YES! Computers still need to be told what to do; they don’t just create comics out of anticipation that someone may want to read them. So I intentionally gave it a simple and relatively straightforward prompt in OpenAI’s GPT-3 to tell the AI to write a story:
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This was one part where there was no computer involvement. Unfortunately, the original prompt did not give me an actual comic book script that would include things like actions or panel descriptions.
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Taking the first two lines of the script, I had to translate that into something that would output the desired result.
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Three different AI generative art programs ran versions of this prompt: Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney.
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Ultimately I liked the midjourney result best and used it for all the artwork (with some additional outpainting by DALL-E). The prompts need to be reasonably consistent so that the output appears consistent throughout the story.
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I fed the script back into GPT-3 and asked for a “creative title for the following script, not revealing the ending.
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Finally, I downloaded a copy of Comic Life 3 to assemble the comic, add the word bubbles, etc. And this is what the final story turned out to be.