Back in the days of Dall-e 2 I entered a fairly benign but deliberately confusing prompt, and Dall-e drew me a godawful dog. It looked like a stuffed animal, stiff and fake, and incorporated what appeared to be a human forearm in its lower jaw. And it sported a huge pink phallus.
Below, Dog stars in a tale about human extinction by genius AI. I believe it’s funny for those who like bleak and crass, otherwise not. You’ve been warned.
I laughed harder at this than any comedy movie I’ve seen in months. I liked how it was unafraid to be as crazy as it wanted to be. It felt like the dream of a person who reads a lot of ACX and AI safety...but also is tripping balls.
Have you ever seen “Charlie the Unicorn” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY]. I think it’s my favorite YouTube video I’ve ever watched. It’s nearly 20 years old, and I just went back to re-watch after reading this. This feels like the comic strip version of that.
I also couldn’t stop laughing at the thought of what someone who hasn't read a lot of AI-safety or ACX would think if they randomly came across this. Probably summed up with “the fuck is this.”