Alice and Sparkle

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His detractors called the book “cheap” with little to no artistic values or integrity, especially with how the machine learning process means that Alice and Sparkle’s entire art style and the story is generated from a compilation of other works. There are serious, incredibly valid concerns from artists and writers about all this technology. Their emotional responses are fair, we should listen and instead should ask: To the creators of these tools at OpenAI & MidJourney: how do we ensure protections for artists / train models on consent? Their talent, skill, hard work to get there needs to be respected."

Overall, he’s seen the experience as a learning one — and a chastening one. “I am grateful that it’s publicized a very critical debate and discussion that’s to be had,” he said. “I’m honestly just saddened by how that debate has played out. The hateful rhetoric and the abuse is really not fun to read." So shouldn’t ChatGTP and Midjourney have had their names on the cover? Perhaps, and perhaps not. Perhaps one should look at this like a ghost written work. Ghost writers get paid for the work, but don’t get credit. Still that doesn’t cover it either? Reshi told the world ChatGTP and Midjourney wrote and illustrated this book. Not much “ghost” about that, and they didn’t even get paid. This is a story about a young girl named Alice who discovers the magic of artificial intelligence. She creates her own AI, named Sparkle, and together they go on adventures and use their combined knowledge to make the world a better place.

Ammaar Reshi, 28, has been fascinated by technology since he was a child. “I was always curious, and my dad let me play with his computer when I was 5 years old,” he said. He grew up in Pakistan before his family moved to the UK, where Reshi studied computer science in London. A job at Palantir Technologies led Reshi to Palo Alto, California, and since 2020 he’s worked at fintech company Brex, where he’s now a design manager. The story explores the incredible abilities of AI and the importance of using them for good. It is a tale of friendship and exploration, filled with magic and wonder.” This is a story about a young girl named Alice who discovers the magic of artificial intelligence. She creates her own AI, named Sparkle, and together they go on adventures and use their combined knowledge to make the world a better place. The story explores the incredible abilities of AI and the importance of using them for good. It is a tale of friendship and exploration, filled with magic and wonder.

Art Shift: The artstyle ranges from the chibi-inspired style on the cover to a more realistic look .The debate has heated up even further with the announcement of Alice and Sparkle, created by design manager Ammaar Reshi. He completed the entire children’s book within a weekend using ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools. Reshi, a product design manager from the San Francisco Bay Area, gathered illustrations from Midjourney, a text-to-image AI tool that launched this summer, and took story elements from a conversation he had with the AI-powered ChatGPT about a young girl named Alice. “Anyone can use these tools,” Reshi tells TIME. “It’s easily and readily accessible, and it’s not hard to use either.” One critic is Anupa Roper, a children’s book author based in the UK, who said she had a “sinking feeling in the pit of [her] stomach,” when she saw Reshi’s tweet. “I’m thinking, Is it really that easy to create something that I had to pour my heart and soul into?" Roper said.

That issue has taken the art and entertainment world by storm this month, with the sudden speed, ease, and efficiency of creating works with AI sending artists into an existential crisis. Best summed up by Guillermo del Toro — on the press circuit for his soulful stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio — he said he’s “not interested in art made by machines and the extrapolation of information.”

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When a raft of generative AI tools started to hit the market over the last few months, Reshi began tinkering with them. Earlier this month, he had the idea to make a book for his best friends’ kid, who was born this year, using AI. “I said I was going to take a weekend to try to put this out there,” he recalled. Alice and Sparkle is a children's picture book about a young girl named Alice who creates an artificially intelligent robot named Sparkle. The two go on an adventure where they learn about both the potential benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence. Since December 4th, it has sold about 70 copies. Reshi will donate the rest of the copies to his local library. The children's book covered in The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Le Figaro, NBC News, and media worldwide. Reshi is aware of the controversy that his book caused and discussed the risks of AI-generated content: