Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations. Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit , which creates AI-generated children's stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents, "You don't need to write a single word.
Key Takeaways
- StoryKit was first spotted in the App Store by 9to5Mac .
Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is piloting StoryKit in select countries to see how parents like it.
- Meta regularly ships boneheaded ideas like Instagram deepfake generators and " pervert glasses .
" Comparatively, is it so bad to doom children to soulless bedtime stories?
- We have always drawn from mythology, fables, and other stories - the blockbuster movie of the summer is literally an ancient myth that originated from this same tradition of oral storytelling.
Parents lead exhausting, busy lives, but it has always been possible to survive bedtime without using an inherently uncreative technology that calculates the most predictable response to a prompt.
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Stats & Key Facts
- #A Meta spokesperson described StoryKit as a creative storytelling app used to craft personalized, imaginative storybooks for children and noted that it uses AI safety filters with no social features and is only available to users over the age of 18.
" At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations. StoryKit was first spotted in the App Store by 9to5Mac . Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is piloting StoryKit in select countries to see how parents like it.
A Meta spokesperson described StoryKit as a creative storytelling app used to craft personalized, imaginative storybooks for children and noted that it uses AI safety filters with no social features and is only available to users over the age of 18. To generate a story in the app, you first select a character, which you can create by "[snapping] a photo of their favorite toy or person to bring them to life," according to the description in the App Store. Then you describe the world of your story and choose a lesson, so that you can "weave in values like kindness, courage, or empathy without it feeling like a lecture.
" The good news about StoryKit is that it could be a lot worse. Meta regularly ships boneheaded ideas like Instagram deepfake generators and " pervert glasses . " Comparatively, is it so bad to doom children to soulless bedtime stories?
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