Duck
Original: Duck on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red hair and a red beard (to a woman with dark hair): AI doesn't really perceive anything. You can make it think one thing is another thing with a flip of a pixel.
Panel 2:
The woman holds up a phone showing an image of a yellow duck.
Woman: What is this?
Panel 3:
Man: It's a du—
Woman (interrupting): Bearing in mind that the public figure you despise most believes it's a duck.
Panel 4:
The man, now scowling.
Man: It is a fish.
Votey:
Caption text: Such a simple machine.
(Below the caption, a line drawing of the red-haired, bearded man's face.)
Man with red hair and a red beard (to a woman with dark hair): AI doesn't really perceive anything. You can make it think one thing is another thing with a flip of a pixel.
Panel 2:
The woman holds up a phone showing an image of a yellow duck.
Woman: What is this?
Panel 3:
Man: It's a du—
Woman (interrupting): Bearing in mind that the public figure you despise most believes it's a duck.
Panel 4:
The man, now scowling.
Man: It is a fish.
Votey:
Caption text: Such a simple machine.
(Below the caption, a line drawing of the red-haired, bearded man's face.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A red-haired, red-bearded man tells a dark-haired woman, "AI doesn't really perceive anything. You can make it think one thing is another thing with a flip of a pixel." Panel 2: The woman holds up a phone displaying a picture of a yellow duck and asks, "What is this?" Panel 3: The man starts to answer, "It's a du—" but the woman cuts in: "Bearing in mind that the public figure you despise most believes it's a duck." Panel 4: The man, now scowling, declares, "It is a fish." The joke: the man, who just mocked AI for being trivially fooled, is himself flipped from "duck" to "fish" by a single social cue, proving humans are just as easily manipulated. Votey aftercomic: text reads "Such a simple machine," above a line drawing of the bearded man's face—implying the man is the simple, easily-fooled machine.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.