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URGENT: ALWAYS COMPLETE YOUR SHIFT AND CLEAN YOUR AREA BEFORE FIGHTING DEMONIC FORCES
A wild Homer Simpson appears
“THIS TINY TEXT IS WAY TOO SMALL TO BE READ, SORRY!”
This looks and feels like AI slop
Stop bad-jacketing. Unless you have real evidence that it’s AI, you’re just hurting real artists.
What do you mean?
I think they are suggesting it does not appear to be drawn by a human.
The art style looks AI generated and flow of the comic feels AI generated.
Im with you that the style looks pretty AI, and at first glance I assumed so too, but the little jokes and characters dotted around brought me back.
Which is impressive considering how many background details and consistent things are across the panels pretty much guaranteeing that it isn’t.
Literally the worker has an apple tattoo that gets eaten over the course of the comic.
The firt three panels are a disconnected mess that spans several distinctly unconnected locations despite seemingly being a single short encounter between two characters.
You’ve never had a walk and talk through a work site that had different rooms?
Not across an entire site in three simple sentences no…
Oh, so you have to have things be completely literal.
No i was being facetious to your obviously sarcastic comment.
You obviously don’t agree this has AI-vibes, fair enough we don’t have to be aligned.
https://leftycartoons.com/about-barry-deutsch/
Check the sources… doesn’t seem like dude uses ai.
You need a vibe check if you’re thinking this is AI. The level of detail and in-jokes scattered throughout are definitely something that AI couldn’t pull off right now. Look at the snake and the apple, it moves between frames eating the apple, that’s not something it’s going to effectively do.
Because there are random hands and faces all over the place, random cartoon characters and every frame had no connection with the next frame except the to foreground characters?
This thing is chaos.
And I am loving it:-)
But a very different type of chaos than what an AI produces. If anything, this is the most “non-AI” comic I’ve ever seen.
When did AI ever include a bunch of accurate joke details, like the 3 first panels have?
Every day the feeling grows that calling legitimate art AI slop has done even more harm to artists than actual AI slop.
I very much doubt that AI would have included Homer Simpson, Brain and several other characters as well as tons of tiny yet legible text as easter eggs.
AI would include whatever the person using it tells it to.
It’s fine, I seem to be in the clear minority getting an AI-vibe from this from the downvote brigading I’ve received.
“Brigading” implies off-channel coordination. I don’t think that’s really what you’re suggesting is happening here.
Ah, yes then brigading was a poor choice of word.
Lol brigading as if we aren’t just reducing the visibility of an incorrect and poorly communicated opinion in this comment section.
Cause nobody can just admit they’re wrong or accept that people are ok to deny your visibility. It is fake internet points.
I downvote every comment that’s accusing something of being AI. Either it’s true, in which case the comment doesn’t change anything, or it’s false, in which case it’s hurtful. The upside is not worth the downside.
I want it to become a norm that accusing something of being AI is considered rude.
Yeah, good luck getting AI to follow such a complex prompt without plastering half the comic with unrecognizable cartoon mutants.
Current AI would mess up at least some of the Easter egg text added in the comic (if it would add it at all).
Not all slop is AI slop. You’re jumping at shadows, calm down.
Well I am certainly in the minority here.
Certainly a minority, but not quite alone. I see comments like yours a LOT.
Personally I’d prefer seeing people call out slop because it’s shitty, not based on how it was made, but with that I guess I’m the minority ¯\_(ツ)_¯
It’s fine if you considered the comic terrible, the issue is calling it AI Generated as it just not factually true
That’s exactly what I’m saying. Slop doesn’t have to be AI.
Maybe, but you phrased it as “AI Slop” IE you are saying it is AI generated
No, Klear didn’t, that was a different user.
Possibly but it’s also because you’re not willing to admit you may be wrong with your view and adjusting accordingly. Instead you’re digging in further.
AI is pretty consistently bad at small background text and expressive hand gestures and this image has quite a lot of both.
The box in the first panel is a good example. The text “caution: irrelevant prop” written on it becomes clearer when you zoom in; for things like that, AI usually makes sort of a word shaped tangle that turns to mush when you zoom in.
Then you’ve been conditioned to think that everything is AI slop. Learn to spot the signs of AI better.
when claiming something is generated by AI, you should probably look at the image for more than 5 seconds and probably know what an AI generated comic looks like
claiming something made by a real person is AI generated can be hurtful
Yep. Survived such an idiot.
Did the idiot make more money from that endeavour than you?
(Bcs unfortunately both can be true, financial gain is not exactly related to economic success or sense.)
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Classic plot of most of the Reddit revenge and Youtube channels.
I live how the title is misspelled.
I know about the other hidden characters in the comic, but what is this guy?
That, my friend, is a weezotski.
So many oligarchs and wannabe oligarchs to choose from…
So there’s Homer, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and Brain (From Pinky and the Brain).
Did I miss any other reference?
Thomas Pickety lays out the mechanics of this transference in Capitalism In The Twenty-First Century.
He establishes a comparison between the domestic rate of economic growth (typically measured in GDP) relative to the average return on investment (typically measured by bond rates or annualized stock market asset inflation). He finds that when GDP < ROI, wealth aggregates into the hands of a small pool of elites. Meanwhile, when GDP > ROI, wealth diffuses to the general public (the so-called Trickle Down Economics promised by Reagan).
These leveraged buyouts are only possible when private lenders can generate a compounding return in fictitious assets that outpaces a return investing in material capital and labor improvements. And the compounding return is, at its heart, a consequence of unpaid wages, bad debt, and unaccounted depreciation.
Picketty concludes that the most straightforward remedy to rebalancing GDP and ROI is to tax capital gains. This effectively forces down the ROI, while redirecting cash flow to public investments that boost GDP without triggering an inflationary spiral.
But what he can’t answer is how to address the social dynamic that allows taxes to fall and predatory business practices to accumulate. Media manipulation, imperialist plundering, and the exploitation of domestic lower social castes can’t be solved with tax policy. Who actually stops the Business Genius from wrecking the factory? What are the real material functions of the economy being controlled? And how do a handful of individuals successfully rent-seek from them without triggering a public revolt?
Many of these “business geniuses” do the following:
- buy struggling business cheap
- reduce expenses (biggest expense is always salaries, so fire a lot of people)
- on paper, the business is making money (while the rest of the staff frantically try to survive without enough manpower and with a lot of loss on knowledge and experience)
- sell doomed business before it collapses (remember: on paper, it looks healthy)
It’s a Bigger Idiot Scam: buy company, make it look valuable, sell it for profit to a bigger idiot, until someone is left holding the bag.
Except that someone can usually still gut it, sell its assets and push the cost on those that weren’t lucky enough to land a new job ahead of time.
I bought the company and I will short the stock.
This is how private equity MBAs have ruined everything.
I love that the guy’s tattoos change constantly:
- snake on right arm
- snake moves to the left arm
- apple gets bite taken from it as snake is now a real creature
So many little details in this comic!
Homer Simpson.
Thing.
Brain from Pinky and the Brain.
Deathbed regret is not working more! Text too small to read! Fighting demonic forces!
There’s also a body hiding in the floor in the first panel
