I am not a fan “generative” so-called AI for creating content and have not exactly hidden that.
But there are obviously uses for some of the technology – especially the non-generative kind.
For example:
One way I’ll likely be using it in the future is to turn my novels into animated films should the tech get advanced enough for what I want to do. It’s not yet, despite what the AI geek chorus who thinks insists.
But I will likely do something like this with my own fiction:
1. Take the screenplay I wrote for my first novel (Zombie Cop), based on my own IP, that came out of my own brain
2. Adapt it to a graphic novel, which will also basically serve as a storyboard
3. Pay a specific artist I hired for a few comicbook-style ads in the past, who I want to do this, and who uses his actual brain, too, and has legitimate skill, and does not prompt out/parasite off of images created by other, superior artists
4. Use some emerging so-called AI tools to help turn that graphic novel into an animated movie, using my own script from my own brain, the artwork I paid for that came from the artist’s brain, and not burgling content from others’ brains
5. Hire some people I know in the industry to help me with the logistics, as well as hire Method acting performers to perform the voices, and give my characters more depth and nuance
6. Produce it, show it, sell it if there’s a market… or else leave it for Willis to do if the above can’t be done by me due to technological or other reasons, as I ain’t getting any younger, and that evil to-do list I have ain’t getting any shorter
And so it shalt be.
Maybe..
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Ben Settle
