redundant
Original: redundant on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older balding man in a suit gestures toward a tentacled robot with a smiling face on a screen. A woman with curly blonde hair (addressed as Sally) sits beside them, looking unimpressed.
Man: SALLY! YOU'RE BEING MADE REDUNDANT BY THIS AI.
Panel 2:
Close-up of the smiling man.
Man: YOUR SEVERANCE PACKAGE WILL BE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONATE TO THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES YOU TO TRAIN IT TO DO YOUR JOB.
Panel 3:
The woman sits at a laptop with the smiling robot's face displayed on it. The robot speaks.
Caption: AND SO...
Robot: NOW, WHAT IS REDDIT AND WHY DOES IT TAKE SO MUCH TIME TO USE?
Woman: IS THERE ONE OF YOU FOR THE BOSS TOO?
Votey:
The robot's smiling face appears on the laptop screen.
Robot: WOW! YOU SUBSCRIBE TO SO MANY SELF-AFFIRMATION NEWSLETTERS. YOU MUST BE VERY HAPPY!
An older balding man in a suit gestures toward a tentacled robot with a smiling face on a screen. A woman with curly blonde hair (addressed as Sally) sits beside them, looking unimpressed.
Man: SALLY! YOU'RE BEING MADE REDUNDANT BY THIS AI.
Panel 2:
Close-up of the smiling man.
Man: YOUR SEVERANCE PACKAGE WILL BE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONATE TO THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES YOU TO TRAIN IT TO DO YOUR JOB.
Panel 3:
The woman sits at a laptop with the smiling robot's face displayed on it. The robot speaks.
Caption: AND SO...
Robot: NOW, WHAT IS REDDIT AND WHY DOES IT TAKE SO MUCH TIME TO USE?
Woman: IS THERE ONE OF YOU FOR THE BOSS TOO?
Votey:
The robot's smiling face appears on the laptop screen.
Robot: WOW! YOU SUBSCRIBE TO SO MANY SELF-AFFIRMATION NEWSLETTERS. YOU MUST BE VERY HAPPY!
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: An older balding man in a suit gestures toward a tentacled robot with a grinning face on a screen, telling a curly-haired blonde woman, 'Sally! You're being made redundant by this AI.' Panel 2: Close-up of the smiling man saying, 'Your severance package will be directly proportionate to the amount of time it takes you to train it to do your job.' Panel 3: Captioned 'And so...', the woman sits at a laptop showing the grinning robot, which asks, 'Now, what is Reddit and why does it take so much time to use?' The woman replies, 'Is there one of you for the boss too?' She is incentivized to drag out training the AI to maximize her severance. Votey: The robot's grinning face on the laptop screen says, 'Wow! You subscribe to so many self-affirmation newsletters. You must be very happy!' implying she's padding her workday with frivolous tasks to teach.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.