Machine magic or art menace? Japan's first AI manga

"I don't really see AI as a threat -- rather, I think it can be a great companion,"

Wait until who can really claim copyright for that.

AI has come earlier than expected.

We cannot condemn tech development that only contributes to peace and human advancement.

As a freelance translator I couldnt wait for 100% accurate machine translation, people talking to each other through earbuds & caption glasses, etc. Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket, its time to innovate.

There are a thousand fields I don't see machines taking over even in the next few hundred years.

Ex.: real estate, moving services, etc.

AI just takes images it finds on the internet and mashes them together

No. AI learns what the images look like and redraws them. The images will look like they used some reference images but they will never be the same.

Interesting..

The image drawn by the AI is 1 chosen from the wide space of all possible images, for example, if you think about it, an image 256x256 pixels has a huge but "LIMITED" number of pixels combinations, we think we can take an unlimited number of pictures with a camera at 256x256, there is everything possible we can imaging in that 256x256, a picture of the new car never imagined yet, the numbers of the tomorrow LOTO, the face of everybody, etc... but still, it is not infinite because of the quantization 256x256, pretty mind-blowing stuff. If one day we could learn how to move from 1 picture to another so it does follow the time flow, we will be able to see the future. Anyway, right now the way they do, they trained a neural network from moving from a 5% degraded image to the original perfect image, then they fill up the entire image with random pixels and apply that neural network in series until something is converging, controlled by the input context.

AI just takes images it finds on the internet and mashes them together,

All art is derivative.

AI gave this storyteller a way to express themselves. Thats awesome.

All the incompetence of AI-generated manga mentioned here is a matter of development and time. 

AI can already write a novel. So it's very likely that we'll soon see fully AI-generated manga, including story and drawing though it may take more time to gain its individuality as an artist such that we can always tell this manga is written by Jojo's artist.

The problem is that the Japanese tend to prefer tedious manual work. If they underestimate AI and cling to physical labor, they would lose significant market share to emerging foreign artists who are good at using AI, as we already see in robot (where is poor asimo now?) and car industries.

Is the ai doing the "choreography"" too? Pretty sure it can eventually, just not sure if it's already there

And while AI can, but how do you substantiate if ai is infringing on copyright materials or not