Two muffins are baking in an oven. One muffin turns to the other and says “sure is hot in here isn’t it?”
To which the other muffin replies “Holy crap! A talking muffin!”Changing the muffins to cookies would not make it a different joke.
My gawds, some people need to learn what’s a homage and also stop being upset on behalf of others. This comic is fine, stop bellyaching. This is what terminal permission culture does to a motherfucker.
What is terminal permission if I may ask?
Hrm, give me a moment to check the ACLs, I’ll be able to resolve all these complex conflicting rules shortly…
Nevermind, it was easier to just globally disable SeLinux so I did that. Your system should be more secure now.
Narky, but real, updoot.
Call Dr. Kevorkian and ask.
Permission culture is a term primarily criticizing copyright law. Something that I would expect db0 to agree with! 🏴☠️
The only person who should care about anything other than the quality is Randall. However since he licensed it CC BY-NC 2.5 how he feels about it doesn’t really matter either.
We can probably infer by the licensing that he’s cool with it.
I think people should be concerned about things on others’ behalfs. We all need to stick together.
This situation is a send-up though. Totally not a concern.
Oh definitely! I just meant in this particular case.
A new ripoff of an old classic
Is it a ripoff if they credit the original?
Are you implying that the credit is here? If so, where? I am not seeing it.
Lower right corner.
Thanks!:-)
Shocked the title of the original isn’t Little Bobby Tables.
I honestly didn’t notice that - it was a bit small and pixelated, good catch
Bottom right
Bottom right.
if they make it almost exactly the same and “credit” it in the smallest font possible and didn’t get permission from the original author… i would say that’s definitely a ripoff
didn’t get permission from the original author
Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd. These comics are licensed as CC-BY-NC 2.5, which means you are allowed to remix and use them, without explicitly asking for permission, as long as you attribute the original/author (which is given here) and as long as you do it non-commercially (which is given for this post IMHO).
Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd.
tell me you’re completely uncreative without telling me you’re completely uncreative.
the rest of what i said stands… but whooooa you “got me” i didn’t read the license on xkcd
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
that’s not attribution.
It’s a parody
It’s not a parody. It’s a homage
It’s not a homage, it’s just the exact same joke.
But updated for our new hellscape!
it’s not a hoe-midge, it’s an oh-marge
It’s not an oh-marge, it’s ho-mahg-ee.
its not a ho, Marge. Gee, she’s a real person.
How is this a parody? It’s not poking fun at the original or pointing out its flaws.
quoth wikipedia: “A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.” … “The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said ‘parody … is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text.’”
yeah, and that’s not a parody.
In a version that doesn’t even fully make sense. With databases there is a well-defined way to sanitize your inputs so arbitrary commands can’t be run like in the xkcd comic. But with AI it’s not even clear how to avoid all of these kinds of problems, so the chiding at the end doesn’t really make sense. If anything the person should be saying “I hope you learned not to use AI for this”.
lil’ bobby generic
We’re evolving too!
The funny thing about a comic is, you are able to express the idea without writing multiple paragraphs of words.
As a daily reader of SMBC, I can confidently tell you this rule is a suggestion at best.
if someone is actually using ai to grade papers I’m gonna LITERALLY drink water
I have a colleague who is trying hard to do it, but it isn’t good enough yet fortunately. I point out as many issues as I can to deter him but it ain’t working.
Imma do it this evening, so hydrate up, bud
I’m gonna literally drink water if they DON’T
I’m drinking water as we speak and none of you can stop me!
HYDROHOMIES UNITE
As a large languag model I do not drink water
I’m going to drink my water before you get to it!
breaks through window, wrestles cup out of your hands, stands over you, bleeding
drinks the blood.
NOW I HAVE YOUR WATER!!
weeps
immediately a Fremen begins to extoll about my water giving virtues
Look up Texas’s STAAR writing tests
Artificial Idiocy
Reminds me of: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
A guy thought it would be funny to change his license plate to NULL.
So to combat our horrible privacy culture we should name everything null…
hi my name is null, null.
Hello there null Im doxing you now You live on null street in nullsvile in wouldntyouliketoknow lane house number 12345
:D
who would query null users though?!
Fun until you want to get a mortgage or something 😂
But maybe you won’t need to with all the inheritances you’ll get from rich people who died with no children 😂
And he was right.
Always satanise your inputs.
Hail!
Always sedate your inlaws
But that burns.
I am extremely horrified by the prospect of GenAI grading.
Dear God, hope you got my letter…
You are roughly a decade late. Computers have been grading essays for a long time. The mcat for example hasn’t had human grading in about that long.
that’s not generative ai
plus humans choose the correct answers
One of the best things ever about LLMs is how you can give them absolute bullshit textual garbage and they can parse it with a huge level of accuracy.
Some random chunks of html tables, output a csv and convert those values from imperial to metric.
Fragments of a python script and ask it to finish the function and create a readme to explain the purpose of the function. And while it’s at it recreate the missing functions.
Copy paste of a multilingual website with tons of formatting and spelling errors. Ask it to fix it. Boom done.
Of course, the problem here is that developers can no longer clean their inputs as well and are encouraged to send that crappy input straight along to the LLM for processing.
There’s definitely going to be a whole new wave of injection style attacks where people figure out how to reverse engineer AI company magic.
The original xkcd comic was better and this is a blatant ripoff. I know it says it’s based off of that original xkcd comic, but it’s basically line for line the same. Just talking about genAI instead of Databases, which ended up making less sense and made the whole joke worse.
I think it’s a paraphrase of a culturally significant webcomic inserted into a more modern context without it’s original meaning being altered.
I don’t know if I’d call it a paraphrase when it’s using 90% the exact same words.
without it’s original meaning being altered.
I think you mean “without its original meaningfully being altered.”
it literally has a credit to the original, go touch grass and stop inventing things to get mad over
Didn’t know I was mad… tell me more about what I should do and how I should do it.
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I don’t got energy for this negativity and harassment. So I deleted my comment rather than argue. You wanna bug me about it too and I’ll block you too. You aren’t worth the energy.
ah no sorry, I actually have no idea what you wrote - I just find the “deleted by creator” stuff I see so often super funny because of how biblical it sounds
I hope you have a better day than this one, and don’t let the mob get you down
content was sinful
It’s an old joke updated for new technology … that’s part of what makes it clever.
It references the original joke (albeit in very small text)
The Asterix books frequently did something similar. https://cloud.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/asterix-and-the-historical-interpretation/
Yikes. I’ve never read Asterix and Obelix, but did they really make (I assume) the only black character a straight up knuckle-dragging gorilla imitation? 😬
He’s possibly the only reoccurring black character, and yes it is very much a product of its time.
In defense of the authors the Gauls are all depicted with large bulbous noses, the Romans with Roman noses, etc; all cariceturs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature.
In the attached image you can see Obelix is also depicted as a “knuckle dragger” (at times). The character leading them is a Roman.
This second example shows the Vikings.
Cartoons back then were a little bit sambo so to speak, but the intent wasn’t strictly malicious, just uninformed.
You use the words/concepts you know to express something to an audience. If society tells you that native Americans wear headdresses, then you will likely add a headdress when introducing a new native american character, not neccesarily realising the damage of the stereotype behind it.
The fact that it’s a joke about genAi and that joke is a rehash of existing material is rather on point though.
I… Didn’t think of it that way.
Bobby’s son
It was in fact the mum who was good with computers. Bobby himself was never that interested in exploits.
He probably found it very hard to make any accounts on computers
remake of a classic
Little Bobby Tables
With xkcd attributed at the bottom of the image <3
Here’s the XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/
