Today’s comic is the product of artificial intelligence.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking: “John, your humor is always the result of intelligence that is somewhat suspect and artificial.”
True. But, for the first time, the art itself was created by a computer program. No human artist was involved. I just typed a few words into a program and after a lot of insanely lame images, I finally got this one. Then I wrote the dialogue and from there everything was pretty much normal.
Rest assured, the bread and butter of Last Kiss is always going to be old comic book images. But I do like the idea of having a new tool and new image possibilities.
By the way, sometimes creating A.I. art is easy. But it often doesn’t go the way you planned. (Why does that woman have an extra head? Are those blobs supposed to be fingers? Is that a gun in his pocket or…something else?)
As a teaser, below are a few other images that I’ve created while playing around with various A.I. engines. Warning: These are the raw images. If I use any of these, it’s likely that I’ll be fixing them up in Photoshop first:
Created using the Dall-E 2 AI engine.
Created using the MidJourney AI engine.
Created using the MidJourney AI engine.
Created using the Dream Studio AI engine.
Created using the Dream Studio AI engine.
Created using the MidJourney AI engine.
Transcript:
SCENE: We see a cat leaning over a chess board. He/She/It is talking to a dog who is off panel.
CAT: Checkmate again, Rover!
DOG: <Groan> So this must be why they say…“Dogs play checkers. Cats play chess.”
CAT (thinking): Plus…we cheat.
Art by A.I. Smartie Dogged Dialogue: John Lustig
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Fascinating but a little scary.
Oh, I agree on both counts. But I’m convinced AI is here to stay and will only get bigger in the future. So, I’m giving it a try.
As an owner of several cats, both of the current ones are sitting on my desk now getting in my way: cats are morons. See their tiny little heads? Not much room for brains in there.
“Oh, but they’re SO mysterious!” Mysterious? Yes, because THEY have no idea what they’re going to do next.
But they sure are cute and fuzzy!
I don’t think cats are necessarily dumb. But they do pretty much whatever they want. (So, maybe that makes them smarter than us.) And, yes, they are so darn cute!
The toothy B&W wench looks quite ready for some sort of prime time! Reminds me of Creepy/Eerie magazine era…Reed Crandall? Or…
I looked at that one for a couple minutes. Seems like there could be some hidden images in the hair, but I don’t see any.
i do not want to know how a cat could cheat at chess
I would love to see some of the descriptors you used to generate some of these pictures … but that might reveal the secret sauce … umm … not THAT secret sauce.