TOKYO: The author of a sci-fi manga about to hit shelves in Japan admits he has 'absolutely zero' drawing talent, so turned to artificial intelligence to create the dystopi
All the futuristic contraptions and creatures in Cyberpunk: Peach John were intricately rendered by Midjourney, a viral AI tool that has sent the art world into a spin, along with others such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2.
Unlike traditional black-and-white manga, his brainchild is fully coloured, although the faces of the same character sometimes appear in markedly different forms. Like other AI text-to-image generators, its fantastical, absurd and sometimes creepy inventions can be strikingly sophisticated, provoking soul-searching among artists.
When Netflix released a Japanese animated short in January using AI-generated backgrounds, it was lambasted online for not hiring human animators. When Netflix released a Japanese animated short in January using AI-generated backgrounds, it was lambasted online for not hiring human animators. Some manga artists welcome the new possibilities offered by the technology.
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