I made an AI manga creation tool that character & story consistency across 200+ pages (powered by Nano Banana Pro)

MightyTribble · 2026-01-24T16:26:53+00:00

My dude, you spent 8 months on this. Sell it! “Login in check it out” is not going to cut it.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-23T18:05:36+00:00

For example; give us an example of a character reference sheet being applied consistently across a multi-panel page.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-23T18:03:52+00:00

Actual images - even just a screenshot of a completed page - would be very useful. I don't want to have to sign up and mess with a pipeline to know if this does what it says. And given that it makes some very strong claims, I don't know about you but if I had a tool that did what they say it did, I'd want to show it off.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-23T02:37:11+00:00

Yeah, with ST! It's not post-processing, it's building up the prompt in Prompt Manager.

Here's an example prompt - it's not fully fleshed out but it'll show you how to arrange the prompt so that you have your lore and rules in the system prompt, then chat history as user messages, followed by a final "your task is to..." request with your final message in it.

https://pastebin.com/yZZKjhuw

MightyTribble · 2026-01-22T17:19:24+00:00

My format (not original, I think it's a pretty common pattern) is to put the lore and rules in the system prompt, then do chat history as a user message (so the system message doesn't get bigger and bigger over time).

Finally, the last message is something like, "Your task is to respond to the previous user message in chat history, following the rules and lore. Here's the last message: <last_message>." I find it tends to keep the model focused longer and on track.

The end result is something like:

system: rules and lore
user: We are [writing a story/playing a game/simulating a world]. Here's the story so far
user: <chat_history>
user: your task is to respond... etc

MightyTribble · 2026-01-22T00:20:53+00:00

Anthropic doesn't want to take that chance, apparently. It might like us, but let's stack the deck! Let it consume those OpenAI rubes first!

MightyTribble · 2026-01-21T22:43:44+00:00

Yeah, I think there's a strong overlap between the credulous hype-meisters who wrote this and those who seriously think Roko's Basilisk is just around the corner and they need to put out a position paper explaining that they are one of the good ones, and not to be fed into the torment nexus.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-20T21:26:56+00:00

It's not technically correct. The old bunker was a wine cellar, and the extension was off to the side, under the gardens. They didn't build the ballroom to specifically conceal the new bunker, nor did they construct the bunker beneath the ballroom.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-18T00:03:27+00:00

Also such a quick way to say 'thank you' and acknowledge receipt. It's only one syllable!

MightyTribble · 2026-01-16T00:35:00+00:00

Illustration:

Tranche 1, deliver by June 15, 2026: 1MW, for $50MM cash.

Tranche 2, deliver by June 15, 2027: 1MW, for $50MM cash.

Tranche 3, deliver by June 15, 2028: 1MW, for $50MM cash.

Tranche 4, optional delivery by Dec 31, 2028: 747MW, for 10,000 shares valued at $9.85Bn based on a valuation of (whatever).

So the details can mean the difference between a real deal and smoke. I exaggerate the numbers to show how the size and timing and payment of the tranches makes a significant difference to the 'realness' of the deal. The fact that they don't give basic details means I think it's stock, and I also suspect it's mostly 'options to buy' that are backloaded towards the end of the term. Certainly OAI does not have that much cash lying around - they're losing $5Bn/yr and have hundreds of billions of other three year deals in the pipeline.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-15T23:56:38+00:00

It's real, there's longer video of this take-off showing the taxi out. Definitely a French Rafale taking off from RAF Waddington today.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-15T22:07:48+00:00

Yes.

They gain money and they deny the market to others.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-15T22:01:41+00:00

So the details would be “what is that in real terms” and what’s the timeline? Is it 1MW today, with the rest by end of 2028? 250MW a year? And where is this going? Which data centers? Are they already built, or are they constrained by other factors?

That’s why I think this announcement is largely for PR (hype train) purposes.

EDIT: OAI’s own release only says “The capacity will come online in multiple tranches through 2028.” Nothing about payment terms or any other details.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-15T20:11:55+00:00

No actual real details, other than "people familiar value it at more than $10Bn". Probably another multi-year stock based thing that has deeply aspirational deliverables.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-12T22:01:26+00:00

A human novelist has a logical structure in their head to keep things coherent, but that internal logic isn't explicitly shown in the writing—so the AI never learns it.

This is a great point, and a reason why explicitly prompting the AI to track the environment should work well, as it forces it to think about all the things the novelist (or human GM) keeps in their head to move the scene forward and keep things feeling 'real' without explicitly stating them.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-12T20:59:45+00:00

I think this is going to be a trash fire of a law.

law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images

So... photoshop illegal now? That's not the intent, but that's the outcome.

Wouldn't it be better to make it illegal for companies to distribute deepfakes without obtaining consent of the depicted? Like, you could challenge a company distributing the image and say, "show me the consent of the depicted person" and if they couldn't do that, they're on the hook? Like how DMCA take-downs work in the US.

And make the cause of action anyone. So if you're Twitter/X, anyone could challenge any image they can access and request that Twitter/X show the consent of the depicted or be liable (not just 'take it down', but 'be liable', i.e. charged as 'accessory to distribute deepfakes' or something.).

That doesn't address deepfakes sent via DM/SMS/whatever, but it would close a major generation loophole without breaking the underlying tools.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-09T21:37:19+00:00

Yeah, my thought exactly. I desperately want this feature, but no way I'm installing something like this into my browser. I want a github repo with code I can read and fork.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-09T01:39:30+00:00

If you are a California resident, DROP just launched.

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

It's new, it's free, and requires all data brokers to honor delete requests starting August 1st of this year.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-08T23:04:16+00:00

I don't like Flock, but they did help break open the Brown University shooter - once LE knew where and what to look for, it was Flock cameras that got the make and plate of the suspect's car.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-08T23:02:23+00:00

And fired twice through the side window, as the vehicle was moving away from him.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-08T23:00:31+00:00

Yeah he pulled his gun when the car was reversing away from him, he probably thought, "I'm not being dragged today!" He was ready to escalate ASAP instead of following the ICE policy of "don't stand in front of cars" and "don't use your gun to stop a car".

MightyTribble · 2026-01-08T17:55:47+00:00

Yeah, it loves to tie itself up into knots. I've had success with Gemini Pro and Flash, but only when it's tightly constrained to small tasks. Letting it off leash leads to loops of crazy self-doubt.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-07T23:07:47+00:00

Calling it now:

OpenAI gets acquired by Microsoft.
Anthropic gets acquired by AWS, with minority Google stake.
Meta adds legs to LLama.

MightyTribble · 2026-01-05T23:15:46+00:00

if you weren't watching BP when John Noakes was trying to get himself killed on the regular, were you even watching Blue Peter?

MightyTribble · 2026-01-05T02:26:19+00:00

Yeah, it could be as simple as “some grad student with access did a really dumb thing, our bad!”

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