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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago
[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is happening here? Is this bots talking to bots in the comments? What is this art? I'm so confused.

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the Tesla "robot" showed off at an event that turned out to just be a guy in a suit on top of the other things already mentioned by others.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TinyShonk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a paywall on that article

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

Huh, I didn't get blocked, maybe cause of NoScript or my VPN

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is a webcomic / art relating to the FOSS world. OP is the artist and has tons of fucking amazing surreal comics like this. They all take place in a dystopian cyber world where corporate technology oppresses the free tech users

The commenters probably aren't bots, just tech nerds schizo posting

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay yea I've seen some pretty decent stuff being posted here but never have any context lol

I could see schizo posting rather than bots.

[–] z500@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

There's a bit more context in the full comics on the web site

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What the fuck is happening in the comic tho?

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Sniper thought it shot a robot because of the outfit. It wasn't a robot that got shot.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"AI Wars" is likely in reference to big tech companies in real life fighting each other for dominance over the generative AI space. Meta's AI vs Google's Gemini vs OpenAI's ChatGPT etc ...

To me this comic reads as if a personified company AI was actually at war and killing enemy AIs. Except the AI that got shot was secretly a human in disguise

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ChewTiger@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm still not getting it..

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome, join the club.

No, the confusion will never leave but rather its why you will come back for more.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Fine...but only cause you told me to

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you confuse Al with AI

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

He'd be very happy to be dead. Samesies

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is the moment Elmo jumped the shark.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 11 points 1 year ago

The Thespian robot (and others) could mirror a human's movement 10 years ago. Even if Optimus is actually mechanical, the recent "interacting with a crowd" video makes it quite obvious there is no AI.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The original mechanical turk prank was better.

...also, if you were really engineering a machine that could mix different drinks it would just be a bunch of pumps and tubes to various ingredients.

[–] pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sun is shocked, absolutely shocked, I say!

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a slight suspicion that it actually enjoys violence.

[–] pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Well it is known to emit radiation that messes with electronics. That must be very violent for our surreal friends!

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey man nice shot. Good shot man.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS
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[–] bbpngn@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

Mata vs Mata

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago