Generative artificial intelligence and bedtime stories
If you enjoy reading bedtime stories to your children, you’ll know one of the challenges is when they fall in love with a particular setting and its characters, but you run out of books from that series to read to them.
Naturally, when the availability of stories depends solely on an author’s creative capacity, the supply tends to be limited. However, in the midst of the generative artificial intelligence boom, it was logical that someone would think to use a specific author’s setting and character development, and ask a generative algorithm to write a story based on them, with a plot suggested by the user. Given the ease of feeding or training an algorithm with a book or a set of books, this possibility seems quite reasonable and well within the range of options for parents — or grandparents — wanting to give their children — or grandchildren — more of their favorite stories…
Asking an algorithm to write a story in the style of the Brothers Grimm where the protagonist, Little Red Riding Hood, goes to the big city to buy gifts for her grandmother during the sales, for example, is perfectly possible. But in that case, considering that the story’s basis and style come from previously created work (and also based on a similar tale by Charles Perrault), we would surely have to speculate about copyright issues, although in this…
