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by slidehero 457 days ago
>but already on first glance there was a wrong image

Yeah the images are going to be mostly match, but there is a "swap" button to choose more suitable images where the ai has picked poorly.

>and some pretty ugly use of language

Was this in your native language? I'm not sure how well ChaGPT does outside of English.

>But as a starting point, I can imagine this is a huge time saver for a teacher if they want to discuss a topic spontaneously, and only have 20 minutes to prepare.

Yes absolutely! This is the goal of SlideHero.

>Even before the rise of AI I see lots of low effort lesson materials being used

At the end of the day, it is still up to the teacher to create worthwhile resources, this was true before AI and is still true today :)

Thank you for your feedback.
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tda 457 days ago
Indeed swapping the images was easy and intuitive, I should have added that. The "ugly language" was a bit unexpected, as in general the support for Dutch is surprisingly good. Maybe the combination of the prompt and the translation, and the mixed used of languages. Perhaps if all the prompts were translated to a language of choice (an the user would be prompted for a language) it would work better. But maybe you never even considered making a multi-lingual tool, and just out of the box it more or less already supports that. This would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, truly amazing!

How do you combine a (full time?) teaching job with building such a tool? It feels way more than some hobby project. Congrats on the release!

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slidehero 457 days ago
>Perhaps if all the prompts were translated to a language of choice

Yes you're probably right.

>But maybe you never even considered making a multi-lingual tool

I think there is a way to produce output that is in the desired language, but I honestly haven't looked too deeply into it. For now I am going to stay focused on English though.

>How do you combine a (full time?) teaching job with building such a tool? It feels way more than some hobby project

With many late nights and coffee, lots of coffee :)

>Congrats on the release!

Thank you I appreciate the kind words.

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