Why We Won’t — Ever - Be Using Dall.E

Nida Sheriff

OK I have some thoughts about Dall.E 🙄.

(Dall.E is a newish OpenAI technology that creates digital images from word descriptions, or “prompts”. For example you input “ferret riding on a dog’s back in the style of Picasso” and out comes a cubist ferret riding on a cubist dog’s back. )

Technology is incredible. Artificial Intelligence? Amazing. Cutting edge. There is a bot that will watch hours of romantic comedies and then write a fist-bitingly funny script of its own. Robots? Hella cool.

Now over the last year we at Rocky Books Co have been working with some astonishingly talented (human) illustrators to create the calming yet evocative visuals for our microbooks about trauma caused by domestic violence.

Yup, children’s books about domestic violence. How do you make a children’s book about coping with the worst things a child could go through — abuse, violence, and trauma?

With trauma-informed, sensitive, and insightful illustrators. Illustrators who care as much about the children who will read Rocky Books as their own parents or teachers do.

For Arpita Sawant and Nirupama Vishwanath Rocky Books isn’t just another job, it’s contributing to a movement towards a more caring and empathetic society.

Last month our awesome Co-founder & Director of Psychology Sheena Vassiliades upskilled the whole team on trauma and trauma-informed principles of illustration and design in a 2-part workshop.

My takeaway? How we do things is just as important as why we do them.

I’d like to know if a computer programme understands empathy. Or sensitivity. Or why a little boy clenches his eyes shut when he hears a loud noise.

Our illustrators already do.

Rocky Books makes trauma-informed microbooks that teach children how to cope with trauma. We deal with trauma stemming from domestic violence, bullying, manipulation, abuse, displacement, conflict & war, and more. Rocky Books is committed to #CentreTheChild, always.

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