Google Gemini Now Crafts AI-Powered Bedtime Stories
▼ Summary
– Google introduced a new “Storybook” feature in its Gemini AI chatbot that generates 10-page illustrated stories based on user descriptions.
– Users can customize stories by specifying art styles (e.g., claymation, anime) or uploading images like a child’s drawing for inspiration.
– Testing revealed inconsistencies in AI-generated illustrations, such as a fish with a human arm or misplaced objects in scenes.
– Despite occasional oddities, most AI-generated stories appeared standard for children’s content, though artistic vision sometimes diverged from user input.
– The Gemini Storybook tool is available globally on desktop and mobile in all supported languages.
Google’s Gemini AI now lets users generate personalized bedtime stories complete with illustrations, offering a creative way to craft tales for children or simply entertain curious minds. The new “Storybook” feature produces 10-page narratives with short paragraphs of text that the chatbot can read aloud, paired with AI-generated artwork. Users can tailor their stories by requesting specific visual styles, from anime to claymation, or even upload reference images, like a child’s drawing, to inspire the plot.
Testing the tool reveals both its potential and its quirks. One experiment involved requesting a story about a lonely catfish in a new aquarium. While the resulting tale about fish attempting to move a marble felt uninspired, the real surprise came when an illustration inexplicably gave one fish a human arm. Other attempts yielded similarly odd moments: spaghetti sauce resembling a crime scene, a TV screen misplaced in a living room scene, and a demo video showing unclear tool usage during a spaceship-building sequence.
Despite these occasional glitches, most generated stories maintain coherence, with only minor inconsistencies in character designs. The tool struggles, however, to perfectly interpret user-uploaded artwork. For instance, when provided with a hand-drawn cartoon cat, Gemini’s reinterpretation strayed noticeably from the original.
Available worldwide on both desktop and mobile devices, Gemini’s Storybook supports multiple languages, making it accessible to a broad audience. While the feature excels at quick, whimsical storytelling, its AI-generated visuals occasionally veer into surreal territory, a reminder that even advanced tools still have room to refine their creative output.
(Source: The Verge)
