Technology @lemmy.world alb_004 @lemm.ee 2mo ago

Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display

www.tomshardware.com Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display

Once upon a time, there was a little Pi…

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Have you read ai stories? They are shit. The current ai doesn't understand the arc that makes a story
- That's not the point of this I think lol. It's very impressive as a tech demo, that even a device even as underpowered as a Pi can run these AI models to a passable degree.
  
  https://github.com/tvldz/storybook
  
  That's what I meant. Ai stories are not passable and I think I think if we give them to people who don't know how stories work (children) we are in for a bad time
I could see this going hilariously wrong
- Or tragically wrong.
  
  I would not want a machine with no moral compass whatsoever telling "stories" to a toddler.
  
  Hi, Susie. Have you ever heard of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Columbine? BTK?
  
  I mean, have you checked kids videos on YouTube? I remember getting dumbfounded when I watched some of the "stories". LLM would fit right in.
So I heard you like generic and predictable stories...
Very Diamond Age.
- Still waiting for my skull gun.
I'm surprised that the Pi can even run Stable Diffusion.
- More likely running on servers
  
  Article clearly stated it's running locally
Boy, are the example story and picture bad.
- Yeah, maybe.
I have what is probably a stupid and misplaced question. The second picture in the article has the phrase "with hope in his heart". That phrase repeatedly pops up in the hilariously bad ChatGPT stories I've seen people generate.

Is there a reason that cheesy phrases that don't get used in real life keep popping into stories like that?
- Those phrases are not common anymore but once was very common, among the corpus the llm is trained on (mid 20th century books)
  
  I want to preface this by saying I'm not doubting you, I just don't know how it works.
  
  Ok, but wouldn't the training be weighted against older phrases that are no longer used? Or is all training data given equal weight?
  
  Additionally, if the goal is to create bedtime stories or similar, couldn't the person generating it ask for a more contemporary style? Would that affect the use of that phrase and similar cheesy lines that keep appearing?
  
  I would never use an LLM for creative or factual work, but I use them all the time for code scaffolding, summarization, and rubber ducking. I'm super interested and just don't understand why they do the things they do.

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