He passed exams, wrote press articles and lines of code: ChatGPT, 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, admitted 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.
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 extra-terrestrial 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 the “One Piece”, treasure coveted by all pirates and in the first place Luffy, hero of the series, now has more than 100 volumes to its credit and multiplies records of sales.
Eiichiro Oda (48) has even been awarded a Guinness record in the category “largest number of copies of the same comic book published by a single author”.
First declined in animated series by Toei Animation 1999, which includes more than 1,000 episodes broadcast to date, the universe of One Piece has since developed on all possible and imaginable media.
The upcoming release on Netflix of a series with live actors is supposed to help it reach an even wider audience, according to its producers.