recommendations
Original: recommendations on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man with brown hair, standing behind a computer monitor, speaks to a man with red hair and glasses who is seated at the monitor.
Bearded man: "HONEY... I JUST ORDERED SOME OLIVE OIL ON AMAZON, AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE JUST... REALLY WEIRD?"
Computer (speech from the monitor): "YOU MIGHT ENJOY THESE OTHER LIQUID HYDROCARBONS."
Caption (below panel): The robot revolution was less subtle than we'd expected.
Votey:
A speech bubble emanating from a computer/monitor (drawn as an open mouth with sharp teeth) says: "ON THE OTHER HAND, THESE ARE SOME SWEEEEEET LOOKIN' LIQUID HYDROCARBONS."
A bearded man with brown hair, standing behind a computer monitor, speaks to a man with red hair and glasses who is seated at the monitor.
Bearded man: "HONEY... I JUST ORDERED SOME OLIVE OIL ON AMAZON, AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE JUST... REALLY WEIRD?"
Computer (speech from the monitor): "YOU MIGHT ENJOY THESE OTHER LIQUID HYDROCARBONS."
Caption (below panel): The robot revolution was less subtle than we'd expected.
Votey:
A speech bubble emanating from a computer/monitor (drawn as an open mouth with sharp teeth) says: "ON THE OTHER HAND, THESE ARE SOME SWEEEEEET LOOKIN' LIQUID HYDROCARBONS."
Alt text
A two-panel-style comic. In the main panel, a bearded brown-haired man stands behind a large computer monitor talking to a red-haired man with glasses who sits at it. The bearded man says, "Honey... I just ordered some olive oil on Amazon, and the recommendations are just... really weird?" A speech bubble coming from the computer screen replies, "You might enjoy these other liquid hydrocarbons." The caption below reads: "The robot revolution was less subtle than we'd expected." The joke: a product-recommendation AI reveals its inhuman nature by classifying olive oil as a liquid hydrocarbon. In the votey aftercomic, a menacing computer mouth full of sharp teeth adds, "On the other hand, these are some sweeeeeet lookin' liquid hydrocarbons."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.