🤣 The day I laughed out loud at my own 4-panel comic - A delusion of a future where AI becomes too convenient -
☀️ Introduction | This author is funny
On the commuter train.
I was idly scrolling through social media on my phone.
What appeared in my recommendations was a 4-panel comic.
It was a slightly surreal piece depicting the daily life of an office worker.
I couldn't help but burst out laughing at the final panel.
"This author is funny."
When I casually looked at the author's name,
Kazuro
...
"Huh?"
"Me?"
I don't remember drawing it.
But the author was definitely me.
"What does this mean?"
Today, I'm sharing a delusion about such a future.
🚀 AI will not just 'write', but 'nurture'
Even now, AI can,
write text for us
summarize things for us
Translating for me
Coming up with titles for me
We have reached the point where it can do all that.
But, in the near future, we might see a screen like this.
✅ Create note version
✅ Create X thread
✅ Create Instagram carousel
✅ Create YouTube script
✅ Create Podcast script
✅ Create English version
✅ Create version for children
✅ Create 4-panel comic
✅ Create short video
As usual, I say,
"Check all."
And then,
"Publish."
That is all it takes.
📦 Dozens of works are born from a single idea
In the past,
If you wrote one article,
you would end up with one finished work.
But the future is different.
A single idea,
will transform into all kinds of media.
It will become text,
it will become video,
it will become audio,
it will become a comic,
it will become a quiz,
it will become a short video,
evolving into the expression best suited for that medium.
Just like dozens of branches growing from a single tree.
😅 When things get too convenient, people stop checking
Something interesting happens here.
When things become too convenient,
people stop checking everything.
Take photos, for example.
Even if you take 100 pictures on your smartphone,
few people look back at all of them, right?
Save it to the cloud,
"Well, I'll look at it later."
That "later" usually never comes.
I'm sure content is the same way.
"Note version, published."
"YouTube version, published."
"Manga version, published."
"English version, published."
"Everything, published."
Click, click, click.
Done.
😂 A few days later, I encounter my own work
And a few days later.
While commuting.
A 4-panel comic flows into my recommendations.
I laugh before I know it.
"This person has a great sense of humor."
I check the author.
Kazuro
"......Me?"
I open my history.
That's right.
From a note article I wrote a week ago,
AI had created a 4-panel comic.
I had just pressed the publish button,
and hadn't read the content.
"Ah, I see."
I couldn't help but laugh.
Even though it was a comic I had drawn myself,
I was enjoying it as a reader for the first time.
🌱 Content is not a "finished product" but a "seed"
Perhaps in the future,
articles might no longer be finished products.
An article is a "seed."
From there,
tailored to readers and media,
many works will grow.
Videos too,
comics too,
and audio too.
They are brothers born from the same seed.
Creators will not be making individual works,
but becoming people who nurture the 'seed'.
Perhaps such an era is coming.
🤔 Creative work will also change
Right now,
'What to write'
is the creator's job.
But in the future,
'How far to expand it'
'In what form to deliver it'
'Who to nurture it for'
Those kinds of choices might become more important.
AI draws.
AI edits.
AI turns it into video.
Humans generate the initial idea,
and finally decide, 'Let's go with this.'
That is the division of roles.
🌈 Conclusion | The reader of the future might be yourself
In the past,
the moment I finished writing an article was the goal.
But the future is different.
The moment I post it is the start.
From there, AI will,
nurture it into various media.
And the author,
having become too accustomed to the convenience,
doesn't remember everything they published.
One day, I laugh at a 4-panel comic that appeared in my recommendations.
"This author is funny."
I look at the author's name.
Kazuro
"Oh... I see."
Even though it was a work I created,
I was enjoying it for the first time as a reader.
If such a future comes,
AI might not be a "tool for writing text," but rather,
the best editor to nurture ideas instead.
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