Google rolled out a brand new software inside its Gemini AI chatbot that allows you to create an illustrated story by merely describing it. The function, 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’ll be able to 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 helps you to add images and different photos 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 via the “pages,” I discovered that the plot it generated concerning the tank’s inhabitants attempting to maneuver a marble was fairly lame. However aside from that, all the things appeared fairly normal 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 appear to be a cartoon crime scene, whereas an AI picture of a mom and son watching TV put the display on the improper facet. My colleague Andrew Liszewski even noticed an AI-generated oddity in Google’s personal video concerning the function, which reveals a lady building a spaceship and making “faucet, faucet, faucet” noises whereas holding a wrench and another software I can’t make out.
Apart from coming throughout some inconsistencies in character designs, I didn’t spot some other blatant AI weirdness in a few of the different tales I had Gemini create. Nevertheless, the chatbot didn’t appear to share my inventive imaginative and prescient after I uploaded a picture of a cartoon cat that I drew.
The Gemini Storybook function is offered globally on desktop and cell, together with in all of the languages Gemini at the moment helps.