“Hey, ChatGPT, make me a chapter of the manga ‘Black Jack'”. Osamu Tezuka’s heirs don’t seem to have as much respect as they seem to have for the so-called “god of manga” now that it’s almost 35 years since his death. The artist, who in his death throes asked to be allowed to work a little longer and who drew some 150,000 pages of manga by himself, would surely be delighted with artificial intelligence writing an extra chapter of his most remembered manga. Oh, yes. Almost for sure.
In shirtsleeves
That artificial intelligence is supposed to have come to take away our jobs, salaries and lives is not news, but that the authors themselves (or the distant family of the same) agree to have their work studied by a machine and passed through filters to have something more or less new. In this case, the AI has learned the plot structure and character relationships of ‘Black Jack’ and is supposed to be ready to make its own episode.
To add insult to injury, it will be the first chapter since the last manga was published in 1983 in Shukan Shonen Champion magazine. Tezuka’s son Makoto is not entirely convinced, though: “Although I proposed it myself, I’m aware that it’s outrageous and, even today, I’m hesitant about whether it will work.” Just the words of encouragement you want to hear from your leader.
However, in another statement he has pulled out of his sleeve that his father would use AI if he were alive and that’s enough to try to do the creative Ouija board. To demonstrate what artificial intelligence is capable of doing they showed drawings in which the doctor uses a cell phone as proof of what machines are capable of doing.
It is not the first time that an AI creates a work, precisely, by Osamu Tezuka: in 2020 ‘Paidon’ was already published with his style and his way of making the arguments but without the express permission of the family. What is known as “stealing”. Anyway, we know that this project will use ChatGPT-4 and that it will mark a new barrier in artistic ethics that, to tell the truth, nobody seems to care too much about. Strange times.
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