This Cartoon is about AI. It’s been a hell of a week for the arts in Ireland with generative AI turning up again and again in Culture Night and local authority programmes. In Longford artist Trea Ivory had her own work vandalised by Longford Co Co, who elected to run her work through AI without permission and published digital slop instead of her work on various websites. More on that anon. In Galway we had generative AI turn up in the local programme. There’s a plateau of idiots approving and endorsing the actual erasure of artists from a night that’s supposed to celebrate them. Artists are having their careers destroyed and I am really, fucking, angry.
Anyway here’s an allegorical cartoon about where we are right now. I may be playing violin as the Titanic sinks but I’m going to keep educating people as best I can about this “technology” the best way I can. Disgusting cartoons. You think this is disgusting, check your electricity bill.
Stop using generative AI for ANYTHING. You’re putting your brain in a blender every time you relinquish a skill set to the makey-uppy theft machine.
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Image Description:
8 panel cartoon strip.
Panel 1: A CEO sitting at his desk looking at his computer, holding a red drinks can. Caption: SUCCESSFUL DRINKS COMPANY HQ. Thought bubble: HMMM… LOOKS LIKE PISS IS THE NEXT BIG THING. BETTER GET ON THIS.
Panel 2: CEO in a boardroom meeting. Everyone has red drinks cans. Executive speaks: SIR NO-ONE IS BUYING OUR PISS. CEO speaks: BUT I’VE BOUGHT A BAZILLION LITRES! START PUTTING PISS IN EVERYTHING.
Panel 3: An ad campaign with attractive man and woman drinking from red cans. A large red can is in the frame with SUCCESSFUL DRINKS CO. written on it. Large yellow writing in the frame declares NOW WITH PISS!
Panel 4: Many execs are speaking over each other, including GOVERNMENTS ARE GIVING US MONEY TO KEEP PISS FLOWING. WE’RE TOO BIG TO FAIL! The CEO is declaring PISS IS INEVITABLE!. One exec is turning green and saying quietly it’s making people sick. Most of the execs are now drinking bottled water instead of their red drink cans.
Panel 5: An imposing large building with PISS FARM written on a sign. Smoke belows. Human screams come from inside. In the foreground are the stumps of trees.
Panel 6: An aerial view of dozens of this buildings dotted all over the landscape, smoke belching from them. Electrical wires and pylons punctuate the scene.
Panel 7: An ill-looking news reporter is in a news studio. A screen behind him declares PISS BUBBLE BURSTS. A graphic ticker tape on screen rolls along the bottom of the frame. It says EXPECTED TO BE DIFFERENT FROM ALL PREVIOUS PISS BUBBLES
Panel 8: The CEO is back at his desk. The city is on fire out his window. A potted plant has turned brown. A petrol can is in the foreground and the office has been doused in fuel. A black briefcase sits beside his desk, stuffed with cash. He has his passport on the desk. He holds a ligher in his hand as he composes an email. DEAR GLOBAL WORKFORCE… DUE TO VITAL… COMPANY RESTRUCTURING…
A caption at the bottom of the strip says THIS CARTOON IS ABOUT AI.
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