The downside with Bluey is there’s not sufficient of it. Even with 151 seven-minute-long episodes of the favored kids’s animated present on the market, mother and father of toddlers nonetheless desperately watch for Australia’s Ludo Studio to launch one other season. The solely method to get extra Bluey extra shortly is that if they create their very own tales starring the Brisbane-based household of blue heeler canines.

Luke Warner did this—with generative AI. The London-based developer and father used OpenAI’s newest device, customizable bots called GPTs, to create a narrative generator for his younger daughter. The bot, which he calls Bluey-GPT, begins every session by asking folks their title, age, and a bit about their day, then churns out personalised tales starring Bluey and her sister Bingo. “It names her school, the area she lives in, and talks about the fact it’s cold outside,” Warner says. “It makes it more real and engaging.”

The fundamental model of ChatGPT has, since its launch final yr, been capable of write a kids’s story, however GPTs permit mother and father—or anybody, actually—to constrain the subject and begin with particular prompts, resembling a baby’s title. This means anybody can generate personalised tales starring their child and their favourite character—which means nobody wants to attend for Ludo to drop contemporary content material.

That stated, the tales churned out by AI aren’t wherever nearly as good because the present itself, and lift authorized and moral considerations. At the second, OpenAI’s GPTs are solely accessible to these with a Plus or Enterprise account. The firm has urged they might be rolled out to different customers, however as custom agents are believed to be one of many considerations that led to the corporate’s recent board-level drama, and on condition that researchers have flagged privacy concerns with GPTs, that launch may very well be a methods out. (OpenAI has but to answer to requests for remark for this story.)

When Warner constructed his GPT firstly of November, he’d made it with the intention of placing it up on the GPT Store that OpenAI had within the works. That by no means got here to cross. Just 5 days after he marketed Bluey-GPT on Instagram, he obtained a takedown discover from OpenAI, which disabled public sharing of the GPT. Warner knew utilizing Bluey as the premise for his GPT can be fraught, so he wasn’t shocked. Trademarked names and pictures are virtually all the time a no-go, however the legal guidelines round tales “written” by AI are murky—and Warner’s Bluey bedtime tales are just the start.

Unpacking which legal guidelines apply is not easy: Warner is predicated within the UK, OpenAI is within the US, and Ludo is in Australia. Fictional characters will be protected by copyright within the UK and the US, but it surely’s extra sophisticated in Australia, the place merely naming a personality will not be an infringement with out together with additional components from the work.