Meta 正在测试一款名为 StoryKit 的 AI 睡前故事应用，目前仅在特定区域上线，用于观察家长的反应。该应用旨在帮助缺乏想象力的用户生成故事内容。
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Meta 正在测试一款名为 StoryKit 的 AI 睡前故事应用，目前仅在特定区域上线，用于观察家长的反应。
该应用旨在帮助缺乏想象力的用户生成故事内容。
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Meta 正在开发一款名为 StoryKit 的人工智能讲故事应用：https://apps.apple.com/lc/app/storykit-personalized-stories/id6761138926，能够创建带有自定义角色、场景、教训和音乐的 AI 生成儿童故事。正如 App Store 在向家长保证的那样：“你不需要写一个字。”
终于，有一家科技公司找到了外包人类最古老的消遣方式的方法：使用我们的想象力。
StoryKit 最早由 9to5Mac 在 App Store 中发现：https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/meta-testing-storykit-an-ai-iphone-app-that-creates-personalized-childrens-stories/。Meta 向 TechCrunch 证实，该公司正在部分国家试点 StoryKit，以观察家长的使用反馈。Meta 发言人将 StoryKit 描述为一款创意故事讲述应用，用于制作个性化、富有想象力的儿童故事书，并指出它使用 AI 安全过滤器，不包含社交功能，仅对 18 岁以上用户开放。
在应用中生成故事时，您首先选择一个角色，可以通过“拍摄他们最喜欢的玩具或人物的照片来赋予他们生命”进行创建，根据 App Store 上的描述。然后您描述故事的世界并选择一个教训，这样就可以“将善良、勇气或同理心等价值观融入其中，而不会让人觉得是在讲道理。”
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Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit：https://apps.apple.com/lc/app/storykit-personalized-stories/id6761138926, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents, “You don’t need to write a single word.”
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
StoryKit was first spotted in the App Store by 9to5Mac：https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/meta-testing-storykit-an-ai-iphone-app-that-creates-personalized-childrens-stories/. Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is piloting StoryKit in select countries to see how parents like it. A Meta spokesperson described StoryKit as a creative storytelling app used to craft personalized, imaginative storybooks for children and noted that it uses AI safety filters with no social features and is only available to users over the age of 18.
To generate a story in the app, you first select a character, which you can create by “[snapping] a photo of their favorite toy or person to bring them to life,” according to the description in the App Store. Then you describe the world of your story and choose a lesson, so that you can “weave in values like kindness, courage, or empathy without it feeling like a lecture.”
The good news about StoryKit is that it could be a lot worse. Meta regularly ships boneheaded ideas like Instagram deepfake generators：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/ and “pervert glasses：https://www.theverge.com/tech/967995/leaning-into-pervert-glasses-sure-is-a-choice.” Comparatively, is it so bad to doom children to soulless bedtime stories? Should we have expected anything better from the company that promised us a utopian world of virtual reality work meetings：https://www.pcmag.com/news/metas-vr-meeting-rooms-for-work-will-shut-down-next-month?
Humans have their faults, but if we’re good at anything, it’s making stuff up. We’ve been telling stories for as long as we’ve existed. We don’t even have to spin up original tales of fairy princesses and dragon slayers. We have always drawn from mythology, fables, and other stories — the blockbuster movie of the summer：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-calls-ai-an-obvious-trojan-horse/ is literally an ancient myth that originated from this same tradition of oral storytelling.
Parents lead exhausting, busy lives, but it has always been possible to survive bedtime without using an inherently uncreative technology that calculates the most predictable response to a prompt.
You could see how it might be tempting to pull up StoryKit when your kid rejects your bookcase full of children’s books and demands that you improvise an intergalactic tale about a turtle and a hedgehog who are best friends and solve space mysteries. But do we really want to reject a chance at whimsy and silliness and instead outsource these moments of connection to reading AI-generated scripts from our smartphones?
Perhaps the moral of the story here is that we can choose not to live in a world where children are raised on bedtime stories written by large language models. Meta’s vision of the future may be antisocial and bleak, but we have the power to reject that reality.
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