The Biggest Box of Cheerios in the World
A very quick fun storytelling experiment using 90% AI generated content.
I recently purchased a giant “Limited Edition Heart Shaped Family Sized” box of Cheerios for my three growing boys to satisfy their morning hunger. As is usual in our house, I started to make up a silly song, this time about The Biggest Box of Cheerios in the World. I have been having conversations with my 11 year old son about all that is going on in the world of AI, and I wanted to show him ChatGPT now running natively on the iPhone. In addition, we have been listening to the surprise hit of the year, the Peaches song from The Super Mario Bros. Movie. I used the new Whisper feature of ChatGPT for iPhone and asked ChatGPT to write a song in the style of Jack Black about The Biggest Box of Cheerios in the World. This is the resulting song:
(Verse 1)
In a little town where dreams unfold,
Lies the story that's never been told,
Of a box so grand and a tale so bold,
The biggest box of Cheerios the world could hold.
(Chorus)
Oh, it's the giant box of golden rings,
Brings smiles, to faces it clings,
Morning's treasure in breakfast's wings,
In every crunch, a joy it brings.
(Verse 2)
Wider than a river, tall as the trees,
Big enough to feed all the seven seas,
Every bowl poured, a hunger it frees,
Breakfast of champions, it's the bees knees.
(Chorus)
The biggest box of Cheerios, under the sun,
A delight for everyone, no need to run,
Taste the sunshine, a day begun,
With each crispy O, it's breakfast fun.
(Bridge)
In every corner of this great big world,
Beneath every flag that's unfurled,
From every boy, to every girl,
We share the joy, these golden swirls.
(Chorus)
Yes, it's the biggest box of Cheerios, so wide and tall,
Feeds the love, in big and small,
In the story that we recall,
The biggest box of Cheerios stands tall.
(Outro)
In the biggest box of Cheerios we find,
A symbol of love for all mankind,
The breakfast choice that's so refined,
In our hearts, it's forever enshrined.
The lyrics for this fun song were generated in a few seconds on my iPhone and brought about many laughs.
From that, I used Midjourney (https://www.midjourney.com) to generate some fun images of a Jack Black like character. I also used Midjourney to generate the background plate. I used the new Generative Fill (https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/generative-fill.html) in Adobe Photoshop to expand the image on both sides and to add in the oversized bowl of cereal.
I used ElevenLabs (https://beta.elevenlabs.io) to bring the lyrics of the song to life in the style of Jack Black. I added a couple of additional sound effects from the BBC Sound Archive (https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk) these were the only non AI generated elements.
The video was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. The closed Captioning text was auto generated Premiere using the new-ish captions tool that automatically scans the audio tracks and generates captions that are almost always close to original audio.
From start to finish, this was a 30 minute experiment made during a recent 2-day AI conference.
