> We wanted to let kids combine the power of their ideas with AI tools

Why? Kids can combine the power of their ideas with crayons, markers, and pencils.

This is the best answer.

Although cool, I can see how this product will just inhibit instead of enabling creativity and play in kids. Instead of having to draw something to see it, refining the drawing over minutes or hours, the kid will just lazily ask for some half formed idea, and see it materialize from thin air. That's just sad

	▲	_rpxpx 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Agree with all of that apart from "although cool". Why is it 'cool'? It's 'cool' only in the way Elon Musk and his retracting door handles are 'cool'.

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add-sub-mul-div 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah. It's bad enough if kids prompting this stuff online is the new form that creativity is going to take. But this way, it's generating electronic crap that will end up in landfills as well.

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tuckerman 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think with the right parental guidance/supervision this could be a very fun toy.

From the website it seems like a great way to generate some black and white outlines that kids can still color in. If used like that it seems almost strictly more creative than a coloring book, no? There are plenty of other ways kids can express creativity with pre-made art too. Maybe they use them to illustrate a story they dreamed up? Maybe they decorate something they built with them?

Also, some children might want to have fun be creative in ways that don't involve visual arts. I was never particularly interested in coloring or drawing and still believe myself to be a pretty creative individual. I don't think my parents buying me some stickers robbed me of any critical experience.

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charcircuit 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

More options is better. I think it's possible for a niche to exist for AI creative tools like this.

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tinfoilhatter 3 days ago | parent [-]

I'm struggling to find the creative part in having an AI print stickers for a child. Seems like the entire creative part is skipped over.

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charcircuit 2 days ago | parent [-]

The amount of permutations of words you can say along with the permutations of drawings you can add to the sticker is a gigantic number. That is a big enough state space for people to express creativity.

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venturecruelty 2 days ago | parent [-]

The entire point of being creative is that you actually MAKE it yourself, not that you tell the slop machine to make it for you. This is, quite frankly, the complete and total opposite of creativity. This is pure consumption disguised as creativity, wrapped up in a nice $99 box that will probably be e-waste in a couple years when the company goes under.

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charcircuit 2 days ago | parent [-]

Is writing a book not creative if you use an existing font? There are both creative aspects like choosing words or choosing a font and non creative aspects like rendering the font.

	▲	vrighter a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		it is not creative if all you did was choose a font.
	▲	venturecruelty a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You and I both know this is a disingenuous argument. You're not saying "Hey, Stickerbox. Choose a nice font for me." You're saying: "Hey, Stickerbox, write the entire book for me." Try again, please.

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SiempreViernes 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Some kids might not have arms though? So this helps with that bit, but I'm not sure what they would do with the stickers.