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Show HN: Grim Tales – a book written and illustrated by AI

1 pointsby db39about 4 years ago

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db39about 4 years ago
A few weeks ago I was playing around with some generative art and created an image of the Grim Reaper on vacation. I found it amusing and I couldn&#x27;t stop thinking about other scenarios for Death to be in. So I decided I wanted to write a book using AI. Of course that had already &#x27;been done&#x27;. So I wondered if I could create one that was cohesive, with an actual plot, and could I illustrate it using AI too?<p>Grim Tales is the result. It&#x27;s a short story about the Grim Reaper in paperback and as an ebook. It was exciting to see the text and the art getting generated and coming together. As far as I know it is the first book both written and illustrated by AI.<p>The art was created using a modified version of the &#x27;Aleph2Image&#x27; notebook (created by @advadnoun on twitter) which uses OpenAI&#x27;s CLIP and DALL-E. The text was generated using a writing tool that utilises OpenAI&#x27;s GPT-3 API. I&#x27;ve already written an article on the site about how I generated the text for the book. I&#x27;ll follow that up with a similar article about the art, and discussions on the quality of the writing and how AI could be used as a tool for writers in the future.<p>Happy to answer questions!