ai-5
Original: ai-5 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A person (off-panel, speaking from the left) gestures at a glowing egg-like AI device on a desk.
Person: DAMMIT! THIS AI SYSTEM IS CRAP!
Panel 2:
A tiny humanoid figure stands beside a larger glowing egg-shaped AI unit.
Person: IT KEEPS INCORRECTLY CLASSIFYING OPINIONS AS FACTS, LUST AS LOVE... HELL IT THINKS THINGS THAT RHYME ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TRUE!
Panel 3:
A man with red/orange hair sits at the desk near a glowing egg device.
Person: WHAT KIND OF TRAINING DATA DID IT HAVE?
Second speaker (pink speech bubble): MOSTLY INTERNET. TONS AND TONS OF INTERNET.
Panel 4:
The red-haired man and the small figure look at the glowing egg AI device, which now displays a small page/screen.
Person: JESUS, BUT... WAIT, THERE'S NO DATA HERE. JUST METADATA.
Second speaker (pink speech bubble): IT ONLY READS HEADLINES.
Votey:
A hand-drawn black-and-white panel showing a tall rounded figure (the AI unit) with a single eye.
Speaker: YOU CAN ACTUALLY CORRUPT MOST OF ITS DATA JUST BY MAKING IT SCARED.
A person (off-panel, speaking from the left) gestures at a glowing egg-like AI device on a desk.
Person: DAMMIT! THIS AI SYSTEM IS CRAP!
Panel 2:
A tiny humanoid figure stands beside a larger glowing egg-shaped AI unit.
Person: IT KEEPS INCORRECTLY CLASSIFYING OPINIONS AS FACTS, LUST AS LOVE... HELL IT THINKS THINGS THAT RHYME ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TRUE!
Panel 3:
A man with red/orange hair sits at the desk near a glowing egg device.
Person: WHAT KIND OF TRAINING DATA DID IT HAVE?
Second speaker (pink speech bubble): MOSTLY INTERNET. TONS AND TONS OF INTERNET.
Panel 4:
The red-haired man and the small figure look at the glowing egg AI device, which now displays a small page/screen.
Person: JESUS, BUT... WAIT, THERE'S NO DATA HERE. JUST METADATA.
Second speaker (pink speech bubble): IT ONLY READS HEADLINES.
Votey:
A hand-drawn black-and-white panel showing a tall rounded figure (the AI unit) with a single eye.
Speaker: YOU CAN ACTUALLY CORRUPT MOST OF ITS DATA JUST BY MAKING IT SCARED.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about a faulty AI. Panel 1: a desk holds a glowing yellow egg-shaped AI device; an off-panel person shouts, "Dammit! This AI system is crap!" Panel 2: a tiny human figure stands beside a larger glowing egg AI as the person complains, "It keeps incorrectly classifying opinions as facts, lust as love... Hell it thinks things that rhyme are more likely to be true!" Panel 3: a red-haired man at the desk asks, "What kind of training data did it have?" and is answered, "Mostly internet. Tons and tons of internet." Panel 4: the man and small figure look at the egg device, which now shows a small page; he says, "Jesus, but... wait, there's no data here. Just metadata," and the reply is, "It only reads headlines." Votey (a rough black-and-white panel showing a tall rounded one-eyed AI unit): "You can actually corrupt most of its data just by making it scared."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.