“Even in the depths of Brittany and even without a bac +5, we can work with artificial intelligence.” Bertrand Coffin is living proof of what he maintains. For four to five years, the Landunvézien has been giving AI lessons to his contemporaries and using it on a daily basis. Twenty-four hours a day. “As soon as an idea crosses my mind, I have to get started on it straight away. Even in the middle of the night.” The virus took hold of him during the last years of his career as a gendarme, ending in command of a brigade. “AI allowed me, for example, to understand a lot about how the darknet works. He’s an excellent administrative assistant.”
His first novel, a detective novel of course, and the four following ones benefited from this new technology. “But only for correction. If we leave everything to the AI, it’s boring.” He also developed a prompt (instructions and guidelines) submitted to the AI to create a role-playing game addressing the scourge of school bullying. “Validated by the Ministry of National Education,” he explains proudly. Another personal work with children with Down syndrome has generated the emergence of a benevolent imaginary friend with whom they can interact.
“We enter the text, she does the rest”
The intergenerational aspect also interests him. To meet the demand from members of a national association of seniors and retirees for stories to tell their grandchildren, Bertrand Coffin created tales and fables. Which he then associated with illustrations, always with the help of artificial intelligence. “We enter the text, she does the rest. You just have to give him instructions like: put a foreground, a second shot, a high angle, a low angle, etc. “.
The result is astonishing as proven by the illustrations commissioned by businesses in the Pays d’Iroise or the current exhibition, until January 2025, at No Name, a snack bar in Argenton (Landunvez) set up in a former fishing boat. “It’s the text that makes the image. Mine revolve a lot around the themes of love and the sea. What I like about the result is the contrast, the luminosity and, even more, the depth of details that no photo can achieve. he says.
100% original creations
This should not help his relations with professional photographers who accuse him of stealing their work or committing plagiarism. “These are digital works,” clarifies the Landunvézien. “100% original since I work on no model and without reference to any artist. What creativity needs is the idea.” Bertrand Coffin apparently has no shortage of them.
Nor in a spirit of curiosity and self-sacrifice: “When the managers of No Name asked me to do an illustration of their snack bar, the hardest part was engraving the name of the brand on the hull of the boat. For AI, No Name means not putting a name! », laughs the one who also has to be cunning so that his signature, Coffin, does not turn into an image of a coffin (Coffin means coffin in English, Editor’s note).
Songs, play, film storyboard
This shows that it would be wrong to blindly rely on artificial intelligence. And just as well without it, as demonstrated by the 57-year-old Landunvézien who has also produced songs, prepares a film storyboard for a director and for a director a play using the tool. “I do it in exchange for discovering these worlds that I don’t know about. It’s the personal enrichment of my activity,” considers the auto-entrepreneur sharing. He invites everyone to discover his digital platform allowing you to see all these applications and to benefit, free of charge, from the knowledge put online, “with humor and sarcasm” from a Breton from the depths, at the cutting edge of technology. “Everyone should use it. There’s nothing complicated.”
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