“OpenAI’s latest image generation model, DALL-E 3, makes it SO easy to create comic books!” posted Ammaar Reshi on Twitter. The former Palintir product manager (now a design manager at Brex) then shared “four panels for a fan-made Batman comic made in under five minutes.”
Comic Book Resources reports that then “social media spent most of the day dunking on the post, criticizing the idea of celebrating the idea of a ‘comic’ created through ‘A.I. art.'”
Comic book artist Javier Rodriguez noted that this is no different from simply cutting and pasting other comic books into a comic… [“You could do the same thing a while ago with a photocopier and some scissors. Stealing other people’s art seems easier now and lucrative for those behind generative models.”] Comic book writer Sarah Horrocks called out the use of Brian Bolland’s work… [“That’s literally just Brian Bolland’s Joker. The shamelessness of this ‘technology’ is appalling. I guess it’s okay to steal. Just call it AI.”]
Justine Bateman, the former actor who has become a vocal opponent of A.I. usage in the arts, explained that DC must act to legally protect usage like this in the future… [“@DCOfficial, the longer you wait to send legal teams to @OpenAI, etc to demand that generative #AI training sets containing your copyrighted work be deleted, the more you make your entire library ‘fair use’…”]
