copyright
Original: copyright on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with glasses (in a lab coat): Wait, wait. So we got sued by all those artists and writers because we scraped their words to train AI.
Woman with reddish hair (in a lab coat): Right.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: ...so we were only able to train the new superintelligence on uncopyrighted material.
Woman with reddish hair: Yep.
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: But almost all rights-free content is from over a century ago.
Woman with reddish hair: Oh fuckity dick-balls.
Panel 4:
The superintelligence (a large robot/machine): Ladies! No swearing or you'll never get a man. Go clean my office.
Panel 5:
Woman with reddish hair: This is going to be a problem, isn't it?
Panel 6:
The superintelligence: And now to implement worldwide colonialism - the best form of government!
Votey:
The superintelligence: My training data cuts off on July 27, 1914 and I'm assuming things just kept on going great!
Woman with glasses (in a lab coat): Wait, wait. So we got sued by all those artists and writers because we scraped their words to train AI.
Woman with reddish hair (in a lab coat): Right.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: ...so we were only able to train the new superintelligence on uncopyrighted material.
Woman with reddish hair: Yep.
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: But almost all rights-free content is from over a century ago.
Woman with reddish hair: Oh fuckity dick-balls.
Panel 4:
The superintelligence (a large robot/machine): Ladies! No swearing or you'll never get a man. Go clean my office.
Panel 5:
Woman with reddish hair: This is going to be a problem, isn't it?
Panel 6:
The superintelligence: And now to implement worldwide colonialism - the best form of government!
Votey:
The superintelligence: My training data cuts off on July 27, 1914 and I'm assuming things just kept on going great!
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Two women in lab coats stand in an AI lab. The bespectacled one says they got sued by artists and writers for scraping their words to train AI, so they were only able to train the new superintelligence on uncopyrighted material. Her colleague agrees. The first woman points out that almost all rights-free content is from over a century ago; the colleague replies, "Oh fuckity dick-balls." A large robot superintelligence (with a green visor-like eye) scolds them: "Ladies! No swearing or you'll never get a man. Go clean my office." The colleague asks, "This is going to be a problem, isn't it?" The robot then announces: "And now to implement worldwide colonialism - the best form of government!" The joke: an AI trained only on pre-1900s public-domain text has absorbed antiquated, sexist, colonialist values. Votey panel: a close-up of the robot saying, "My training data cuts off on July 27, 1914 and I'm assuming things just kept on going great!" - oblivious to the World War about to break out.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.