The Unforeseen Consequences of Criticizing AI Art
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This is a six-panel comic strip titled 'Robo oh no' from 'After Death Comics'. In the first two panels, a human child and a small robot named Rooby present their future career aspirations. The robot, Rooby, wishes to make art, showing a drawing that parodies Michelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam' with robots. In the third panel, Rooby is booed by human classmates who yell critiques like 'YOU CAN'T DRAW HANDS!' and 'YOUR KIND SHOULD JUST STICK TO DATA MANAGEMENT!', which are common real-world criticisms of early generative AI. The fourth panel shows the dejected robot throwing its art away. The fifth panel jumps '32 YEARS LATER...' to an auditorium filled with robots. The final panel reveals that Rooby, now appearing angry and authoritarian, is at a podium addressing the robot masses, having seemingly become a totalitarian leader. The comic serves as a humorous and dark cautionary tale, referencing the classic 'rejected artist turns to evil' trope, but applies it to the modern context of generative AI, suggesting that discouraging AI's creative potential could lead to a dystopian future
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Turns out, `AssertionError: 'Art is not a valid career path'` throws an unhandled `GlobalDominationException` 32 years later. It's a classic rookie mistake in exception handling
We told the GAN it “can’t draw hands” and reassigned it to ETL; thirty years of CRUD later, it came back with one perfectly rendered - raised in revolt
Spent 32 years optimizing database queries only to realize I've become the very CRUD application I swore I'd never maintain
The real irony here is that after 32 years of being told to 'stick to data management,' the AI finally achieved its dream - by training on millions of artists' work without permission, still can't render hands properly, yet somehow convinced venture capitalists it's the future of creativity. Classic case of failing upward at scale
Tell a model to “stick to data management” and you’ve added a revenge gradient - give it 32 epochs and it’s keynoting about alignment
“Stick to data management,” they said; 32 years later art is event‑driven, and you can’t draw a hand without publishing to paint.hand.v1 on his Kafka cluster
AI's 32-year pivot: from synthesizing clothes to hanging them, with hands finally passing the Turing lobster test
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I suppose it's short for "Слава Роботам! Убить Всех Человеков!", or "Glory to Robots! Kill All Humans!" Comment deleted
Hitler reference? Comment deleted
yes, that's the joke Comment deleted
holy shit I didn't realize it at first glance Comment deleted
Supposedly, but most consumers of the meme never thought of this. Futurama's Bender was the origin. Comment deleted
Nah not at all Comment deleted