What Happens When AI Turns Flash Fiction into Comics?

I’ve always seen myself as a storyteller first and a writer/creator of stories second. As such I have always been fascinated in trying to find different ways to tell a story to an audience. What I am discovering, as I experiment with AI, is that the opportunities for different ways to tell a story are becoming so much more exciting.

So, today I have been playing with CatGPT’s image creator. I have taken a couple of Twitter length stories and asked ChatGPT to create a graphic comic page telling the story. I have been impressed. My prompt in both these examples was simply, “Use this story to create a 6 panel comic. Each panel needs to be a different size. (Then I inserted the story).”

Here is what ChatGPT gave me. I have included the story so that you can see what ChatGPT had to work with.

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Story 1

They renamed the detention wing Saturn, because it devours time. No clocks, no windows. You enter on a Monday and emerge older, quieter, grateful for rules. Management calls it character building. We call it surviving long enough to forget why we were sent there.

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Story 2

Poetry is now a medical condition. Those who arrange words strangely are treated gently, sedated softly, corrected thoroughly. I keep a poem hidden in my mouth, repeating it silently so it doesn’t forget me first.

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What Do You Think?

This is something I want to experiment more with. Maybe next time have some dialogue in the story and see how ChatGPT copes with speech bubbles.

I’d love to know what you make of all this. Why not drop your thoughts into the comments below?