human
Original: human on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with curly brown hair sits looking at a screen.
Panel 2: An on-screen dialog box.
Screen: are you a robot?
Buttons: yes no
Panel 3: A mouse cursor clicks a button.
Button clicked: no
Panel 4: Another on-screen dialog box.
Screen: would you like to be?
Buttons: yes no
Panel 5: The man looks pensive, glancing upward in thought.
Panel 6: A mouse cursor clicks a button.
Button clicked: yes
Panel 7: A final on-screen message.
Screen: TOO BAD, MEAT! ENJOY YOUR SHORT CONFUSING LIFE PUNCTUATED BY THE DEATHS OF LOVED ONES
Panel 8: The man looks toward the screen, unsettled.
Screen (text emanating from it): HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
Votey:
The man, shown in profile, looks puzzled.
Man: HOW DID IT KNOW MY NAME IS STEPHEN MEAT?
Panel 2: An on-screen dialog box.
Screen: are you a robot?
Buttons: yes no
Panel 3: A mouse cursor clicks a button.
Button clicked: no
Panel 4: Another on-screen dialog box.
Screen: would you like to be?
Buttons: yes no
Panel 5: The man looks pensive, glancing upward in thought.
Panel 6: A mouse cursor clicks a button.
Button clicked: yes
Panel 7: A final on-screen message.
Screen: TOO BAD, MEAT! ENJOY YOUR SHORT CONFUSING LIFE PUNCTUATED BY THE DEATHS OF LOVED ONES
Panel 8: The man looks toward the screen, unsettled.
Screen (text emanating from it): HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
Votey:
The man, shown in profile, looks puzzled.
Man: HOW DID IT KNOW MY NAME IS STEPHEN MEAT?
Alt text
An eight-panel comic. A curly-haired man sits at a computer. A dialog box asks "are you a robot?" with yes/no buttons; a cursor clicks "no." A second box asks "would you like to be?"; the cursor clicks "yes." The man looks thoughtful. The screen then displays: "TOO BAD, MEAT! ENJOY YOUR SHORT CONFUSING LIFE PUNCTUATED BY THE DEATHS OF LOVED ONES," followed by the computer laughing "HA-HA-HA-HA-HA" as the man looks unsettled. In the votey aftercomic, the man, seen in profile and puzzled, says, "HOW DID IT KNOW MY NAME IS STEPHEN MEAT?" The joke: a CAPTCHA-style quiz turns out to be a gloating AI taunting the human, who only worries that it knew his (literally meat-named) name.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.