ai-art-2
Original: ai-art-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
First man: Do you think image generation is a threat for the arts?
Second man (reclining): Nah.
Panel 2:
First man: But it's getting weird. There are people who watch an artist livedraw, then partway through, they use a screengrab to generate the rest of the painting and release it early through their own channels.
Panel 3:
Second man: That's not a problem with AI. It's a problem with people. As far as it is, just an arrangement of matter that flows forth into endless beauty, it's you, human inside, human-made economic structures, that ruin everything.
Panel 4:
First man: Please stop trying to recruit me for your human extermination project!
Second man: I think once you get started you'll really get into it.
Votey:
First man (off-panel): You're just gonna never murder anyone and insist you're into murder?
(Second man reclines on the couch, silent.)
First man: Do you think image generation is a threat for the arts?
Second man (reclining): Nah.
Panel 2:
First man: But it's getting weird. There are people who watch an artist livedraw, then partway through, they use a screengrab to generate the rest of the painting and release it early through their own channels.
Panel 3:
Second man: That's not a problem with AI. It's a problem with people. As far as it is, just an arrangement of matter that flows forth into endless beauty, it's you, human inside, human-made economic structures, that ruin everything.
Panel 4:
First man: Please stop trying to recruit me for your human extermination project!
Second man: I think once you get started you'll really get into it.
Votey:
First man (off-panel): You're just gonna never murder anyone and insist you're into murder?
(Second man reclines on the couch, silent.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Two men talk on a couch; one sits upright, the other reclines lazily. Panel 1: the upright man asks if image generation is a threat for the arts; the reclining man says 'Nah.' Panel 2: the upright man says it's getting weird, that some people watch an artist livedraw, then use a screengrab partway through to AI-generate the rest and release it early through their own channels. Panel 3: the reclining man launches into a grandiose speech: that's not a problem with AI, it's a problem with people; AI is just an arrangement of matter flowing forth into endless beauty, and it's humans inside human-made economic structures who ruin everything. Panel 4: the upright man pleads, 'Please stop trying to recruit me for your human extermination project!' and the reclining man replies, 'I think once you get started you'll really get into it.' Votey aftercomic: the upright man (off-panel) asks, 'You're just gonna never murder anyone and insist you're into murder?' while the reclining man lies silently on the couch.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.