ChatGPT’s rise seems limitless. After passing exams, writing press articles and lines of code, the successful program that generates texts thanks to artificial intelligence is now launching into manga thanks to an experiment by the author of One Piecethe Japanese Eiichiro Oda.
The author of this world famous manga, with more than 500 million copies sold, confessed last month to having found himself confronted with the syndrome of the white page. ” Good morning. It’s the author. I can’t seem to find a plot for One Piece next week. Could you imagine one? Super good please,” the author asked ChatGPT, according to a video posted by his team on Twitter.
Second attempt validated
Within seconds, the program imagined a story where the heroes meet new friends and fight with new enemies. He tried to sell this story to the author, touting a mysterious tribe, new comrades, and a new perspective on an existing character that would be appreciated by his readers. But the author retorted: “Sorry, it’s boring,” he wrote to him, asking for a better idea.
ChatGPT then imagined a new plot where an alien allies himself with the characters of One Piece and his hero Luffy to battle a witch and rebuild his home planet destroyed by an evil spaceship. “Thank you, that’s what I’ll draw,” replied Eiichiro Oda, hinting that the next episode of the saga would be based on this new plot.
Since the publication of volume 1 in 1997, the hunt for One Piece, treasure coveted by all pirates and in the first place Luffy, hero of the series, now has more than 100 volumes to his credit and multiplies sales records. Eiichiro Oda (48) has even been awarded a “Guinness World Record” in the category “largest number of copies of the same comic book published by a single author”.