“We have put in place multiple guardrails to ensure the experience is safe,” Eshan Bhatnagar, head of product for Alexa AI, told Lifewire in an email interview. “From the get-go, we made sure to use carefully curated data sources that do not contain offensive or inappropriate content to train models. Second, we limit input prompts for story creation to pre-curated selections, ensuring we don’t prompt models with inappropriate inputs. Third, we integrate content filtering solutions to automatically identify and remove inappropriate content.”
AI Art
A scene-generation model illustrates the story by selecting a background image created by AI or human artists. It also adds relevant objects from the narrative, such as a pirate, in appropriate locations, orients gestures like waving hands, and sets facial expressions. Alexa’s AI sound and music generator produces relevant sounds and background music. The software draws from a library of instrumental parts, including artist-created chord progressions, harmonies, and rhythms. An AI musical-arrangement system is intended to ensure that all the pieces fit together.
Keeping It Safe
“We sought feedback from parents and their kids on a variety of topics when developing this product,” he added. “Their inputs played an important role in shaping the experience.” AI generative art can help kids develop their creativity and imagination, Amey Dharwadker, a machine learning engineer at Facebook, told Lifewire via email. He said children could also learn about new styles and techniques through AI-generated art by seeing how artists from different cultures and eras might have approached a particular subject or style. “This can give them new ideas for their own artwork and help them develop their own personal style,” he added. But Dharwadker said that working with AI generative art could result in kids needing to learn to be creative. “With AI doing all the artistic work, children may not feel the need to practice their own drawing and painting skills,” he added. “They might also not try to come up with new ideas since they could simply ask the AI programs what to do. Another disadvantage of kids using AI generative art is that they might not develop the skills to collaborate with others.”
