Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories

Google rolled retired a caller instrumentality wrong its Gemini AI chatbot that lets you make an illustrated communicative by simply describing it. The feature, called “Storybook,” generates 10-page stories, each with a abbreviated paragraph of substance that Gemini tin work aloud, on with an accompanying illustration.

You tin customize your communicative by asking Gemini to usage circumstantial creation styles, specified arsenic ones inspired by claymation, anime, comics, and more. Google besides lets you upload photos and different images for Gemini to reference, similar uploading a child’s drafting and asking Gemini to make a communicative astir it.

I conscionable had to effort retired these features for myself, truthful I archetypal asked Gemini to make a communicative astir a catfish struggling to marque friends successful a caller aquarium. As I flipped done the “pages,” I recovered that the crippled it generated astir the tank’s inhabitants trying to determination a marble was beauteous lame. But different than that, everything seemed beauteous modular for an AI-generated children’s story, until I came crossed 1 illustration that enactment a human arm connected 1 of the fish. 

Another Gemini-generated communicative made a leafage involving spaghetti condiment look similar a cartoon transgression scene, portion an AI representation of a parent and lad watching TV enactment the surface connected the incorrect side. My workfellow Andrew Liszewski adjacent spotted an AI-generated oddity successful Google’s ain video astir the feature, which shows a pistillate building a spaceship and making “tap, tap, tap” noises portion holding a wrench and immoderate different instrumentality I can’t marque out.

Besides coming crossed immoderate inconsistencies successful quality designs, I didn’t spot immoderate different blatant AI weirdness successful immoderate of the different stories I had Gemini create. However, the chatbot didn’t look to stock my creator imaginativeness erstwhile I uploaded an representation of a cartoon feline that I drew.

The Gemini Storybook diagnostic is disposable globally connected desktop and mobile, including successful each the languages Gemini presently supports.