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Man takes AI’s help in writing children’s book, result leaves people in splits
Ammaar Reshi took to Twitter to share a photo of himself with a children's book he had co-written and illustrated with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
A man has left netizens in splits after he posted a picture of himself with a children's book he had co-written and illustrated with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the weekend. "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!" wrote Twitter user Ammaar Reshi while sharing a picture of himself with his book.
While replying to his own tweet, Reshi even shared how he created his book titled "Alice and Sparkle" over the weekend. "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," he shared.
Reshi also shared that he took story ideas to MidJourney, an AI-assisted platform for artwork creation, and got a consistent style for his book in a few hours. "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!" he added.
He further shared that he combined every single element, put them together in a 'book format', and published it using Amazon Kindle Publishing - an ebook self-publishing platform by Amazon. "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," he continued.
The primary tweet, since being shared two days ago, has amassed more than 4,400 likes and over 2,000 retweets. The share has also gathered several comments.
"I've tried this several times but just can't get close enough consistency in the images," posted an individual. "Very inspiring. The power of action. Going from 'one day I will write a book' to 'I'll do it today'," shared another. "You should use AI to aid you on, not rely on it do your work for you bro," wrote a third.8 "Pretty impressive!" expressed a fourth. "Great work. How did you *manage to get consistent pictures of the same character? My guess is first create a character with txt2img, then generate consistent images more by img2img?" enquired a fifth.
