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 characteristic, called “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, comparable to ones impressed by claymation, anime, comics, and extra. Google additionally helps you to add photographs 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 couple of catfish struggling to make pals in a brand new aquarium. As I flipped by means of the “pages,” I discovered that the plot it generated in regards to the tank’s inhabitants attempting to maneuver a marble was fairly lame. However apart from that, every thing appeared fairly normal for an AI-generated kids’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 appear like a cartoon crime scene, whereas an AI picture of a mom and son watching TV put the display on the incorrect aspect. My colleague Andrew Liszewski even noticed an AI-generated oddity in Google’s personal video in regards to the characteristic, which reveals a lady building 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 every other 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 after I uploaded a picture of a cartoon cat that I drew.
The Gemini Storybook characteristic is offered globally on desktop and cell, together with in all of the languages Gemini at present helps.