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Why should A.I. have all the fun?

I like the idea of receiving prompts and then coming up with a drawing, spontaneously. It's a good creative exercise for me and it's also fun. Instead of letting A.I. have all the fun in that area, I asked my 10yr old daughter, Ollie, to feed me some prompts bit by bit and I'd create a comic, panel by panel. I would be the Real Intelligence (R.I.) she'd use to generate a 6-panel comic. We were sitting together on a 30min bus ride, on the way to her art class downtown on a weekend. 1. I asked her for a place. Park. A person or animal. Fox. An expression. Grin. And I drew a quick sketch in red pencil on paper. Just the pictures. No dialogue. 2. I said, I wanted to do a close-up now. Give me an expression. Grin. 3. I said the fox goes to a new place. Give me a place. City. 4. Give me a new character. Girl. Describe her. Headphones, long hair. Expression. Grin. 5. I now want a close-up. Give me an expression. Crying. 6. They move to a new place. Give me a place. Farm. While...

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