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Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

It's a box of antique photographs. A blade, a girl and a fish. Whatever it means, you're invested.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What is happening here? Is this bots talking to bots in the comments? What is this art? I'm so confused.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the Tesla "robot" showed off at an event that turned out to just be a guy in a suit on top of the other things already mentioned by others.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TinyShonk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a paywall on that article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Huh, I didn't get blocked, maybe cause of NoScript or my VPN

[–] Mojave 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is a webcomic / art relating to the FOSS world. OP is the artist and has tons of fucking amazing surreal comics like this. They all take place in a dystopian cyber world where corporate technology oppresses the free tech users

The commenters probably aren't bots, just tech nerds schizo posting

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay yea I've seen some pretty decent stuff being posted here but never have any context lol

I could see schizo posting rather than bots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's a bit more context in the full comics on the web site

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What the fuck is happening in the comic tho?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sniper thought it shot a robot because of the outfit. It wasn't a robot that got shot.

[–] Mojave 3 points 1 month ago

"AI Wars" is likely in reference to big tech companies in real life fighting each other for dominance over the generative AI space. Meta's AI vs Google's Gemini vs OpenAI's ChatGPT etc ...

To me this comic reads as if a personified company AI was actually at war and killing enemy AIs. Except the AI that got shot was secretly a human in disguise

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ChewTiger 8 points 1 month ago

I'm still not getting it..

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Welcome, join the club.

No, the confusion will never leave but rather its why you will come back for more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Fine...but only cause you told me to