Curating Children's Literature

[haughty spruce]

https://medium.com/@brandon.tidd/i-curated-and-published-an-illustrated-childrens-book-in-6-hours-using-chatgpt-e589dd8a2247

[karmic pasture]

@haughty spruce Hey, I'm new here and I'm a public librarian, so I help curate collections of children's literature. There's still so much that could be improved in a book like this, but thank you for the effort! We recently acquired donations of generative children's books at work, but unfortunately we determined that they lacked the quality needed to be in our collection... as is true for most generative children's literature on Amazon at this time. Personally, I think that AI augmentation rather than completely relying on what is generated alone can help elevate a children's book. Many of the picture books I handle often have a personal element to them (ex. Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Mailliard) that's hard to replicate at this time.

[haughty spruce]

100% Agree with this! The goal of the project was to serve more as a proof of concept and a window into the world of self-publishing. If I was actually trying I'm sure I could improve upon it greatly, but for a 6 hour experiment I have to say it did impress both me and my two kids (age 7 and 3). As we like to say, this is the worst it will ever be. ☺️

[karmic pasture]

Hey! The kids like it and that's a win! And yeah, the fact that this will only get better is what's prompting me to do more research and join official Discords (OpenAI and Anthropic), the masters degree required for my role is usually in the same department as IT students.

[haughty spruce]

You might enjoy the free community I'm involved with: The AI Salon (thesalon.ai) - there's even an Education Guild. Glad to hear you're leaning into it!

[karmic pasture]

I just made a post in #dev-chat about my plans to incorporate it!

@haughty spruce not that channel #ai-discussions