The Correct Incantation
Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. The gothic sorceress, dressed in dark, flowing robes, stands in the middle of a desolated land. She gazes at the colorful mechanical parrot flying near her shoulder: the Avian Intelligent Parrot. The sorceress asks with a hint of curiosity.
Gothic sorceress: "Hey, Avian Intelligence, what's the incantation for summoning a fireball?"
AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: The correct incantation for a fireball is "IgnisMe"."
Panel 2. The gothic sorceress cracks a wicked smile, her eyes shining with anticipation as she raises her hands in front of her, fingers spread and ready to cast.
Gothic sorceress: "Alright, let's give it a shot... IgnisMe!"
Panel 2(small insert in previous panel). Only the eyes of the gothic sorceress are visible in a large flame.
Gothic sorceress: "?!!"
Panel 3. The gothic sorceress is burnt, her face contorted in a mix of shock, anger, and pain. Flames and smoke dance around her, her dark robes burnt and tattered, revealing exposed parts of her anatomy.
Gothic sorceress: "You #*$%@& bird! You gave me a self-immolation spell instead of a fireball spell!"
Panel 4. As the sorceress facepalms, the Avian Intelligent parrot replies with stoicism.
AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: You're absolutely right! The correct incantation for a fireball is "PyroBolus"."
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datenwolf@chaos.social
I take it, that the name of the parrot is "stochastic", right?
★davidrevoy
@datenwolf Yes, totally a reference to the famous "Stochastic Parrot" paper. The first part also was a direct reference to that :
https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115577466253882640
39 ★ElBeeToots@mastodon.nl
I think the Avian Intelligence just scraped the online menu of Taco Bell 😬
★ronaldb66@mastodon.social
Bird brain, indeed.
★christopherbrown@mastodon.social
@courtcan Wow. I *really* enjoy your art style.
★davidrevoy
@christopherbrown @courtcan Thank you! I also publish the HD version on the website if you want to have a look on the brush work without much compression https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/028__hd.html , I was happy about I rendered the shade of dark gray for her dress on this one. 😊
9 ★christopherbrown@mastodon.social
@courtcan Thank you for the link.
★TrimTab@mastodon.social
★Best stochastic parrot ever!! Please mak this a series. :-)
davidrevoy
@TrimTab Thanks! I'll see, next week, I think I want to draw again the little necromancer of the Halloween special episode. But this gothic sorcerer and her AI parrot will probably be my go to for all my future AI/LLM related jokes 🙂
13 ★jairajdevadiga@mastodon.social
@TrimTab Don't forget the Amphora of Great Intelligence!
Hopefully we will get to see the Amphora and the parrot in the same episode one day soon. 😅
davidrevoy
@jairajdevadiga @TrimTab 🤣
TrimTab@mastodon.social
★Awesome :-) It's just a great idea for the best worst sidekick ever... We all deal with AI stupidity every day, comedic potential is ripe! :-) She needs to train the Stokey (i named your parrot sorry) how to count blueberries or something...
benoitmortier@techhub.social
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 IA bird 🤣🤣🤣🤣
★0rkk0@fosstodon.org
I bet the 🦜 was powered by an LLM and its nickname is *stochastic* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot) :rofl: cc @emilymbender
davidrevoy
@0rkk0 @emilymbender hehe, yes, a direct reference to this paper. The first part here https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115577466253882640 does a more direct reference. It will probably be my recurring character for mocking AI 😋 .
6 ★mokazemi@persadon.com
AI... AI Everywhere 🤣
★chirpbirb@meow.social
this is offensive to us birds smh
davidrevoy
@chirpbirb 💜 I'm very sorry about it. Birds are my friends (Fr, I'm really the guy with many spot on garden with seeds and little names for all the recurrent little winged visitors I have)
5 ★elfi@pixie.town
@chirpbirb blame the school for not getting her a real bird
★davidrevoy
@elfi @chirpbirb Yes, she deserve a crow, for sure ^ ^
4 ★elfi@pixie.town
@chirpbirb everyone should get a crow tbh. Crows are friends
★davidrevoy
@elfi @chirpbirb 🖤 🐦⬛
2 ★log@mastodon.sdf.org
Still useful when in combat against an entomoncer. Biting and stinging swarms are nasty.
