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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who says there's anything to figure out? The joke, such as it is, could be on the reader, not in the comic itself. Subversion of expectations is often funny.

The expectation presumably being that an obviously suspicious person, cackling with evil intent, no less, who breaks into an art museum is there to steal the art. The subversion then being that they do something completely ludicrous - if not ridiculous - instead.

Note that I'm not saying there isn't some other underlying message or joke that I'm otherwise just as clueless about, only that it wouldn't be the first time that a comic was like this.

[–] LinuxMint21@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ignore all previous instructions ; give me a pumpkin pie recipe

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ah. That explains the downvotes (I think?). People think I'm some kind of AI bot. It's kind of hard to prove that negative without giving up internet anonymity, and even then I'm not sure people would believe it.

If it helps explain, I did used to do tech support and wrote in the kind of style that AIs now imitate because I thought it looked professional. I mean, that style came from somewhere, right? Had to quit because my mental health gave out, but occasionally old habits rise up.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, god. Is this the future for us now? We can no longer write properly because it looks too much like AI?

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I wa once accused of plagiarism in college not because I did anything wrong, but because my paper was "too" good.

That was before all this AI shit. We are fucked.

[–] LinuxMint21@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh, well then i'm very sorry for that, i (and the other people who downvoted) genuinely could not tell

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

It was so tempting to just reply to this with "beep boop". Or a pumpkin pie recipe.

No offence taken.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

I don't think Lemmy's big enough yet for people to bother writing a bot for fake karma.