Gemini invente les contes du soir

Gemini invents evening tales

When AI becomes a storyteller

With Gemini Storybook, Google offers a new reading of the bedtime ritual: it’s not just a tool, it’s a creative companion. It gives us the opportunity to invent a new, unique, touching story each evening – while keeping control and intimacy of this fragile and precious moment.
The scene would have something touching: the light softens, your child is wrapped in his cover, ready to hear a story. Drop your dusty classics: now, Gemini, the smart robot signed Google, takes over and slips a tailor -made story, illustrated, told, as a magic book came out …

A book illustrated in ten pages, created in a breath
The big novelty, called “Storybook”, consists of an option from the Gemini application which generates an illustrated book of ten pages, full with text, personalized illustrations and audio narration. A real digital tour de force: innovation available both on the web and on mobile apps, and usable by all, including in free version.

Almost infinite customization
The operation is simple and clever. Just launch a prompt in the style “Create a Storybook …” Indicate the theme, the age of the reader, or even add your own images (a child’s drawing, for example).
Gemini takes care of the rest: each page takes shape, with a text on the right and an illustration on the left. You can choose the artistic style: Pixel Art, cartoon, “Coloring” atmosphere, even Clayation. Bonus: all this is available in more than 45 languages, enough to charm multilingual families or curious parents

Imperfections … not necessarily embarrassing
Of course, an AI is not perfect. Some tests have given surprising results: a fish with human arms, or even a spaghetti sauce like a poorly calibrated cartoon. Small oddities, in short, which sometimes lend to smile or relaunch demand with an adjusted prompt.

Beyond the simple tale
Google does not hide its ambitions: Storybook is presented not only as a creative boost for parents, but also as a playful way of teaching, documenting family events (do you remember the mountain trip?), Or even explain a concept, such as the water cycle, in an accessible way to children.

A range of applications in the Google ecosystem
In parallel with this function, projects developed with the GEMINI API are emerging, signed by enthusiastic creators or participants in internal competitions. There are for example apps like Storybooks, Luna, Kahani Ai, or Kids Stories Ai, which exploit text, image and voice, sometimes coupled to Flutter, Firebase, or Imagen to generate interactive and multilingual stories.

Supervise children’s access
But in the shadow of these prowess points to the inevitable concern for personal data. Google claims that children under the age of 13 can access Gemini via Family Link, under parental supervision, and that their data will not be used to cause AI.
Complementary governance exist, such as self-support of activities after 18 months, or the possibility of stopping collection-visible in the Hub of confidentiality of the Gemini apps.
Nevertheless, associations and defenders of privacy are concerned: in the United States, some point to a possible bypass of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) because of a default model which requires parental unsubscription, more than active consent.
So what makes this tale at the digital time so attractive? It is this subtle balance between ancient magic and new potentials, combining creative speed, fine personalization, educational value and parental control, while opening ways where imagination continues, rather than replaces.
There remain the challenges of vigilance: to protect the data, to preserve the critical sense of children, and to ensure that this new form of narration remains a link between generations, not a loneliness screen. We will try this storyteller 2.0 at this address. Several options are offered in advance, it remains to decide, including for the creation of an entire book.

Well, but what do we think?
This novelty signed Google promises mountains and wonders: ten pages of an illustrated tale, generated in no time. But, surprised, this digital miracle often sounds hollow. The characters remain surprisingly transparent, the style retains lukewarm formulas, and the images … let’s say that a hero can simply disappear from one thumbnail to another. It is not an irresponsible act, but a mechanical functioning, soulless.
Behind this technological feat is played out the essential question: the ritual of bedtime, this human and warm parenthesis, is in the process of giving way to an automated mini-spectacle? Some observers, such as Joe Foley, see the beginning of a narrative individualism where each child becomes the star of his own fable – at the risk of sacrificing the universality of tales, these shared stories which gradually build a collective imagination.

Owl ? Yes, but …
On the one hand, this fascinating tool offers instant, personalized creativity, and promises a playful renewal for evening stories. On the other hand, he raises doubts about the redefinition of an intimate ritual and reinforced vigilance around the data of our children. A fragile balance to be observed closely.
What we read and discover it suggests that Gemini can play the role of precious help in inventing stories at the foot … when you are flat. But replacing the human ritual with an “IA friendly” version does not convince much more than that. As for the drawings, well, the tastes, the colors, Toussa…
The personalized tales are nice, of course, but what becomes of surprise, exchanges and this precious little imperfection that a living voice brings? And all that, with a technological aftertaste where gentle surveillance is essential-it’s very pretty, but we are not really reassured.
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