Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for November 03, 2024

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    marilynnbyerly  2 days ago

    “On the Muppet Show, tonight!”

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    Ahsum  2 days ago

    Sunday Funday

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    Kahlu  2 days ago

    My feeling is that we need fewer viruses and more logic and compassion…..

    … but I also realise that these are humans about whom we speak. And we haven’t done a stellar job of either. :(

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    Le'letha Premium Member 2 days ago

    …and maybe they could clean some carpets on the way out? All in one night? Like Santa Claus, only for cleaning?

    …please?

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    uncle snipe  2 days ago

    Onward Vacuum soldiers, hoovering through the dust…..

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    Ricky Bennett  2 days ago

    I hope the bug lets me win more sweep stakes…

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    Kahlu  2 days ago

    Just a couple more days until Shouty People Day. Whichever candidate wins, there is going to be fallout. Try to be patient and kind with each other. We have a long road ahead. ♡

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    Fennec! at the Disco  2 days ago

    So… It makes A.I. gradually become more and more obviously dreck, so that humans catch on that it’s dreck and do something about it?

    I hope so! But we humans have a history of not being bright enough to catch a clue till it’s waaaay too late!

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    Fennec! at the Disco  2 days ago

    For those who may be wondering: yes, the alien letters in each panel are translated/transliterated at the bottom of the panel.

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    Robin Harwood  2 days ago

    “Common sense, reasonable laws”Who decides which laws are reasonable and common sense? If not me, then we are all doomed.

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    saobadao  2 days ago

    And the Muppets tune is back!

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    Fennec! at the Disco  2 days ago

    Killer Roombas from Outer Space—

    Killing the A.I. in every place!

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    thelsrc  2 days ago

    A number of commenters were wondering why 1) there were so many Doombas in the apartment and 2) why the adults needed to be ensorcelled. Since I believe the simple answers are usually the correct (and most elegant) answers I would propose the following. The answer to 1) is that the Doombas perceived Tortimer to be a rock star and they all wanted to meet him. And the answer to 2) is that if the adults were conscious they would interfere with their meeting Tortimer.

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    saobadao  2 days ago

    Haven’t seen Mr. Man for awhile. Is he okay?

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    azkfwecho Premium Member 2 days ago

    Little late coming in tonight got involved in a TV program. But, lo and behold, we have Beatrix toebeans and Iggy toebeans coming in for a landing! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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    Sue Ellen  2 days ago

    Couldn’t we at least have gotten a glimpse of the RCO crowd looking out the attic windows?

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    dmah Premium Member 2 days ago

    It’s time to clean the carpets

    It’s time to bite the dust

    It’s time to greet the doombas, We’re doombas you can trust!

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member 2 days ago

    {chortle} From the Muppet Show to a hymn. Interesting!

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    WelshRat Premium Member 2 days ago

    I hope Tortimer doesn’t break down tomorrow… And who’s going to tell the Woman the story and get scolded for making things up? (Complimented for the inventiveness, though.)

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member 2 days ago

    You hear that Yolanda? No more jamming your sensors. And I’ll try to pick up random bits of Kleenex. Maybe we can get through a cleaning without you needing Urgent Care.

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    cb8ty  2 days ago

    I always am a little suspicious of something you’ll “never see coming” (quote OZ) especially when we’re talking about computer bugs.

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member 2 days ago

    Humans, famous for their common-sense, reasonable approach to problems.

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    Gent  2 days ago

    So it is 20 years to doom then eh. That how long steenky aliens robots virus is gonna take to spreads. A slow painful deaths eh. Them dangnabbits diabolical steenky robot aliens. We here to serve earth they said. It gonna be deeleeshus they said.

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    Kitty Katz  1 day ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

    Beatrixa: So the alien Roombas were benevolent in their intentions. I wonder if their plan worked.

    Puckmosis: I guess we won’t find out, but I think as long as common sense prevails they’ll be alright.

    Pink Lupinium: What’s common sense again?

    Bea: I’ve changed my mind. We need a bit of common nonsense as well.

    Ora Z: Now the tomato storm has passed. I’m going to the Royal Kitchen to help the staff process the tomatoes into sauce.

    Elvis-Anum: Great! We’re going to have Biscetti for dinner tonight!

    Pink Lupinum: I thought it was Skibetti.

    Puck: Whatever. It’ll be messy and delicious.

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    bryan42  1 day ago

    This still doesn’t explain why they gave all but one of the adults brain-freeze!

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    Ruth Brown  1 day ago

    I have never connected my Roomba to the internet. She is my best worker.

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    LtPowers  1 day ago

    Okay but why the audio glitch that gave all the hearing adults the mind-whammy?

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    Miss Mina  1 day ago

    Another happy ending! BCN is always so optimistic. Just what we need right now.

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    bonita.eley  1 day ago

    " marching as to war.."

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    grocks  1 day ago

    I’d love to believe this happy ending. But even with common sense laws, humans being humans, there will be those who subvert them for harm.

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    grocks  1 day ago

    I love that Tortimer is a hero!

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    ladykat  1 day ago

    A happy ending to the story, and a good time was had by all.

