A sci-fi manga author from Japan who doesn't consider himself talented at drawing has enlisted the help of artificial intelligence (AI) to create a new dystopian saga titled "Cyberpunk: Peach John“. Using the AI tool Midjourney, which has joined other tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2, the author created a manga of over 100 pages in just six weeks, something it would take a skilled artist about a year to complete. to do.
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As Japan's first fully AI-drawn manga, the work has raised questions about the threat posed by technology could mean for jobs and royalties in the multi-billion dollar comic book industry in country.
Rootport's creative process, which has worked on manga plots previously, involved inserting combinations of text, such as “pink hair,” “Asian boy,” and “stadium jacket,” which evoked images of the story’s hero in about a minute.
The best frames were then selected to produce the book, which has already sparked a buzz online ahead of its March 9 release by Shinchosha, a major publisher. Unlike traditional black-and-white manga, his creation is fully in color, although the same character's faces sometimes appear in markedly different forms.
While AI tools have allowed people without artistic talent to make inroads into the manga industry, copyright infringements are still a concern for some. Some Japanese lawmakers have also raised concerns about artists' rights and the possibility that assistants for manga artists will be replaced by AI.
However, other manga artists see AI as a useful companion, able to help them visualize what they have in mind and suggest approximate ideas, which they then challenge themselves to improve. Overall, opinions on the role of AI in the manga industry are still mixed and divided.
