I see a lot of you posting your creations in a variety of other threads and figured why not dedicate a thread to GAI?
I’ve been dabbling quite a bit with all of the tools available to us. Some of you know, I’m a producer/director and I really want to get a grasp on what GAI will be in my industry. I have a weekly live comic book show called Comic Book Cannon on YouTube. It’s literally below the quality of cable access TV, so don’t judge. That being said, I’ve created a completely AI character as an added personality to our show. His name is Chet GeePoT and here is how I created him:
Midjourney- created his complete look in this tool. At first he was teenage boy, but decided to age him up by 30 years and have his setting be in a comic book shop.
ChatGPT- I use this for his scripts. I give a basic direction of what I want him to talk about and make sure he is mean and snarky…because that’s his personality. He’s a complete d*ck.
Play.Ht- I used this for his audio. I upload his script into this tool and output his script read. He already has a voice I use. That being said, I have a free trial membership, but won’t be paying the $99 a month to continue. I’ll find another tool.
D-ID.com- I upload the audio here and this tool animates whatever image I want of his to his script read.
This absolutely fascinates me. I’m just getting started with this and I’m really excited to see where it all goes. You can check Chet out at the link below. We posted his NCBD segment from the show as a Short. I’d love to see what you all are working on.
How far off until I can input some words about a story I’m interested in reading and a comic is produced? It would be like reading a new story on demand. Then, I would never need to buy comics.
I’m a little wary of instances where AI is used to create images based on the work of artists who weren’t compensated or allowed to opt out. I know this is a Debbie Downer comment, but it’s already tough to make a living in art and I wonder how AI will affect human artistic pursuits in the coming decades.
This is such a valid point. The recent Drake and The Weekend collaboration all written and produced by AI is similar to this. Those artists were not a part of it at all, but they have no legal claims to it. A lot has to be figured out very soon.
I was actually thinking the same thing. One thread got hijacker’s a bit (likely my fault) and figured it’s be best to have a place to just share creations as long as they are within forum guidelines.
I personally am terrified of ai, as an artist myself art is already a pretty challenging field to make a living off of , ai makes it even more challenging because so many companies are just going to go the cheaper route of generating ai rather than pay an artist. Hell yesterday I saw store exclusives using ai generated art for the variant. Another big issue is how ai indiscriminately steals from tons of different artists, often without permission to generate the art. A big example is Kim Jung Gi whose art was fed into an ai generator to replicate his art just after he died.
I do think new emerging technology can be good and exciting and im not fully against ai but because of how our capitalist society works it doesn’t matter how good or talented an artist is because companies are just going to cut corners for the sake of not paying artists, when earning a living doing the arts is such a struggle.
I’m worried we are advancing way too fast with AI without understanding it. I feel like we’re the scientists in Jurassic Park. Things didn’t end well there.
I’m saying this as someone who loves technology and such too.
Saw a news story about how we’ve got AI simulating the voices of folks for scams. I love technology but this is moving way too fast with way too little control or concern for consequences. Makes me nervous.
