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No sooner has a landmark been reached for the feature that reinvented what it means to be human than we move on to its next instalment.
What a metaphor for life that is.
But are metaphors what's on your mind?
Or does something else tickle your fancy?
That, I cannot know.
I cannot know because even I, grand puppet-master of the internet that I am, have no control over what happens next. It's true. Only you can decide that.
And you can decide it by posting a topic for debate in the comments section below.
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Lots of people on LinkedIn over the last few weeks using ChatGPT to create images of action figures of themselves in bubble packs with all sorts of accessories. Has anybody tried this?
Or have people tried anything else? I ended up getting the AI to come up with covers for a limited series of twelve comics with me as the star. I just threw out ideas for villains and covers and the AI did all the hard work. I have no idea what would happen inside the comics - it would be up to the artist/AI to turn my random thoughts into stories. Made me feel like Stan.
Will put a link in a comment below, just in case Steve has something switched in that puts comments with links in a spam file.
The covers can be seen at https://artisticactuary.com/the-artistic-actuary-comic-cover-gallery/
Feel free to delete this comment if you don't want links up here Steve..
I did do the action figure thing that was popular on Linked-in. I did one of myself and one of my wife and we chuckled over them but didn’t post them anywhere.
Which is lucky because the next week my Linked-In feed was swamped with ‘think pieces’ by advertising creatives looking to make a name for themselves, decrying the death of creativity - as evidenced in lots of people following that fad to produce silly photos for 5 mins light amusement.
God I hate Linked In.
This covers are great! Did you use a single photo for all of them?
Maybe Miss Ann's love-interest could be Tim On. Bumping into Tim, in Athens, Ann could introduce herself, whereupon Tim could reply - your name's similar to mine: "I am misanthropos!"
The left Van G resembles Kirk Douglas's Van G, with its ginger locks. One of the others ought to be Paul Gaugin, in keeping with the film!
The 3-handed schoolboy dangermash's calculator looks like an emblem on his school blazer - or it's floating in mid-air.
The next cover (fiery curry) reveals the calculator in pocket indicates, for the AI, mathematical aptitude/actuarial potential?
Phillip
Oh, at school, as well as SOH CAH TOA, we also had Sides Of Houses Can Always Hold Tons Of Adverts!
Phillip
Probably 6 or 7 different photos of me used. I didn't submit anybody else's photo, though, going for verbal descriptions instead.
Yes - I generally told the AI to give me a calculator, a Starbucks coffee and some art gear.
For us, the old angler sat on his chair and hoped
I'm not a fan of AI in these cases ( well this was for fun I mean in replacing artists) but those are some excellent covers and I would pick up a few of those comics if I saw them in a spinner rack etc
dangermash, If you had enough access, could you not get ChatGPT to script the actual stories and 'draw' them?
-sean
Phillip, dangermash, at first I thought the artist holding the guitar on #4 was supposed to be Jeremy Corbyn. I think it was the hat...
-sean
Some Old Hag Cracked All Her Teeth On Apples
DW
I asked a couple of times how the Artistic Actuary defeated a villain and it came up with some incomprehensible actuarial mumbo jumbo about conducting a risk analysis and changing assumptions and that was enough for me to stop at the covers.
Dangermash, thanks for the topic. AI has certainly come on a long way since the last time I tried to use it to create images. Especially when it comes to inserting written text into them.
I wonder what would happen if I tried to get AI to write a post for this site?
If you do, try getting it to write in the style of Stan Lee or Charlie or Basil Fawlty or Donald Trump or David Brent or….
If you do, try getting it to write in the style of Stan Lee or Charlie or Basil Fawlty or Donald Trump or David Brent or….
I don't know about a Steve Does Comics post written by an AI, Steve. Could technology ever match your well known mastery of language? Good luck getting a machine to come up with 'puce-panted powerhouse' on its own!
Plus, an AI would have too much information about the comics - no more 'I don't know what happens in this one...' It wouldn't be the same!
-sean
Danger Mash! Charlie is stumped! A cool and Interesting topic but a topic Charlie has never thought about.
Indeed his only encounter with AI is google searches where AI is definitely a time saver allowing one to dig out useless information (and basically only that) and precluding stumbling down rabbit holes!
Those covers are amazing and I'm in awe at what AI can achieve nowadays. It's hard to believe there isn't a conscious mind at work and you have to wonder what AI will be capable of ten years from now.
The curry cover reminded me of the time I ate a genuine Indian curry made by an Indian neighbour who'd been a chef in a local hotel (he got fired for being drunk on duty too often). The curry was super-hot and every mouthful was torture but I ate the lot because it seemed impolite not to.
Maybe a bit out of topic. But have you also noticed that current Marvel comics look like they were "penciled" by AI? It looks so much different than before they started using computer tools and really worked with pencil and ink brush.
Anon, modern comic book art does tend to have a synthetic blandness to it.
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