Locations, patterns for AI-assisted human creativity & future blog posts

You can skip ahead to the interesting part by signing up at ki-storygen.com (free), navigating to the Locations page, and trying out the "Create New Location" -> Create With AI option.

Write a sentence or three, click submit, and then you be the judge of how evocative and interesting the output image and description is.

For the location feature, I'm still impressed with 1) how responsive the LLM is to the tone and details of the prompt, 2) how unexpected but relevant some of the details are. I find I am surprised by the depth of detail generated when a prompt includes specific details and goes beyond cliche. The image for The Tide's Rest was a bit of a miss because there's no way to walk up to the house, but otherwise I liked the haunting vibe of details that were generated to describe this retired detective's retreat. Contrast it with the output of the placeholder prompt, The Sun-Kissed Archives of Eldoria, which has more of a treasure hunting archaeologist adventure feel, and I think theres both a good range of possible outputs and a really useful "Here's a sketch of an idea to use as input to human creativity".

I've figured out a few tricks for consistency of characters across images and video generation (though the cost of video generation makes it prohibitive except for truly price-insensitive users, which is a poor fit for entertainment), and I'll plan to write up some future blog posts on these, as well as a more technical one on Stripe Payment Intents, which I think would benefit from a more prospective "Use this mental model when integrating with Payment Intents" -- think more of a cart management and checkout experience than a single product experience.

For now, please try out the Location feature of Ki Storygen and let me know your thoughts in comments or an email!