Can an AI Draw for The New Yorker?
I couldn’t find a real cartoonist so I asked an artificial one
For the longest time I’ve had a lot of captions but no cartoons. What I mean to say is that I have what I think are really pretty funny punchlines that would make equally funny cartoons that The New Yorker would surely publish. All I need is someone to draw the cartoon because, to be honest, my art has never progressed beyond stick figures.
Now here’s a complicating matter. Technically I do have cartoonists. Several friends who can actually draw. I even have one cartoonist friend who has sold more than one cartoon to The New Yorker. But whenever I ask these cartoonist friends to illustrate my really funny captions they never seem to follow through. Actually they never get around to answering my emails.
Which was why for the first time in my life I decided to knowingly turn to Artificial Intelligence.
Now, a lot has been written about how AI’s can take a command like “Turn this mountain into something Monet would paint” or “Do a swan like Picasso would do it.” But I’ve yet to read an account of someone feeding in a funny caption to an AI and having the AI run with it. So let’s give it a try.
Here’s the set up of my cartoon:
