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

The author, Rootport, took just six weeks to finish the over-100-page manga, which would have taken a skilled artist a year to complete. - AFP

TOKYO (AFP): The author of a sci-fi manga about to hit shelves in Japan admits he has "absolutely zero" drawing talent, so turned to artificial intelligence to create the dystopian saga.

All the futuristic contraptions and creatures in "Cyberpunk: Peach John" were intricately rendered by Midjourney, a viral AI tool that has sent the art world into a spin, along with others such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2.