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, referred to as “Storybook,” generates 10-page tales, every with a brief paragraph of textual content that Gemini can learn aloud and an illustration.
You possibly can customise your story by asking Gemini to make use of particular artwork types, comparable to ones impressed by claymation, anime, comics, and extra. Google additionally permits you to add photographs and different photos for Gemini to reference, like importing a baby’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 associates 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 making an attempt to maneuver a marble was fairly lame. However apart from that, all the things appeared fairly normal for an AI-generated youngsters’s story — that’s, till I got here throughout one illustration that put a human arm on one of many fish.
One other Gemini-generated story had a web page involving spaghetti sauce that appeared like a cartoon crime scene, whereas an AI picture of a mom and son watching TV had 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.
In addition to coming throughout some inconsistencies in character designs, I didn’t spot another blatant AI weirdness in a number of the different tales that I had Gemini create. Nevertheless, the chatbot didn’t appear to share my creative imaginative and prescient after I uploaded a picture of a cartoon cat that I drew.
The Gemini Storybook function is accessible globally on desktop and cell, together with in all of the languages that Gemini at the moment helps.
