My family friends The Casey’s turned this idea into a book and song, which is available now at AmericanSongbooks.com:
“Why are you out of school?” explains each American holiday, the significance, and historical figures we honor, and the REAL reason they are out of school!
It’s a Songbook. A book and a song. Notes are provided in case the reader wants to play/sing.
It was Jennifer’s idea, Evan turned the idea into a song and sang it, his girls sang on the song, Evan’s sister illustrated it, and then they self-published it.
I brought Ruby over to their house a few months ago to hang and I laid down some light mandolin banjo tracks over the song. Here’s a clip of part of it:
Inside the book there is a statement:
NO AI WAS USED IN THE CREATION OF THIS BOOK.
Which, apparently, is a thing you have to say now.
I can vouch for this being a 100% family handcrafted creation. Although Evan told me, perhaps with a slight twist of irony, that the website was created with a bit of AI. He used Wix to create the site, and they have a thing they call Wix’s Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI).
In just a matter of seconds, the ADI will generate a fully developed site in the editor, complete with AI-generated writing and visuals. From this point onward, you’ll experience what truly sets Wix apart from other AI website builders: the extensive customization options and AI tools that accompany you throughout the entire process of building and managing your online business. You can add pre-built sections to existing pages or personally add and edit content on your site. Moreover, you can choose different color palettes and font pairings that align more effectively with your brand. Wix ADI effortlessly ensures consistency throughout your website design by handling the reformatting tasks.
I can tell Evan wrote the copy all over the site, but I can still see the AI peaking through with some kind of random probably-generated images.