A social media post boasting about the ability of the latest version of text-to-image artificial intelligence (AI) tool Dall-E to create comics was widely mocked by artists over the weekend.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Twitter (now X) user and AI enthusiast Ammar Reshi posted<\/a><\/strong> a 4-panel fan-made comic of Batman, which he said was generated in OpenAI’s recently-released Dall-E 3.<\/p>\n Although a few other AI fans on Twitter\/X were impressed by the comic strip, several prominent comic book artists were not moved.<\/p>\n “You could do the same thing a while ago with a photocopier and some scissors,” said<\/strong><\/a> comic book artist Javier Rodriguez.<\/p>\n “Stealing other people’s art seems easier now and lucrative for those behind generative models.”<\/p>\n Ramon Villalobos called the comic “s**t” and a “mess”, pointing out that the Batmobile switched designs between two of the panels and that the Joker design was clearly swiped from someone else’s creation.<\/p>\n Twitter user Sarah Horrocks said<\/strong><\/a> the Joker design was copied from British comic artist Brian Bolland’s version.<\/p>\n Bolland’s version of the Joker features in the famous one-shot graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke<\/em>.<\/p>\n “The shamelessness of this ‘technology’ is appalling. I guess it’s okay to steal. Just call it AI,” Horrocks stated.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s latest image generation model, DALL-E 3, makes it SO easy to create comic books!<\/p>\n Here are 4 panels for a fan-made Batman comic made in under 5 minutes.<\/p>\n Prompts included in the ALT.<\/p>\n Enjoy!🔥 pic.twitter.com\/9LhZj4I0KW<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ammaar Reshi (@ammaar) September 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n