AI Stickers: A New Era of Creativity for Kids

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1:04There's a new company out there called Stickerbox. They are making a AI image generation sticker printer essentially for kids. Today we're going to talk about some of the features and why this may or may not be a good idea for kids. I think it's pretty cool personally. But before we get into all that, Jaden, why don't you tell them about our school community? Yeah, every single week we record a bonus piece of content. We don't post anywhere else. We post it on our AI Hustle school community. This week we did a whole video talking about, and we basically share all of the analytics that we don't share publicly about our own personal projects, how we're personally using AI.

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2:46is this is I actually have an interesting prediction that maybe is contrary to a lot of people. I think a lot of people might see this and say this sounds dumb like this isn't gonna be a huge smash, you know, hit product. But I actually think it's gonna it is a very niche product. It's very interesting. I think a lot of parents might buy something like this for their kids for Christmas, like myself included. I think my kids would absolutely love this. And I actually think this is the right way to integrate AI into technology. It's such a random use case. But like, when we talk about AI hardware, you think about like the rabbit um r1 or the humane pin which for some reason i did a podcast recently and completely forgot the name of the humane pin so i'm happy i've remembered but um there's the humane pin there's the be wearable uh wristwatch there's the friendship necklace and sam altman is building his new company with johnny ive the io whatever the heck whatever the heck that's going to be there's all of these different devices which basically are some variation of just like a phone that it's basically like a phone.

3:42And so and it has like Chai Chupiti built in. I like this because this is creating a physical product, which is generated by AI. It's an interesting use case, kids would love just talking to it and making a sticker. And so it's just a product like that's all that's all it does. It does. It does one thing. And you're not going to complain that like, you know, for example, the rabbit are one, I think they way oversold it. Like, this is the new AI device that's going to help you think better and be smarter and do all this stuff. And at the end of the day, it's like, it's just an it was just an Android phone, basically, that had a camera on it.

4:11And it's like everything like it should have just been an app on the on the iPhone is basically the big criticism it had, like, why do I have this whole device that's a camera and I have to get a subscription for this to just be an app on my iPhone. This is the first time I'm like, okay, this is not trying to replace chat GPT or your phone, just one simple, interesting use case that I think people will pay for. Yeah, I actually think this is a really cool idea as well. If you are watching this video, you can see what it looks like, but it actually is very reminiscent of an old Etch-A-Sketch from back in the day.

4:42So it's red and boxy and it has just a black and white screen on it, which is really cool. So it kind of has a retro feel to it. But what's cool about it is actually a thermal printer. So you don't need to put ink in it, which is another huge headache with a lot of like the kids toys or like home printers is replacing ink. It's just a thermal printer. So think of like a label printer for shipping and packaging. It does the same thing. So you never have to put ink in it. You have to get new sheet rolls of paper, but that's quite inexpensive. And then it just has a screen on it and it will listen to your voice prompt for whatever you want it to generate.

5:20And then if you like it, it'll show it on the screen. If you like it, you just hit the button and it will print it out. So I think it's a really cool concept. I think kids will love it. It, in my opinion, would help or at least foster creativity, which is always a good thing in kids. Whether or not, you know, even though they're not necessarily drawing it out themselves on a piece of paper, it's, you know, just getting to think in different ways and come up with their own ideas. I think it's really cool. $9, honestly, pretty cheap. I think this is cool. I think, you know, they did, it looks like they did put some safety guards on it as far as yeah i was wondering about that content so like they someone said they put it to the test to see if they could come up with like something gross or whatever and it wouldn't do it so um it really seems like they thought through a lot of different a lot of different angles with this and and i think it's i think it's pretty cool the one thing that i wonder about is it's almost like hear me out on this it's kind of like a pyramid scheme with these kind of products where it has to be successful for it to continue to work because it does cost money to generate these images unless they're running an open source model locally on the device, which I don't think that for an image generation model, I don't think that they have one.

