The issue with Bluey is there’s not sufficient of it. Even with 151 seven-minute-long episodes of the favored youngsters’s animated present on the market, mother and father of toddlers nonetheless desperately await Australia’s Ludo Studio to launch one other season. The one solution to get extra Bluey extra rapidly is that if they create their very own tales starring the Brisbane-based household of blue heeler canine.
Luke Warner did this—with generative AI. The London-based developer and father used OpenAI’s newest software, customizable bots called GPTs, to create a narrative generator for his younger daughter. The bot, which he calls Bluey-GPT, begins every session by asking folks their title, age, and a bit about their day, then churns out personalised tales starring Bluey and her sister Bingo. “It names her faculty, the realm she lives in, and talks concerning the truth it is chilly outdoors,” Warner says. “It makes it extra actual and fascinating.”
The principle model of ChatGPT has, since its launch final yr, been in a position to write a youngsters’s story, however GPTs enable mother and father—or anybody, actually—to constrain the subject and begin with particular prompts, equivalent to a toddler’s title. This implies anybody can generate personalised tales starring their child and their favourite character—which means nobody wants to attend for Ludo to drop contemporary content material.
That stated, the tales churned out by AI aren’t wherever nearly as good because the present itself, and lift authorized and moral issues. In the meanwhile, OpenAI’s GPTs are solely out there to these with a Plus or Enterprise account. The corporate has prompt they could be rolled out to different customers, however as custom agents are believed to be one of many issues that led to the corporate’s recent board-level drama, and on condition that researchers have flagged privacy concerns with GPTs, that launch may very well be a methods out. (OpenAI has but to answer to requests for remark for this story.)
When Warner constructed his GPT at the start of November, he’d made it with the intention of placing it up on the GPT Retailer that OpenAI had within the works. That by no means got here to cross. Simply 5 days after he marketed Bluey-GPT on Instagram, he bought a takedown discover from OpenAI, which disabled public sharing of the GPT. Warner knew utilizing Bluey as the premise for his GPT could be fraught, so he wasn’t stunned. Trademarked names and pictures are virtually all the time a no-go, however the legal guidelines round tales “written” by AI are murky—and Warner’s Bluey bedtime tales are only the start.
Unpacking which legal guidelines apply is not easy: Warner relies within the UK, OpenAI is within the US, and Ludo is in Australia. Fictional characters could be protected by copyright within the UK and the US, but it surely’s extra difficult in Australia, the place merely naming a personality will not be an infringement with out together with additional parts from the work.