deepfake
Original: deepfake on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with red hair (standing): OH MY GOD, STEVE, ARE YOU DOING A DEEPFAKE OF YOUR EX-WIFE? THAT IS NOT COOL!
Panel 2:
The woman leans over the seated man (Steve) to look at his computer screen.
The woman: WAIT... THIS ISN'T A SEXY IMAGE. IT'S JUST SUSAN FULLY CLOTHED.
Panel 3:
Close-up of the computer screen showing a smiling man's face with a lightning-bolt/glitch effect beside it.
Screen (Steve's deepfake, in Susan's voice): STEVE, I STILL LOVE YOU.
Panel 4:
The woman: THIS IS THE SADDEST THING CONCEIVABLE.
Steve (seated): DOESN'T EVERYBODY DO THIS?
Votey:
Steve: YES STEVE, EVERYONE.
(The panel shows a hand-drawn sketch: a person's face/hair with simple line-art doodles and a small inset of a smiling face, illustrating the comforting deepfake fantasy.)
A woman with red hair (standing): OH MY GOD, STEVE, ARE YOU DOING A DEEPFAKE OF YOUR EX-WIFE? THAT IS NOT COOL!
Panel 2:
The woman leans over the seated man (Steve) to look at his computer screen.
The woman: WAIT... THIS ISN'T A SEXY IMAGE. IT'S JUST SUSAN FULLY CLOTHED.
Panel 3:
Close-up of the computer screen showing a smiling man's face with a lightning-bolt/glitch effect beside it.
Screen (Steve's deepfake, in Susan's voice): STEVE, I STILL LOVE YOU.
Panel 4:
The woman: THIS IS THE SADDEST THING CONCEIVABLE.
Steve (seated): DOESN'T EVERYBODY DO THIS?
Votey:
Steve: YES STEVE, EVERYONE.
(The panel shows a hand-drawn sketch: a person's face/hair with simple line-art doodles and a small inset of a smiling face, illustrating the comforting deepfake fantasy.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a red-haired woman stands behind a seated man and exclaims, "Oh my god, Steve, are you doing a deepfake of your ex-wife? That is not cool!" Panel 2: she leans over to look at his computer screen and says, "Wait... this isn't a sexy image. It's just Susan fully clothed." Panel 3: a close-up of the screen shows a smiling man's face with a glitch/lightning effect, and a generated voice says, "Steve, I still love you." Panel 4: the woman flatly says, "This is the saddest thing conceivable," and Steve replies, "Doesn't everybody do this?" The joke: instead of using a deepfake for something sexual, Steve made one of his ex-wife simply saying she still loves him. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn sketch of a face with doodled hair and a small smiling inset, captioned with Steve saying "Yes Steve, everyone." reinforcing his sad reassurance that everyone does this.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.