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INTEREST: Shonen Jump+ Editors Co-Develop AI Tool For Manga Writing

The tool can be used to help come up with titles and names, as well as shortening dialogue to make it fit speech bubbles. The latter is a particularly big deal for manga creators, as individual lines of dialogue will often take multiple rounds of editing in order to succinctly convey the desired message.

As for those moaning every aspect of it, would you have railed against the printing press back in the day?

Last I checked, the printing press wasn’t writing for you. Think a little harder before you attempt to move goalposts.

Last I checked when I read the description of the tool mentioned in this article, it doesn't state that it will write the story for you, only to automate a some tedious parts of it, related to editing. And what does a printing press do?...

The tool can be used to help come up with titles and names, as well as shortening dialogue to make it fit speech bubbles. The latter is a particularly big deal for manga creators, as individual lines of dialogue will often take multiple rounds of editing in order to succinctly convey the desired message.

those are all parts of writing. I don't want to consume a story if every dialogue line has been rinsed through an AI, if all the names and titles have been generated by an AI. I'm just so tired. Everything an AI can do, a human or, you know, a normal human-made computer program like a fantasy-name-generator can do better.

The article literally says that it takes actual humans multiple passes to keep the meaning while fitting space requirements, and they want to use AI that can't understand meaning to do it instead.

All it's doing is adding extra steps that have to be dealt with, the same way poor machine translation being checked after is more work

than simply hiring an effective translator, and that's with its promised use case that none of these ai startups have been able to prove they can even do.

Which again, from the article, is not a surprise considering the source is a NFT company which is now also moving into this new scam market.

The tools can be useful, but it robs humans from getting better at the task itself. Time consuming task doesn't mean it isn't necessary as a part of the creator's journey. If you just want writing without putting the effort into it, it will affect your capacity of evolving as an author. IMHO.

It may start with the tedious minor busywork that nobody likes doing, but how long before someone slips a chapter past the editors with an AI-generated plot? What happens when somebody decides that AI translation is good enough and starts putting all those jobs at stake? How much does AI need to be integrated into manga publishing before they can get away with reviving series whose authors have died? It won't happen any time soon, but there's a lot of harm that can be done down the line if AI is allowed to become an accepted part of the industry.