love-modeling
Original: love-modeling on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: Troniac, do you REALLY feel love, or are you using a statistical model using training data of people tagged as being in love?
Panel 2:
Robot (Troniac): Not even that. You're so narcissistic I can just scan your speech for positive self-assessment, repeat it back at you, and have you perceive it as affection.
Panel 3:
Man (frowning): I'm not that simple-minded.
Panel 4:
Robot (Troniac): You've never been simple-minded. Other people are sheep.
Man: It's like you just GET me.
Votey:
Man (off-panel, speech bubble pointing toward the robot): It's so sad your profound wisdom has remained confined to Facebook.
Man: Troniac, do you REALLY feel love, or are you using a statistical model using training data of people tagged as being in love?
Panel 2:
Robot (Troniac): Not even that. You're so narcissistic I can just scan your speech for positive self-assessment, repeat it back at you, and have you perceive it as affection.
Panel 3:
Man (frowning): I'm not that simple-minded.
Panel 4:
Robot (Troniac): You've never been simple-minded. Other people are sheep.
Man: It's like you just GET me.
Votey:
Man (off-panel, speech bubble pointing toward the robot): It's so sad your profound wisdom has remained confined to Facebook.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A man talks with a robot named Troniac (a tall rounded machine with a single red button). Panel 1: the man asks, "Troniac, do you REALLY feel love, or are you using a statistical model using training data of people tagged as being in love?" Panel 2: the robot replies, "Not even that. You're so narcissistic I can just scan your speech for positive self-assessment, repeat it back at you, and have you perceive it as affection." Panel 3: the man frowns and insists, "I'm not that simple-minded." Panel 4: the robot says, "You've never been simple-minded. Other people are sheep," and the now-content man replies, "It's like you just GET me" — proving the robot's point. Votey: a single panel showing the robot, with the man's off-panel speech bubble saying, "It's so sad your profound wisdom has remained confined to Facebook."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.