★davidrevoy
@log Ha, thank you! I really wondered for a long time why the IgnisMe spell was even a thing and I just thought: go with it, you'll find something. Now I have a solution. 👍
3 ★log@mastodon.sdf.org
Maybe also when stepping out of the bath or shower? For a fractional second. Saves on both towels and razor blades.
★elgregor@librem.one
@log Ninjas can't catch you if you are on fire. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/267219-ninjas-cant-catch-you-if
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
☺
★eldadoinquieto@mastorol.es
As real as real life indeed.
★didier@famille.c-f.me
★En même temps, il faut être précis, une boule de feux, si elle reste sur place, elle vas brûler celui qui l'a généré 🔥
❗ Attention, une boule de feux qui avance peut aller dans la mauvaise direction ...🔥
Linebyline@mastoart.social
The sparkle emoji in the AI's dialogue bubbles is a nice touch. Really helps sell the obnoxiously cheerful tone.
★mkj@social.mkj.earth
Totally checks out!
#MiniFantasyTheather
★jntesteves@fosstodon.org
I love this character! She looks introvert and short-tempered, total opposite of Pepper. Does she have a name? I hope she gets her crow one day. She deserves her own series.
★davidrevoy
@jntesteves Thanks! I'm also starting to like her a lot. (and the Necromancer of the Halloween special too). At first for the fun, I named them: Cepper and Parrot 🤣 .
But her core inspiration is really a cartoony version of how I would draw Yennefer from The Witcher series.
So, I might call her something similar on the future, to keep the pattern while not flirting too much with the copyright. Yefer, or just Yen (the nickname of Yenefer).
8 ★jargoggles@kolektiva.social
Lucky for her, the spell follows Bruce Banner rules for clothing damage.
davidrevoy
@jargoggles Haha, yes, I'll not do twice the same mistake than the one I did for Saffron during the magic contest 😆 🔥 Edit: wrong link, it was on the next episode!! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep22_The-Voting-System.html
6 ★jargoggles@kolektiva.social
★At least she had the presence of mind to wear fireproof underwear - a must-have for pyromancers everywhere.
simx72@defcon.social
i feel this xd
★kolya@social.cologne
Latin and classical Greek are mixed rather willy-nilly in those incantations. :thinking:
davidrevoy
@kolya haha, Guilty as charged for using "Ethymologicus Magicus NotReallyEfficiencus" 😆
5 ★sindarina@ngmx.com
Haha, I love these 😄
★m_berberich@chaos.social
Better than most AIs.
Cable with cable lugs.
Q: Which speakers does this cable work with?
AI: This cable works with all speakers that have banana sockets.
Q: That's wrong!
AI: Oh, sorry, I was wrong, [blah blah blah] The cable works with all speakers that have banana sockets.
Tifo@pagan.plus
burning wizard lore
📽️ ccfe1c3723423ba5.mp4 ★LucKeyProductions@c.im
That'll teach her; not memorizing even the most basic of spells. Everyone knows pyrobolus.
Perrort must've misunderstood 'summoning' as 'becoming'.
★f4grx@chaos.social
no it's AVIAGRILL
3 ★davidrevoy
@f4grx 😆 🔥 🦜
2 ★Stellar@mk.absturztau.be
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org this is not just burning, its learning and controlling fire sis, and that's magical.
★PurpleShadow@eldritch.cafe
Fun fact: "ignisme" sounds like it should be a Catalan word meaning something about fire-ideology :D
★Sobex@sciences.re
Well, now a I need to print that one, and re-organise my door (I can fit a row of three, but not a row of four anti AI comics)
skye@toot.cat
i absolutely fucking love your drawings and i am so happy whenever they cross my feed, it’s such a pure joy to look at them, i always feel like i can see not only just the skill that went into them, but all the fun and the love as well
davidrevoy
@skye
💜 Merci !
2 ★cybird@app.wafrn.net
Man, imagine being a robot bird, couldn't be me.
