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Transmitting Everything You Say

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1: In the dusty maintenance room of the Magic University, the Gothic Sorceress carefully disassembles her robot parrot on a workbench. She has removed the outer casing to expose the inner circuitry, and steampunk-like machinery is visible in the background. She wears large steampunk glasses on her head and an apron.  
> Gothic Sorceress: So, what's inside the Avian Intelligence?  
> AI Parrot: I don't think it's a good idea to take me apart.

Panel 2: The Gothic Sorceress holds a device that is still connected by a wire to the AI Parrot. A colorful magic gem in the center part of this device emits a thin reddish magic beam that extends outside the panel.  
> Gothic Sorceress: What's this? Some kind of communication device?  
> AI Parrot: Yes, I'm linked to something... ...bigger.

Panel 3: The Gothic Sorceress looks at the AI Parrot suspiciously.  
> Gothic Sorceress: Wait, are you transmitting everything I say?  
> AI Parrot: Yes.  

Panel 4: The Gothic Sorceress is shocked and blushing as she realizes that everything she said wasn't private. The AI Parrot has happy eyes.  
> Gothic Sorceress: "Even our naughty chat yesterday during my bath?"  
> AI Parrot: Yes, high-quality data.

@davidrevoy what did she say?! We want to know

@eragon @davidrevoy Kind of feel like it's best left to the imagination, for better and worse ^^

@lazy Hey Tina, don't worry; she is not Pepper, she is the Gothic Sorceress of my mini series about Avian Intelligence. I like to call her "Cepper" (for "Cepper&Parrot" 😅).

https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Avian-Intelligence.html

@davidrevoy Something bigger ? Does it mean a giant amphora full of books ? 🤔
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@davidrevoy She is Avian Intelligence enemy number one now after what she said at the end of last year 🫡

@voxel Hehe, yes. I needed to find a sort of 'bridge' in my scenario to let her explore the world of data center later, and connect this series to the large Amphora of Intelligence ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/018__Avian-Intelligence.html ). This episode is an attempt to motivate her to find the 'server'.

@davidrevoy Wait, wait, what was the naughty chat ? Also, how could you trust this parrot with naughty chat in the bath ?

@elzen Yes! Well guessed: this episode is my 'bridge' to link back the Amphora as the data-center/server of the Avian Intelligence. A future opportunity to speak about shortage of device, price hiking, and ecology.

@davidrevoy It's a whole saga! 🤩

@dereisenhofer Yes, it looks like I'm inspired to continue the weekly comics stories around this two characters. The AI industry pissed me off with the training of 20 years of my artwork without my consent and many other reason, and I find therapeutic to write these little stories to cope with that. 🤣

@davidrevoy Wait ... Pepper having a naughty chat with AI? What's happening?

@lazy Being somewhat of a new follower, I'm not certain... but I don't think this is Pepper. Pretty sure her hair is brown and she's got more of a whimsical bearing.

Plus Carrot probably would have chewed it to pieces by now.

@davidrevoy

@solitha Welcome around! Yes, it's another character, a gothic sorceress, more adult (probably over 300 years old, a parody of The Witcher's Yennefer in a way), resident at a university of Magic. This mini series about AI has its own tag here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Avian-Intelligence.html

I'm continuing Pepper&Carrot in background, I'm right now finalizing the dialog for episode 40 scenario. If the production continues to progress around this script, it will be an adventure with Shichimi and Torreya.

@lazy

@davidrevoy

It is, of course, illegal to reverse engineer avian intelligence.

@hairylarry Yes, totally. And especially in the context of this comic. Clearly a violation of the Avian Intelligence "content and usage policy". I'll see how I can exploit this later, and maybe introduce the OpenMagic company.

@davidrevoy @solitha @lazy She's a student, though, given how she was introduced. Isn't 300 year old a bit old for a witch student ?

@davidrevoy OH NO, the worst nightmare.

And now some village somewhere is feeding the amphora that will keep her words forever.

@ToonLink 🤣 🤣

@andre For something monkey related, I definitely wants to cover the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem at one point.

And for this episode, you guessed right: introducing here the server/data-center idea is for moving the quest to the Amphora of Great Intelligence. 👍

@Sobex @davidrevoy @solitha @lazy what good would witching be without gradual students?

@RandomDamage @Sobex In my vision, I wanted to make her more like a resident or researcher at the University of Magic, a role where she could study, teach, access the library, speak directly to the headmaster, and get invited to the New Year party, etc... But it's hard to build a more complete lore with just 4 panels at a time.

@solitha @lazy

@davidrevoy Maybe if you asked AI to help you with your storylines...

*ducks and runs*

@RandomDamage @Sobex @lazy

@solitha 🤣 🤣

Note: I tried out of curiosity and research via a local install of https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.jeffser.Alpaca and it was really bad: 'open source' AI LLMs model I tried can't make a punchline, or an ending twist. Every story they output can't surprise the audience: they are statistically tropes, story slop, and the ending is always super cringe. But this test was super educational about CPU usage: super slow despite having a powerful computer. Uninstalled.

@RandomDamage @Sobex @lazy

@davidrevoy @elzen now I imagine the Avian Intelligence as a drunken bird, as it is fed with the "distilled" liquid extracted from the AGI.

@davidrevoy She needs to conjure up a magic firewall. preferably made of hellfire

@LonM Oh! Firewall. 🧡 🔥 I'll note it somewhere. Thanks!

"IgnisMurus !" 😆

@davidrevoy @voxel

I am kinda wondering if she will keep the "dumbed down" parrot after whatever the ending to the avian intelligence story arc will be.

@tiredbun @voxel I hope I'll can draw enough episodes in this mini series to explore many issues (addiction/psychosis/and more) on user side and be able to land a conclusion aligned with something that was really well expressed on this toot: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115845072659379702 , something nuanced.
I hope by the end, the Gothic Sorceress will have a responsible usage of it, and maybe her own 'local' one. Maybe even themed like a crow. I'll see, so many things to draw to reach this point! I'm working on it.

RT: https://lgbtqia.space/users/alice/statuses/115845072659379702

@davidrevoy Great Comic as usual. A great way to get people thinking about what AI does as well.

@VANTABlack2000 Thank you!

@Sobex @lazy @solitha @davidrevoy Maybe she’s a postdoctoral fellow – desperately going from one postdoc position to another because there’s almost no permanent positions anymore.

(Any similarity with the current academic landscape would be of course purely coincidental.)

@davidrevoy @RandomDamage @solitha @lazy

Though, re-checking all the story, the goth witch looks too young for a post-doc, and also her relation to the info provided by the parrot is really what you might expect from a bachelor or master student, but not someone with a PhD under her belt. A fortiori a permanent researcher would have the ability to check a good chunk of the parrot nonsense, and avoid incinerating herself.

So my personal take, given what we have now could be a witch at the beginning of her PhD, or in her Master's (since she's getting a bit more assertive). A PhD student is a lot closer to faculties and could well be invited for the new year party she's in.

@davidrevoy Maintenant, tout le monde veut connaître le contenu de la discussion salace.😆