Google rolled out a brand new instrument inside its Gemini AI chatbot that allows you to create an illustrated story by merely describing it. The function, known as “Storybook,” generates 10-page tales, every with a brief paragraph of textual content that Gemini can learn aloud, together with an accompanying illustration.
You possibly can customise your story by asking Gemini to make use of particular artwork types, akin to ones impressed by claymation, anime, comics, and extra. Google additionally permits you to add pictures and different photographs for Gemini to reference, like importing a toddler’s drawing and asking Gemini to create a narrative about it.
I simply needed to check out these options for myself, so I first requested Gemini to create a narrative a few catfish struggling to make buddies in a brand new aquarium. As I flipped by means of the “pages,” I discovered that the plot it generated concerning the tank’s inhabitants attempting to maneuver a marble was fairly lame. However apart from that, the whole lot appeared fairly commonplace for an AI-generated youngsters’s story, till I got here throughout one illustration that put a human arm on one of many fish.
One other Gemini-generated story made a web page involving spaghetti sauce seem like a cartoon crime scene, whereas an AI picture of a mom and son watching TV put the display screen on the flawed facet. My colleague Andrew Liszewski even noticed an AI-generated oddity in Google’s personal video concerning the function, which exhibits a girl constructing a spaceship and making “faucet, faucet, faucet” noises whereas holding a wrench and another instrument I can’t make out.
Apart from coming throughout some inconsistencies in character designs, I didn’t spot another blatant AI weirdness in a few of the different tales I had Gemini create. Nevertheless, the chatbot didn’t appear to share my creative imaginative and prescient once I uploaded a picture of a cartoon cat that I drew.
The Gemini Storybook function is on the market globally on desktop and cellular, together with in all of the languages Gemini presently helps.
