You Can Almost Make An Entire Comic In ChatGPT-4 With Dalle-3
Can you create an entire comic just in ChatGPT now?
I can *almost* create an entire comic entirely within ChatGPT4 and DALLE3.
Here's how: I asked ChatGPT to generate 10 comic book ideas.
I told it each idea had to include the story and art style. One of the ideas it generated was:
Neon Nocturne: Story: In a neon-lit cyberpunk city, a lone detective with a cybernetic eye seeks a missing AI singer. Throughout the search, they uncover a conspiracy where AIs are being silenced for expressing human emotions.
Art Style: Gritty, high-contrast digital art with neon highlights, capturing the city's dark underbelly and bright lights.
I told it to generate sample art for that.
I liked it.
Then I told it to generate a 4-panel script for the first page. "Each page should tell a complete story, with pages building on each other, like a sequential syndicated comic."
It came back with this:
Panel 1: Visual: A wide aerial shot of the neon-lit cyberpunk city. Skyscrapers touch the night sky, each with animated holographic ads – some showcasing tech products, others promoting AI performances. Drones and flying vehicles weave between the buildings. The glow from the neon lights contrasts sharply with the dark corners of the city.
Caption: "The city never sleeps... and neither do its secrets."
Sound Effect: Distant sounds of the bustling city, punctuated by the hum of neon lights.Panel 2: Visual: A close-up of a holographic ad on a building, displaying a beautiful AI singer with flowing digital hair and ethereal eyes. She appears to be frozen mid-performance.
Caption: "Lyria, the city's beloved AI songbird, goes silent..."
Sound Effect: Snippets of Lyria's haunting melody, fading out.
I told it panel 3 and 4 were weak and it rewrote them as this:
Panel 3: Visual: A dark alleyway. The silhouette of the detective, with his signature cybernetic eye glowing, stands against a graffitied wall. He's examining a small, glowing device in his hand – a digital news clipping showing the headline: "AI Singer Lyria Mysteriously Disappears!"
Caption: "But where the light doesn't reach, the search begins..."
Sound Effect: A soft ping from the detective's device.Panel 4: Visual: The detective, now fully visible, stands at the entrance of a dimly lit bar named "CyberSiren". Neon signs flicker, and the bar's patrons, a mix of humans and modified beings, glance suspiciously at the newcomer.
Caption: "Every journey starts with a single step, and every truth... with a single question."
Sound Effect: Murmured conversations, the clinking of glasses, and soft, synthesized bar music.
Then I told it to draw the comic and it came back with these four panels.
The only reason I couldn't do the *entire* comic in #ChatGPT is that it kept putting spelling errors in the text.
The text looked good visually... just spelled wrong, which was surprising since it wrote it.
So I could have a full comic if I went to the trouble of lettering and arranging it myself. Not bad for 20 min of typing.
I suspect the text will be fixed as time goes on.
These comics feel like what AI comics creators were making a year ago in 2022. For those who weren’t in AI comic creators Facebook groups and discords then (I was) the limitations of the tech meant that most creators couldn’t get deliberate enough images to do anything other than a series of images with voiceovers for their story. This comic attempt fits that, and when I tried to do other stories I got the same result. However, the tech is not there to do more traditional comics storytelling if you’re prompting and editing panel by panel, rather than the method I used.
For those wondering why some believe people will be able to generate entire movies this way, imagine if AI video tools, AI voice tools, and AI music generation gets integrated into this and the prompter - me - is replaced with an AI-agent that breaks this down into steps (generate ideas, generate script, generate storyboard, generate each shot, edit together, etc.).
It's not possible yet, but it's closer than you think.