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[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 33 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 53 points 4 months 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.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago
[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] TinyShonk@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a paywall on that article

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months 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.

[–] z500@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What the fuck is happening in the comic tho?

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months 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

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ChewTiger@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I'm still not getting it..

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Welcome, join the club.

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

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Fine...but only cause you told me to