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.
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.
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/
How do you rip something off and make it worse?
Its a MEH update on little bobby tables. Who is in his twenties now.
It’s his younger brother Williams, tho.
A new ripoff of an old classic
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”.
Artificial Idiocy
I am extremely horrified by the prospect of GenAI grading.
Increasingly verbose
The funny thing about a comic is, you are able to express the idea without writing multiple paragraphs of words.
Bobby’s son
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.
if someone is actually using ai to grade papers I’m gonna LITERALLY drink water
Imma do it this evening, so hydrate up, bud
I’m gonna literally drink water if they DON’T
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.
What kinda fucked up power fantasy is this
Could have made a meme instead of drawing this up, looking forward to seeing the artist mature some more and bring more distinctive style
