of what she wrote after ordering a children’s “factual” book about rabbits for her library system:
The book starts out extremely repetitive and very poorly worded. There’s no logical progression between sentences, and some sentences repeat on later pages, except often with contradictory information or in a slightly different form. It’s got stock photo images and clip art text pages.
Here are quotes Sondra provides from the final spread in Rabbits: Children’s Animal Fact Book:
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of feeding a rabbit, you’ve probably wondered how they reproduce. The answer is simple: they live in the wild! Despite being cute and cutesy, rabbits are also very smart.
They can even make their own clothes, and they can even walk around. And they’re not only adorable, but they’re also very useful to us as pets and can help you out with gardening.
Apparently, not only do you NOT need any skills to write for children, you also do not need to be factual or even reality-based. If A.I. (which does include the word “Intelligence,” after all) says that rabbits make their own clothes and will refrain from eating all the lettuce in your garden, who am I to argue?
Image by freeillustrated from Pixabay
And then to add insult to injury, this article came out today, quoting the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment:
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) CEO Tony Vinciquerra does not mince words when it comes to artificial intelligence. He likes the tech — or at the very least, he likes the economics.
“We are very focused on AI. The biggest problem with making films today is the expense,” Vinciquerra said at Sony’s Thursday (Friday in Japan) investor event. “We will be looking at ways to…produce both films for theaters and television in a more efficient way, using AI primarily.”
Yippee skippee! Let’s cut all humans out of the creative process! I mean, what could possibly go wrong there? But please don’t think widespread use of A.I. will only impact art, literature, and jobs. There’s also a grave environmental impact: AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water
This state-of-the-art web app allows you to create captivating children’s books using advanced AI technology. It takes care of both the writing and illustration, and all you need to do is input your ideas (or let the app come up with the idea too, LOL). No writing or illustration skills needed!
Tracy Abell 