6:33Although if you're doing stickers, it is sort of possible that that would be the future of this device because it's not like you have to generate these colored images, it's kind of like black and white images. What's interesting in their concept here is that it generates the sticker, you print it out, and then you color it in. So it's like coloring page stickers for kids. I know for a fact, my kids would love this like if I have this they would love it kids like like a hard like piece of hardware a tactile toy where and I like not having to give them my phone for stuff there's another device which maybe people judge me and think it's stupid but we have the the Yodos have you seen those things Jamie like the Yodo audiobook players no I haven't looks basically exactly like this except you stick like a audiobook card in the top of it and it will play an audiobook my kids love them and yes I could just get audiobooks on my phone and play it for them but I don't want to have to give them my phone anytime they want to listen to an audiobook.

7:25So they have like a book full of these little audiobook cards, and they can stick them into this little speaker player thing, and they can push, push, play and pause. And I love it because it's a device I can give them, it feels like they're listening to an audiobook, and I can choose what audiobooks they listen to. So I'm like, all right, enjoy Anne of Green Gables, right? Like, it's like, it feels very not brainwashed. And I think that people like those kind of experiences for the children. And this is just another one of those where it's like, they it's, I know people are like, well, you're outsourcing your kid's creativity to AI, but it's like, no, you're not like the kid can still color it.

7:56They're being creative, thinking about the idea, the chances of them like sitting there and doodling any of these things as a two as like a four year old or a six year old are, I think, very slim. And maybe they'll do one and get sick of it and move on because it takes so long. So I think being able to think of an idea, have it created, color it out. Honestly, like if you want your kid to be more artistic is probably going to push them in the right direction. Maybe like you got to start at some level. So I think this is a really great thing. I like the guard rails. But as far as my giant pyramid scheme goes, you know, in the least offensive way possible, the problem with this tool is that if everyone stopped buying them, and they sold like they sold like 1000 of them for$100.

8:38Well, it does cost you some money and API credits to to generate the stickers. And I think they probably find that people generate maybe like 100 pictures and the novelty of the toy wears off, they're hoping that or they're hoping that more new users will be coming in fast enough to pay for the API credits of the old people because like you can spend five cents for for a token or for like an image or sometimes 50 cents an image depending on what AI image generation model you're using so like it can be expensive now the one caveat that I will put on here to say that this isn't a pyramid scheme is the fact that you have to rebuy the printer paper and I the sticker paper and I think if you have to buy it from them they could technically jack up the price of that to like whatever like they could just say in one in one roll of sticker paper you could print a hundred stickers so if we spend 10 cents per each sticker we're going to charge you know make it so it's 20 cents for the for the roll so basically maybe maybe the um the sticker roll is the secret to making this thing not a uh a giant pyramid scheme that's that's interesting thought i'm actually looking at their website right now but they have the paper refills um so three rolls is six dollars so for 180 uh stickers it's only six dollars so that's i mean that's cheap that's real cheap yeah right now i don't think the cost of the image generation is baked in but um yeah that's interesting though so right now it is a pyramid scheme but they could very easily i think get it out of pyramid scheme mode and i'm also sure that people would um do things where they're like they'll figure out how to like get your own printer paper, basically, like if they jacked up the price a ton, like how, you know, inkjet printers are super expensive to replace the ink, like the printer's like 50 bucks, but the ink is like 120.

10:20And then people just figure out how to like do their own ink refills from China. So I think people would figure that out too. So yeah, it is a tricky situation where they are possibly paying for ongoing costs with this thing. But I think kids will love it. And at the end of the day, I mean, if it all went bankrupt for$100, I'm sure your kid can get a few months of good use out of it and I don't think it's going to go bankrupt I think it's a good idea I think over Christmas this thing is going to sell like I might actually buy one of these if I'm being honest so yeah I'm uh I'm into it as well I'm I think it's I think it's a cool idea especially for the cost I mean you look at those I think what you described earlier is similar to those Tony's things where you put like the character on the box it's like Disney and then it does this Disney story yes yep those are super expensive but people sell them like hotcakes so yes exactly so this thing's going to sell good.

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