D Language Foundation July 2025 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Mindy (0xEAB)]

On Sunday, 11 January 2026 at 14:56:07 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> ### AI interlude
>
> As we were about to close, Walter told us he’d tried very hard 
> to get an AI to draw a D-man. He'd failed miserably no matter 
> how he crafted the prompt. He kept getting something that 
> looked like Superman with a D on his chest.
>
> Carsten offered to ask someone at his company who was "super 
> good at that" to see if they could come up with a prompt that 
> worked. I mentioned that some of the services let you upload a 
> reference image. Walter said he’d tried that, too. He'd tried 
> everything. All these people were saying AI was going to take 
> over everything, and he hadn't been successful with getting it 
> to do what he wanted.
>
> […]
>
> Walter said
> […] He was just annoyed that he couldn't get it to generate a 
> D-man.
>
> He said we had a shortage of D-man cartoons. He had a directory 
> with a collection of all the ones he'd seen. For him to draw 
> one was a long, complicated process because he had no talent 
> for it. He would have to spend a lot of time with the image 
> editor to make it look presentable. Being able to automate it 
> would be wonderful. Something silly like D-man jumping rope or 
> something. If anyone could figure out how to do it, he asked 
> that they send him the prompt.

I suppose one has to approach generative AI from a different 
perspective to make sense of it:
It's not a tool to be used by an artist but instead it's a 
(soulless) drawing robot commissioned by patron (= the user).

So, here me out. I have two ideas going forward here:

Why not open thread for collecting comic ideas that artists (or 
patrons with better prompting voodoo) can turn into art?

If composing comics from templates is doable, we could also 
create a collection of D-Man template resources and such to be 
used in comics and similar.

(While I wouldn't advocate for it, generative AI should prolly do 
a good job rendering background scenery or single sprites for 
such comics.)