villainy-2
Original: villainy-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A blue-beaked, masked supervillain (flame-like crest): "Hahaha! I've done it! Thanks to advanced AI, I can generate a perfect deepfake of any public figure doing anything."
Panel 2:
A bald man (the henchman/colleague): "Why waste all that computing power? Just take an out of context still of the politician you don't like and write whatever claim you want on it."
Panel 3:
The blue-beaked villain, looking at a tablet the bald man holds: "God, this is full of compression artifacts. Some of these percents add up to more than 100."
Panel 4:
The bald man: "Using neural networks to fool the human mind is like using a bazooka to fight a hamster."
The villain (now as a silhouette, standing with the bald man): "Villainy is so unrewarding these days."
Votey:
The blue-beaked villain, looking troubled: "Wait, was that image real or fake?"
A blue-beaked, masked supervillain (flame-like crest): "Hahaha! I've done it! Thanks to advanced AI, I can generate a perfect deepfake of any public figure doing anything."
Panel 2:
A bald man (the henchman/colleague): "Why waste all that computing power? Just take an out of context still of the politician you don't like and write whatever claim you want on it."
Panel 3:
The blue-beaked villain, looking at a tablet the bald man holds: "God, this is full of compression artifacts. Some of these percents add up to more than 100."
Panel 4:
The bald man: "Using neural networks to fool the human mind is like using a bazooka to fight a hamster."
The villain (now as a silhouette, standing with the bald man): "Villainy is so unrewarding these days."
Votey:
The blue-beaked villain, looking troubled: "Wait, was that image real or fake?"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first panel, a masked supervillain with a blue beak and a flame-like crest gleefully announces that thanks to advanced AI he can generate a perfect deepfake of any public figure doing anything. In the second panel, a bald colleague deflates him, asking why waste all that computing power when you could just take an out-of-context still of a politician you dislike and write whatever claim you want on it. In the third panel the villain, peering at a tablet, complains that it is full of compression artifacts and that some of the percentages add up to more than 100. In the fourth panel the bald man concludes that using neural networks to fool the human mind is like using a bazooka to fight a hamster, while the two stand as silhouettes and the villain laments that villainy is so unrewarding these days. Votey panel: a close-up of the blue-beaked villain looking uneasy as he asks, "Wait, was that image real or fake?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.