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Sometimes you have to make extremely hard decisions as a founder and team. We have made the decision to REMOVE all AI features from Storygrounds. Since last November, we’ve been in Alpha mode and have learned AN ELEPHANT LOAD. 🐘 Some Learnings: - Readers are enjoying visual quests, sharing their ideas on stories, and getting feedback from comic creators. - Readers want quests to have even more impact on the comic story. - Readers want to be able to submit their own hand-drawn creations. - Readers wanted more organization of the actions they completed and still have available. - Making the quest experience smooth and easy to understand is key. With the consent of our creators, we tested GenAI as a visual communication tool between creators and their fan communities (never part of the comic making process). We’ve gotten quite mixed feedback, its clear that a lot of creators and readers don't want AI in their creative platforms. Given our stance towards ensuring creators are first, we are taking action on the feedback by removing GenAI from our product in its entirety. We didn’t make this decision to remove GenAI from the platform lightly, but it was an easy decision for the type of space that we wish to create alongside creators. The speed and proliferation of GenAI is incredible, I think there are going to be some amazing breakthroughs and people are developing incredible tools and products for the next gen of consumer. I just believe that flying 4,000 mph headlong into the AI revolution isn't necessary to fix a lot of problems for content creators and their fans today and deliver the best stories possible, and that is where we are going to be focused. There is time to do a lot and grow a lot and see where things go, and to see how creators and readers feel about the content that is created with AI and the tools themselves. We continue to ship awesome features, sign amazing creators, and create incredible stories with mind-blowing art. I am excited for our definitive product release soon, and starting to scale. Thank you Linda Giang for being an amazing voice to our community. Thank you to the entire Storygrounds team for being the best team in the business, and thank you to our partners at Makers Fund and Fabric Ventures (and others) for being incredible partners.
Storygrounds | Alpha Test Updates & No GenAI
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I enjoy the thought put into your explanation of this decision. The part where you explain the unessesary act of jumping to warp speed into the use of this new technology. You are also in line with what your fans are asking for. I’m guessing you have pretty loyal fans to this character driven media. As the technology advances, as laws or accepted norms become established, your consumers might have a change of opinion on the subject. The small close nit company will be Ables to make any furture decisions should that time ever come. Great Job taking a stance!
This is a fantastic decision! GenAI doesn’t belong anywhere Creativity is core to the experience.
Linda Giang Andrew N. Green I appreciate the work you are doing for creatives. Coming from family with multiple creatives I can't tell you how important and BIG this decision is. Creatives are the light and I appreciate you continually making space for it. Like I said wonderfully talented creatives in my family. Definitely your one to follow and I hope someone in my family gets a chance to work with you. DM me for portfolio links 🙂
Exceptionally good to hear and I think the right call ♥️
Listening to your users and creators - during an alpha - and quickly pivoting - says a lot about you and the team. I know this decision wasn’t made lightly, well done Andrew N. Green and team!
Bravo! ❤️
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Very good!
Head of Content & Operations @ Storygrounds | Webcomics
3moLove how we're researching, learning, listening, learning, researching, listening, and moving in a direction that truly supports the folks we're making this for. 💛