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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49 comments
datenwolf@chaos.social
I take it, that the name of the parrot is "stochastic", right?
βdavidrevoy
@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
22 βElBeeToots@mastodon.nl
I think the Avian Intelligence just scraped the online menu of Taco Bell π¬
βronaldb66@mastodon.social
Bird brain, indeed.
βchristopherbrown@mastodon.social
@courtcan Wow. I *really* enjoy your art style.
βdavidrevoy
@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. π
4 βchristopherbrown@mastodon.social
@courtcan Thank you for the link.
βTrimTab@mastodon.social
βBest 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 π
5 βbenoitmortier@techhub.social
π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£ IA bird π€£π€£π€£π€£
β0rkk0@fosstodon.org
I bet the π¦ 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 π .
3 βmokazemi@persadon.com
AI... AI Everywhere π€£
βchirpbirb@meow.social
this is offensive to us birds smh
davidrevoy
@chirpbirb π 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)
2 βelfi@pixie.town
@chirpbirb blame the school for not getting her a real bird
βdavidrevoy
@elfi @chirpbirb Yes, she deserve a crow, for sure ^ ^
3 βelfi@pixie.town
@chirpbirb everyone should get a crow tbh. Crows are friends
βdavidrevoy
@elfi @chirpbirb π€ π¦ββ¬
2 βlog@mastodon.sdf.org
Still useful when in combat against an entomoncer. Biting and stinging swarms are nasty.
βdavidrevoy
@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. π
βlog@mastodon.sdf.org
Maybe also when stepping out of the bath or shower? For a fractional second. Saves on both towels and razor blades.
βArneBab@rollenspiel.social
βΊ
βeldadoinquieto@mastorol.es
As real as real life indeed.
βdidier@famille.c-f.me
βEn mΓͺme temps, il faut Γͺtre prΓ©cis, une boule de feux, si elle reste sur place, elle vas brΓ»ler celui qui l'a gΓ©nΓ©rΓ© π₯
β Attention, une boule de feux qui avance peut aller dans la mauvaise direction ...π₯
Linebyline@mastoart.social
The sparkle emoji in the AI's dialogue bubbles is a nice touch. Really helps sell the obnoxiously cheerful tone.
βmkj@social.mkj.earth
Totally checks out!
#MiniFantasyTheather
βtcit
I like the fact that Stochastic's colors match the fact that AI-produced websites are usually purple and blue.
βhttps://medium.com/@kai.ni/design-observation-why-do-ai-generated-websites-always-favour-blue-purple-gradients-ea91bf038d4c
davidrevoy
@tcit Thank you Thomas! It felt sort of natural to me to do this design evolution (over the mechanical Parrot I made a year ago for FramamIA and Lokas) but I couldn't understand yet why I had this instinct for this color. This blog post you link is perfect to get a precise idea why and how they associated these color to AI/LLMs.
3 βjntesteves@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.
βdavidrevoy
@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 π€£ .
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).
6 βjargoggles@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 π π₯ Edit: wrong link, it was on the next episode!! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep22_The-Voting-System.html
4 βjargoggles@kolektiva.social
βAt least she had the presence of mind to wear fireproof underwear - a must-have for pyromancers everywhere.
simx72@defcon.social
i feel this xd
βkolya@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" π
3 βsindarina@ngmx.com
Haha, I love these π
ojelabii@norden.social
You really like LLMs, err⦠I meant "your AI parrot", don't you?
(Thanks for the share of your work! π)
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
π½οΈ 4329680b4479fd58.mp4LucKeyProductions@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
not it's AVIAGRILL
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, itβs 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
cybird@app.wafrn.net
Man, imagine being a robot bird, couldn't be me.
#Wait...
marnic
π€£π
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