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by carbocation 1265 days ago
This is better than the plot of Lost.
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this is great, I'm narrating my kid stories of a cat off a set of kid books but now I can inject the settings and a scope for a story, add "as a kid story" and the output comes out well formed and ready for evening sleep stories.

I can have a different story, every day, for as long as she will care to listen.

I've heard of a few other people doing this sort of thing. I have some reservations about the practice. Stories passed from parents to children are our birthright. Forget art, this is a fundamental form of communication of values, ideas, and meaning-all of which are absent or only present by accident in GPT's output. What are you teaching your kid about her value by offloading this task to a machine? How will you answer questions about what the stories mean? Will the fact that they don't mean anything discourage her from asking questions about the things she hears?
she's 2 she need a voice to cradle to, not a bedtime philosopher. there will be a time for aesophus and friends, but even then, oftentimes a story can be just silly and fun, it gets old real quick if every story comes with a canned morality statement.
Any utility bill is better than the plot of Lost.

And no, I'm not making a statement about utility bills. ;)