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    scyphi26  1 day ago

    BTW, there have been real attempts to do pretty much precisely as described with AI here in real life, by deliberately feeding AI images (or other data) with the data subtly tweaked in such a way that, to the viewer, the image (or whatever) looks largely normal, but it tricks the AI into thinking it is something it is not actually and for it to proceed with that assumption instead. The idea being that, if enough of this is “taught” to the AI, it’ll learn the wrong things and instead of giving you, say, a picture of a car, it gives you a picture of an elephant instead, making its generative properties effectively useless if it can’t produce accurate content.

    And as the pro-AI crowd keep reminding people, once an AI has learned something, you can’t just make it unlearn it, so…

    Of course, the AI developers are already aware of such attempts and are working to address this vulnerability, but not only is that likely to just end in a cold war scenario of no real end (kind of like companies attempts to render adblockers inert only for the adblockers to adapt and blocks such attempts), to me, it just proves how unreliable AI actually can be and that it’d be highly unwise for humanity to try to become dependent upon it.

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    win.45mag  1 day ago

    Marching as to war. With the flag of Roombas, going on before.

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    cat19632001  1 day ago

    OT – Millie the Hurricane Cat

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    Daltongang Premium Member 1 day ago

    1 Onward, Vacuum soldiers,

    marching as to war,

    With the might of kittens

    going on before!

    Borg Queen, the royal Master,

    leads against the foe;

    Forward into battle,

    see his banner go!

    Refrain:

    Onward, Vacuum soldiers,

    marching as to war,

    With the might of kittens

    going on before!

    2 At the sign of triumph

    AI’s host doth flee;

    On, then, Vacuum soldiers,

    on to victory!

    Servers foundations quiver

    at the shout of praise;

    Cats, lift your voices,

    loud your anthems raise!

    [Refrain]

    3 Like a mighty army

    moves the Roomba league;

    Roomba’s, we are treading

    where the vacuums have trod;

    We are not divided;

    all one body we,

    One in hope and doctrine,

    one in the Borg Queen.

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    4 Onward, then, ye cats,

    join our happy throng,

    Blend with ours your voices

    in the triumph song;

    Glory, laud, and honor,

    unto the Borg Queen;

    This thro’ countless ages

    kids and kittens sing.

    [Refrain]

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    Biskits  1 day ago

    Have we heard from Tampa fanatic yet?

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    Elvis  1 day ago

    cough cough

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    TechDude  1 day ago

    Naturally, I have been reading this strip with close intent (being a tech guru and all). It is awesome to see all the ways that AI is being seen. For all of you scared of it, don’t worry. AI can barely solve math problems and generate images. It is a gimmick, not a threat. Plus, I have made my own chatbot (Im eleven) in my free time! Its actually not hard to see its flaws and fallacies for those willing to learn. Nice strip, Georgia!

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    anomalous4  1 day ago

    And not only is Tortimer the one who’ll save the Earth world; he also gets to experience the thrill of flying with his alien friends! YAAAAAYYYYY!!!

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    jeffbacon12357  1 day ago

    Or are they? Bwah ha ha ha!

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    Katzen1415  1 day ago

    Yay! Save the world, heroic roombas!

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    DawnMcCandless  1 day ago

    Glad I’m not the only one getting the reformation clue. Growing up in a Lutheran school that song was grilled every October.

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    delennwen  1 day ago

    OT: life sucks like a roomba

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    Sue Ellen  1 day ago

    I hope the mother ship doesn’t erase all the footage. I want Burt to be able to view it and confirm the story told by the littles and Lupin. Even if they erase all trace, Burt can probably figure out that the erasure occurred and try to prevent future attacks that turn adults into sleepers or zombies. (Wearing a metal colander as a hat, perhaps?)

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    diskus Premium Member 1 day ago

    Unfortunately before we can develop reasonable Artificial Intelligence we would first need to develop human intelligence. Save us Tortimer!!!

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    BarbaraKrooss  1 day ago

    I sure hope this is all a dream… or a heater—campfire tale..

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    bryan42  1 day ago

    common-sense reasonable laws? The Roombas don’t know humanity very well, do they??? :) :) :)

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    mistercatworks  1 day ago

    As a former IT guy, I’m appalled (what if everybody’s Roomba decided to upload is own revised world view?). However, I do applaud the sentiment and the wakeup call. If you have seen what generative AI can do with video, it’s clear that the world will be a fundamentally different place in the next decades.

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    fuzzybritches  1 day ago

    Folks, in an amazing coiky-dink, this popped into my instagram feed the other day . . .

    www.instagram.Com / p / DB3qMCKCBtR/

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    emiesty2  1 day ago

    OT update on sister

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    Red Bird  1 day ago

    Farewell, alien Roombas and Tortimer! Good luck saving our world from AI.

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member 1 day ago

    I love this, Georgia!!! ❤️

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    willie_mctell  1 day ago

    AI was designed by humans. I think that’s the problem.

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    User18942  1 day ago

    Vacuum soldiers arise!

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    CatherinePrickett  1 day ago

    Here I thought it would be something like Glaze or Nightshade, tools artists can use to mess up generative AI programs.

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    erinurse2000  1 day ago

    And I sang that like The Muppet show theme song.

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