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Original: algo on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Boss (a woman seated at a desk): You're fired.
Employee (a man with glasses, standing): You're firing me?!
Panel 2:
Boss: No! That's the amazing thing. I just gave a machine learning algorithm parameters and it told me who to fire!
(The boss holds up a sheet of paper that reads: FIRED)
Panel 3:
Employee: I'm very sorry, but the algorithm has spoken.
Boss: You just gave it my name and told it I should be fired.
Panel 4:
Employee: Whoa, whoa. I gave it a PARAMETER and am abiding by the outcome.
(The employee now holds the sheet of paper, gesturing at the boss.)
Caption (bottom banner): THIS BONUS UPDATE BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUYERS OF BEA WOLF, MY NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF BEOWULF. CLICK TO SEE MORE!
Votey:
A man stands with his back partly turned, having walked away.
Man: Shit. Forgot my hat.
A speech bubble (from off-panel, presumably the algorithm/process): Set up another window!
Boss (a woman seated at a desk): You're fired.
Employee (a man with glasses, standing): You're firing me?!
Panel 2:
Boss: No! That's the amazing thing. I just gave a machine learning algorithm parameters and it told me who to fire!
(The boss holds up a sheet of paper that reads: FIRED)
Panel 3:
Employee: I'm very sorry, but the algorithm has spoken.
Boss: You just gave it my name and told it I should be fired.
Panel 4:
Employee: Whoa, whoa. I gave it a PARAMETER and am abiding by the outcome.
(The employee now holds the sheet of paper, gesturing at the boss.)
Caption (bottom banner): THIS BONUS UPDATE BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUYERS OF BEA WOLF, MY NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF BEOWULF. CLICK TO SEE MORE!
Votey:
A man stands with his back partly turned, having walked away.
Man: Shit. Forgot my hat.
A speech bubble (from off-panel, presumably the algorithm/process): Set up another window!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. In a tense office scene, a seated woman boss tells a standing bespectacled man employee "You're fired." He asks, "You're firing me?!" She replies that it's amazing: she gave a machine learning algorithm parameters and it told her who to fire, holding up a paper that simply reads "FIRED." In the next beat the roles flip: the employee now holds the paper and says, "I'm very sorry, but the algorithm has spoken." The boss protests, "You just gave it my name and told it I should be fired." He shrugs it off: "Whoa, whoa. I gave it a PARAMETER and am abiding by the outcome" — satirizing how people launder their own decisions through an algorithm to dodge accountability. A bottom banner promotes Bea Wolf, the author's graphic-novel adaptation of Beowulf. Votey aftercomic: a man who has walked off says, "Shit. Forgot my hat," and an off-panel voice instructs, "Set up another window!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.