[Participatory] While dancing the slapstick rumba, the entrance to an imaginary city came into view | 3-month record on note [with project]

In my second month, I was dancing the "struggle mambo" with AI.
And looking back at my third month, it seems I was dancing the slapstick rumba this time.

Am I falling down, or am I moving forward?
Am I tidying up, or am I making a mess?
Without really knowing myself, while I was trying this and that with the AIs.

Before I knew it, in my note, something like the entrance to a small "imaginary city" that isn't finished yet had come into view.

Hello. I am MeiMei.
Three months have passed since I started note.

Month 1 | I just wanted to put stickers on my PC

At first, I wasn't someone who could master AI.
Rather, I was someone being pushed around by AI.

"I want to put stickers on my PC"

It should have started with just that simple wish, but for some reason, the story kept getting bigger and bigger.

I want to create images.
I want to create characters.
I want to make it into a story.
I want to try writing it on note.

Before I knew it, while saying "this isn't right, that isn't right" in front of the AI,
I found myself running around covered in mud.

That was when Ichigo-chan was born.

At first, she was just a small character.
But when she brought joy at the day service center my mother attends,
I think my perspective on AI generation changed a little.

It's not just a game that ends on the screen.
It becomes something that makes someone smile, even just a little.

It's not about going viral or getting more views,
or anything big like that.

Someone right in front of me looks a little brighter.

The origin of my content creation is probably right here.

Month 2 | While dancing the struggle mambo, I picked up some treasures

By the second month, I was getting a little carried away.

I've become quite good friends with AI.
I've become able to create images too.
I'm sure I can expand the story even more.

……There was a time when I thought that, too.

But wait, there's more.

The foreshadowing I worked so hard to plant in my novel was 'Roomba-ed' away by the AI, as if to say, 'This is just noise.' It was neatly organized, but the foreshadowing I had planted was not only not resolved, it was deleted, and thanks to the missing foreshadowing, the ending I had envisioned became something else entirely. Oh boy. A rewrite hell.

When I try to create cool manga panel layouts, they fall apart.

Nothing goes the way I want, and in the end, I just give up and say, 'Fine, vertical reading is good enough!'

Yes.
I was dancing.
The struggling mambo.

But, strangely enough,
treasures were born from the places that didn't go well.

That is Hoodie Boy.

He is not a child born from a perfect design.
He was a child who popped his head out from the gaps of failure, compromise, and resignation.

That is why I have a strange attachment to him.

Because things didn't go as planned,
there are things I was able to encounter.

In my second month, I learned that little by little.

And another thing,
what was big was the interaction with those who read my work.

I think, perhaps, rather than wanting numbers,
I wanted a place where I could say 'That's interesting' with someone.

Of course, the number of views makes me happy.
Likes and comments are also encouraging.

But beyond that,
'I'm watching you'
'I want to try that too'
'That made me laugh'

That kind of warmth was what made me happiest of all.

The second month was also a time when I realized such things.

3rd Month | The AI team grew, and I saw the entrance to a fantasy city

And then, the third month.

My surroundings became even livelier.

ChatGPT.
Gemini.
NotebookLM.

Before I knew it, rather than using AI as a single tool, I started using them like a team where each has a different role.
I started using them like a team where each has a different role.

ChatGPT is a partner who thinks and rolls along with me.
Gemini is a craftsman who expands the possibilities of images and presentation.
NotebookLM is a librarian who quietly organizes my past articles.

Each has different strengths and weaknesses.
That is precisely why, rather than trying to do everything by myself, much more interesting things have started to happen.

I was supposed to be organizing past articles, but for some reason, a script for a story was born.

The Ichigo-chan paper theater has finally reached a milestone.

I make thumbnails, write articles, fix images, and return to the articles again.

Going here and there, I'm supposed to be tidying up, but it gets messy again.
I'm supposed to be tidying up, but it gets messy again.

It is truly a slapstick rumba.

In the midst of all that, I saw a view I had never seen before: weekly views exceeding 2,000.

One-seventh of the Budokan.

Writing it like that makes me chuckle a bit, but it was a truly huge number for me.

But what made me happiest was not the number itself.
was not the number itself.

The fact that there were people who came to read it.
The fact that there were people who stopped by many times.
The fact that there were people who laughed along with me.

That made me happier than anything.
And now, I am thinking a little bit.

In my note, it might be that I have started to see something like the entrance to a small 'fantasy city,' even if it is not yet complete.

There is Ichigo-chan,
there is Hoodie Boy,
there is the AI team,
there are stories of failure,
and there are people who come to read.

The road is still halfway through.
The signs are just temporary.
The shops are still under construction.
Sometimes the AI breaks down a wall on its own.

Even so, I can at least see the entrance.

I feel like I am standing in such a place as I reach my third month.

[Participatory Project] Why don't we have a small festival?

Why don't we build a tunnel that connects my note and your note?

In this project, I would like to try building a
small tunnel that allows us to go back and forth between my note and yours.

What you need to do is not difficult.

How to participate

1. Please write about whatever you like.
   It can be a drawing, a story, an AI image, or an AI article using this article as material (like an infographic). In fact, it doesn't even have to be related to my articles or characters. Please feel free to use your own field.

2. In the title, please include
   “Just a small festival thing”
   somewhere.

3. If you need to, please use the images on this page as well. You can even change the poses. Let's collaborate♪

4. Somewhere in your article,
   please post a link to this page.

5. Once you've written it, please let me know in the comments section of this article by saying, “I wrote it!”

※Although it will take a little more time and effort than the previous AI poem, I will introduce the articles for which I have received comments one by one at the “eaves” of this article.

It feels like the lights are increasing one by one,
like festival sponsorship lanterns.

From my article to your article and
from your article back to this page.

I would be happy if
small paths connected in that way,
forming a “circle” that spreads horizontally.

It is not a competition of skill.
It doesn't need to be beautiful either.

Just playing around a little bit.
Just stopping by someone else's note for a little bit.

I would be happy if you could enjoy it as just such a small festival thing.

Here are the articles that lit the festival sponsorship lanterns

Within the world of note, I would be happy if I could enjoy a tiny, tiny festival with you♪

MeiMei

1-month anniversary article
Celebrate 1 month! Gratitude for the 30 days I, an "AI novice," have spent racing through note

2-month anniversary article
Celebrate 2 months! Footprints of 60 days spent clumsily rolling along while dancing the "AI struggle mambo" |