{"id":207910,"date":"2022-12-16T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=207910"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:15:35","slug":"childrens-book-created-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/childrens-book-created-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Book Created with AI and Sold on Amazon Shocks Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meet Ammaar Reshi. He was having fun <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/is-ai-really-stealing-artwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chatting with a new AI bot<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt-chat-with-ai.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a> when an idea struck him. Within the span of a weekend, he used <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/art-community-up-in-arms-ai-artstation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI like this bot<\/a> and Midjourney for the images to create and <strong>publish a children\u2019s book<\/strong>. It sparked a massive uproar when he shared this news on social media platforms like Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publishing a book<\/strong> within a weekend is no mean feat. It takes planning, preparation, and time to design the artwork. Not for Reshi and his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/privacy-fears-about-ai-trend-for-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI tools<\/a>. Thanks to machine learning, the 12-page story was completed in no time, including illustrations and a book cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools\u2026 and by combining all of them, published a children\u2019s book co-written and illustrated by AI!<br><br>Here\u2019s how! ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0UjG2dxH7Q\">pic.twitter.com\/0UjG2dxH7Q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ammaar Reshi (@ammaar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ammaar\/status\/1601284293363261441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, this is impressive. It means that anyone that\u2019s wanted to publish a book but doesn\u2019t know <strong>how to write can now do so<\/strong>. Also, for actual authors like me who can\u2019t pay for cover designers and sucks at illustrations, it means I <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/celebrities-look-like-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have a new solution<\/a>. It also means I can get illustrations for the creatures in my horror novel, something I\u2019ve appointed three different human artists for in the last two years and still failing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Children's Book Created with AI\" class=\"wp-image-207913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-664x374.jpg 664w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-238x134.jpg 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-436x246.jpg 436w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-304x170.jpg 304w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Childrens-Book-Created-with-AI.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we have those <strong>completely opposed<\/strong>, which also includes me. I\u2019m talking about artists and writers. Firstly, artists are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/adobe-sells-ai-generated-artwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upset that AI has learnt<\/a> from their styles and art to make these illustrations. In some way, that\u2019s still plagiarism without compensation. While it\u2019s not a thing yet, I\u2019m sure AI will also learn from writers like me and may even start stealing from our stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a children\u2019s author\/illustrator, it is saddening to see these books bc, apart from the ethics of AI and stolen artwork, kids deserve better!!!<br><br>I\u2019m tired of people who see kidlit as an easy get-rich-quick scheme and putting in the absolute minimal effort into their books <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I5WnlTiZgS\">https:\/\/t.co\/I5WnlTiZgS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; anoosha syed (@foxville_art) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxville_art\/status\/1602135206974345216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While this is the <strong>most voiced concern<\/strong>, I believe there\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/chatgpt-has-fantastic-capability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">underlying fear<\/a>. The more we teach AI how to illustrate and write like us, the less the world will need us for art and books. Game developers can save so much money and increase profits by simply <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/new-trend-in-a-i-creating-avatars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">getting AI to write<\/a> the quests and create the entire world in the game. We\u2019re helping machines take work away from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strangely, Reshi feels our pain. \u201cI think there\u2019s a real concern, and I actually do hear out those artists. It\u2019s really important that the tech industry that\u2019s working on these tools involves them in the process of creation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consideration is appreciated, yet, the <strong>book is still for sale<\/strong>. For my future novels, I&#8217;ll put a disclaimer &#8220;This book was created by a human, and not AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Ammaar Reshi. He was having fun chatting with a new AI bot called ChatGPT when an idea struck him. Within the span of a weekend, he used AI like this bot and Midjourney for the images to create and publish a children\u2019s book. It sparked a massive uproar when he shared this news on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/childrens-book-created-with-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Children&#8217;s Book Created with AI and Sold on Amazon Shocks Artists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":207914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-207910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322748,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207910\/revisions\/322748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207910"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=207910"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=207910"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=207910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}