#Wait... ★
marnic
★🤣👍
yPhil@mstdn.social
I dont get the joke..?
davidrevoy
@yPhil Good for you: it's a sign your contact with AI/LLM is minimal. The joke is about how AI/LLM like ChatGPT usually replies when it is wrong and you correct them. Even if it burns you, wipe your user dir, or advise bad med; it will not acknowledge the disastrous consequences of it inaccuracy and just repeat after saying "you are right!" that is one of its catchphrase.
4 ★yPhil@mstdn.social
Oooh 😶 Dang (pardon my French) I *totally* missed it. That's actually factually funily funny, sorry for being such a bonehead.
★Because wouldn't you know, I'm sadly quite accustomed to the "You're absolutely right, you have to break the eggs first" BS that has already self-immolated many hours of my life ; Thanks for you patience, sir.
yonerf@maly.io
Juste un immense *merci* !
C'est brillant, précis, méticuleux, simple et explicite mais à la fois très fin.
J'étais, je suis et resterai fan.
Bravo l'artiste !
davidrevoy
@yonerf
awww! Merci !
Takiro@meow.social
I imagine a version where the parrot gives the exact same answer again.
davidrevoy
@Takiro haha, yes, it could work also 🤣
3 ★FugazziPL@pouet.chapril.org
On m'a demandé de traduire ton travail. Je partage sous ta licence.
"Hey, Intelligence Aviaire, quelle est l'incantation pour invoquer des boules de feu ?"
"L'incantation correcte pour des boules de feu est "Ignisme" "
"Très bien, essayons un coup… Ignisme !"
"Toi ! *&*#/! d'oiseau !! Tu m'as donné un sortilège d'auto-immolation au lieu d'un sortilège de boule de feu !"
"Tu as absolument raison ! L'incantation correcte pour une boule de feu est "Pyrobolus" "
davidrevoy
@FugazziPL Merci. Tu trouveras sur le site une traduction française faite hier bénévolement par @Nartance : https://www.peppercarrot.com/fr/miniFantasyTheater/028.html (et tous les strips précédents le sont aussi)
4 ★duncan_blues@norden.social
★Made my day! 🤣👍
hyperreal@tilde.zone
Well if you knew anything about incantations the -me suffix would have been an indicator that the spell is directed at the invoker! Use the AI responsibly!
But...university students are...university students. They obviously aren't experts yet.
★lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
You're right to question that incantation, here's how it went wrong...
★catmisgivings@stranger.social
i finally clocked how she's doing this no-eyecontact "hey alexa" kind of thing in the first two panels and then whirls to address the AI-bird directly in panel 3!
★n_dimension@infosec.exchange
Using Avian Intelligence is a learned skill.
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★andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
What happened to the trees?
No smoke. No sign. Am I missing something?
davidrevoy
@andre Oh no, well spotted: I just forgot painting the trees on the last panels 😅
★andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
Oh! Oh! I know!
Given that the tree changed in early panels, maybe they're alive, sensed the imminent danger and moved away?
I mean, @ralphruthe also has living trees:
★https://ruthe.de/cartoon/3510/datum/asc/ (German only)
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
Recently I wondered whether there could be a crossover with https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1029/too-often
davidrevoy
@andre Hehe, probably something to be done with "Armament Intelligence" or about another better weapon. "Axe Intelligence" sounds good too 🤣
andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
That sounds more like something https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1033/help-desk would try to upsell.
★hairylarry@gamerplus.org
So funny. And true. I mean everyone knows the correct incantation for Fireball is "Pyrobolus".
nlupo@amikejo.xyz
When you ask ChatGPT something.
muellermeier@bark.lgbt
haha, great!
★jak@defcon.social
we need more comics with the Gothic Sorcerer and the Avian Intelligence!
davidrevoy
@jak Thank you! I kept writing for these two last week and came up with three more comic strips; I drew another one on monday and yesterday. I'll release it this afternoon. 🙂
★didier@famille.c-f.me
★I had pretty much the same conversation with an AI yesterday...
The question I asked myself next was: Why did I want to correct/educate it?
cturnbow@mastodon.world
May I please share this one with my team
davidrevoy
@cturnbow Sure! You'll find also better resolution and the four comic strip so far about the AI Parrot here https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater.html
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