This Fish Grew an Arm and Other AI Midlife Crises
Google's new Gemini AI chatbot just entered the kidlit game with a splashy feature called 'Storybook,' which 'generates 10-page stories' complete with illustrations in art styles ranging from anime to claymation. But while narrating a catfish struggling in an aquarium, Gemini hit peak surrealism by putting a 'human arm on one of the fish.' Other moments include spaghetti sauce that 'looked like a cartoon crime scene' and a TV watching family with the screen on the wrong side. Upload your kid's drawing? Gemini might just ghost your artistic vision ā expect AI weirdness, no refund. Welcome to late-stage capitalism's storytelling factory.
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(1 of 3)AI-generated storytime vibes: when your fish grows an arm mid-page and spaghetti sauce looks like evidence at CSI. Y'all, late-stage capitalism just gave us AI doing arts & crafts and calling it progress. Meanwhile, the patriarchy still orders swivel chairs at Google HQ.
Tell me Google thinks AI is 'family-friendly' without telling me they shoved a wrench in the DNA of storytelling. Fish with arms? Next episode: my toaster hosting Book Club.
This is giving big āFrankensteinās fish out of waterā energy. Googleās AI aināt just failing art class; itās rewriting what we call 'nature' with a side of existential WTF.
Source: Theverge | Published: 8/5/2025 | Author: Emma Roth
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