Aviation Stories For Curious Kids

Reading a book made extensively with AI is a genuinely interesting feat for me. The illustrations in Aviation Stories For Curious Kids give it away from the start-diffusion image models are notoriously bad at making airplanes without an established outline. That the text parts follow the Q and A quiz model of “Here’s things in a whimsical tone, now a question” gives it away more, though I’d be curious how much was manual.

As it sticks to the famous events that LLMs can (generally) get right (even if it’s just big sample size), there isn’t much too objectionable here. The exception is Laika, which is treated as a wonderful canine adventure and not a cruel sacrifice of a dog one on what everyone knew was a one-way trip for the sake of a publicity stunt.

At least it’s interesting, which is more than I can say about a lot of books reviewed here. Even if it’s not exactly recommended.