summer island
Summer Island, the comic generated by an Artificial Intelligence that you can read for free
In June, Melbourne's freelance artistic director, Jordan Bookerinspired by the work of Moebiuspublic The Terrible Misfortunes of an Intergalactic Traveler (The Terrible Misadventures of an Intergalactic Traveler), a full story digital comic with illustrations created entirely with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence application that generates images from a written description. We have already seen examples with more or less successful results, such as some quite striking posters of well-known science fiction movies, but today we bring you one of the ones that we consider most surprising. It is a 40-page digital comic that you can download to read for free herewritten by Steve Coulsoncreative director who has worked on series like Westworld and winner of an Emmy. It is clear that AI software is not yet at the stage where a user can describe a story and come up with a fully finished comic, or animation, but the sophistication of the images being produced is creating intense debate. In a recent Instagram post, the Irish filmmaker David OReilly complaint to Give her as a "scam" and argued that it "undermines the work of creators of all kinds, obviously photographers, illustrators and concept artists who shared their work on the internet and never asked to be included in a proprietary learning model".