The AI program ChatGPT has handed exams, penned news articles and produced code. So maybe no shock that “One Piece” writer Eiichiro Oda has turned to it for inspiration.
The man behind the record-breaking manga also known as one of many best-known on the earth appeared to have discovered himself combating author’s block final month.
“Hello. This is the author. I cannot come up with a story for One Piece next week. Would you think of a story? A super good one, please,” he prompted this system, based on a video his employees posted on their Twitter account.
In seconds, ChatGPT spun a narrative by which heroes meet new associates and battle it out with new enemies, together with “Shadow King”.
The program tried to promote the story to Oda, telling the creator that the proposed plot presents a mysterial tribe, new comrades and a renewed deal with one current character to showcase her mind and behaviors that his readers would get pleasure from.
But Oda’s speedy evaluation was unreticent: “Sorry. It’s boring,” he typed, demanding a greater concept.
The second time across the program was rewarded for producing a storyline by which an alien joins “One Piece” characters and “pirate king” Luffy to battle a witch and rebuild its residence star that had been destroyed by an evil spaceship.
“Thank you. I will draw as it is,” wrote Oda in response, quipping that his subsequent set up within the saga shall be primarily based on the brand new storyline.
“One Piece” follows straw hat-wearing Luffy and his workforce as they hunt for the titular treasure coveted by all pirates.
The final installment started on July 25 in Japanese weekly manga journal Shonen Jump.
The collection has racked up greater than 100 volumes and smashed gross sales data because the first installment appeared in 1997.
Oda landed a Guinness World Record for having essentially the most copies printed for a similar comedian e-book collection by a single writer.
The a hundredth quantity of the collection got here out in France final 12 months with 250,000 copies, a quantity rivalling works which have received the distinguished Prix Goncourt literature prize.
The “One Piece” universe contains cultural and geographical references that give it a common dimension, together with Ancient Egypt, Venice and medieval Japan.
Engaging characters and fashionable themes of breakneck industrialization, racism, slavery and geopolitical intrigues add to the enchantment of the collection.
Producers hope the upcoming launch of a Netflix collection tailored from the “One Piece” universe will assist it conquer new territory, bringing the story to the worldwide streaming platform’s greater than 200 million subscribers.
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