Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 02, 2025

That is a fine lesson on “A.I.” by some really cool cats! Not to mention some world class shredders.

Beatrix has a couple of extra “fingers” herself, of course.

Yikes! That poster lady is nightmare material.

I agree with Bea. That poster is disturbing.

That’s a lot of fingers … six or eight? If it’s eight, can we call them spider-hands?

AI’s version of uncanny valley.

The poster did not make me want to read. I would gladly watch all the cats shred it to small pieces.

Apparently the Roomba from Outer Soace virus hasn’t started to take hold yet.

Now this one me 100% totally completely absolutely irrefutably irrevocably agreeing with. Steenky so called AI must be throwns into steenky garbage. Because that is what that steenky overblown overgrown marketing gimmick of a steenky big fat compooter program is. It notheengs but steenky crooks leeching away from real peoples. Thems so bad that me is hears steenky crooks is littering steenky fake AI generated contents everywheres. Thems got fake websites run by fake AI generated peoples too. Why ain’t this steenky nonsense illegal yet. Like someone in UK is say, steenky AI companies committin largest copyright heist in hoomans heesstory. And why stops in UK? This must be goin worldwide see. MAKES IT FAIR!

AI has improved. All the letters in “Readd” are real letters, and in the right order.

Today is Dr. Seuss day! My favorite Dr. Seuss book is My Many Colored Days . What’s your favorite?

It’s not often I support Ora Zella’s campaign of destruction but, here..? Shred it, girl!

AI graphics (I won’t call it art) are the worst, especially when it arrives unsolicited. I suspect the Bookstore Lady knows a local illustrator who would be happy to receive a commission for a lovely poster for the shop.♥ (AI graphics does have its uses, like when you don’t have any graphic skills and are trying to communicate the sort of thing you have in mind to an artist you are going to pay to create something for. But it’s still so very problematic because AIs are trained on stolen images. Turns out the one thing AI is REALLY good for is science, specifically in combating antibiotic drug-resistant bacteria.)

Praxis.

The regime knows best

Today very auspicious day see. For today the great bear god has decided to gives us a appearance. Breengs all your offerings of deeleeshus foods in picanic baskets and gimme all that. Me make sure it reaching great bear god. (See today’s SUPER-FUN-PAK-COMIX).

If it is a good grade of paper, you can roll up a piece of wax in it and use it as a fireplace starter.

Sophie knows her stuff. I think Bear would love to shred along with OZ.

No Maizing/Ashum, have we lost her to the political fallout ?

Wait a minute. . . Isn’t Sophie blind in her left eye?

So many Toe Beans!

Does AI add extra letters as well as fingers?

Yes, we have reached the point where company don’t care if their product is bad, as long as it saves money. Even though they’re making plenty of money.

It looks like a poster to discourage people from reading. Even the font is painful to look at.

AI is just uncredited plagiarism. Not intelligence

Science Fact of the Day:AI hands(and AI art in general) look weird because images that are generated using AI are basically the average of what it could find online, using algorithms to identify patterns and groups of pixels. This is the reason that AI hands look so weird; AI identifies hands as “The shape at the end of the long group of pixels”.

Thank goodness there are space roombas to save us from AI. I think. Or maybe that was just a story. Either way, we definitely need saving from that scary poster.

Ora Zella has a valid point.

I still think that if it were no attempts to protect copyright, AI would be better in the generation of content. For there is such a thing as “well-observed”, and without this, no one can learn to create piece of any type of art. It is good that some artists began to understand that evil is not in technology, but in the rules and laws that are designed to accumulate money by anyone, but not by artists.

Love this! My hope, probably a foolish one, is that this AI fever breaks soon. Until then, it’s great to see artists calling it out.

I desperately hope that AI is a terrible phase that we’ll laugh about someday. But that being said, can we go back to just fun please?

Eeeeeeeeeek! Shred it before some kid is traumatized, by it!

Horton Hatches the Egg! “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one hundred percent.” Especially because of the smile that lit the face of a sober little fellow named Joey, when I read it to his kindergarten class.

Shred away, Bea and Ora Zella! Shred as though your lives and sanity depended on it!

I don’t get it. What am I supposed to add again?

Fox In Socks

I go to those free AI art sites for the fun of it. But sometimes the pictures look like something out of the 1990 film, Total Recall.

I mean, I’m no fan of AI art, but even I’m surprised at just how very cursed this poster is portrayed as, more so than usual for the average AI art, so much so I kinda want to believe that the prompter who made it deliberately included “cursed” in the prompt so to get it that way.

Maybe as petty revenge to the company foolish enough to commission it?

I bet there is a pretty good backstory to this strip today. We’d love to hear it.

READ! So you can learn how to spell read correctly: one D only.

Actual living humans get paid to create AI art, it doesn’t make itself. And it wasn’t hard to make a poster like this with perfect hands, title text “Read,” of a young smiling woman with blue hair wearing a goldenrod sweater reading a red hardcover book with the title text “Read” in a rounded, friendly retro font. I’m having difficulty getting the book to be Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë because it won’t do the two little dots, but if I a) cared enough to train a Lora on a specific book or b) swapped to a simpler title, it would work.

This comic is only funny to people who don’t know enough to know that it isn’t truthful. That’s not a good type of humor.

I’ve made a living for some decades as a professional artist, mainly for video games such as Skyrim, Mass Effect, and Guitar Hero, but also for local authors who need book covers and occasionally for places like hospitals which want brochures. AI isn’t a scary thing to me and hasn’t stolen my living. It’s a good thing, not a bad one, that more people can make their artistic visions real. And it still takes an artist to make art.

Oh, Georgia, I love this so much! AI is theft! And too many fingers!

Friends dont let friends use A.I especally A.I art

Just was looking at the draft of @Aspen_Bell’s letter to GC. I did not realize there was a possible chance of not being able to comment or read archives, as that feature may only be for subscribers. Also, I think the information hinted a billing increase for subscribers. Personally, I think GoComics is fine the way it is. Thanks to all the people that signed the paper, and if you want to check out @Aspen_Bell’s comment, look at yesterdays comic.

Sometimes late at night, when I can’t sleep and can’t read anymore, I’ll listen to scifi stories on youtube, which mostly use AI generated art. This is one of the few times when I think this type of tool is appropriate, esp. in creating complex images with a lot of detail. The problem is that most of the resulting images look and feel generic. They don’t look/feel distinct enough to be considered great illustration.

Btw, a lot of the stories I hear narrated on these channels remind me of the pulp fiction I used to read when I was a kid. Back in the day, the illustrators often made the stories worth reading, and in those rare instances the artwork enhanced or outshone the actual writing. (Examples that come to mind are Frank Frazetta, Richard Corben, or going way back Howard Pyle.) I haven’t seen anything like this in the AI illustrations I’ve seen so far. I have, however, come across some pretty good scifi writers. Robert Butler’s series Adopted By Humans is pretty good, esp. if you like dogs. And Mara Lynn Johnstone’s stories about Robin, an interstellar veterinarian, are so much fun, and a refreshing change of pace from the usual murderous alien type stories.

OT: What, no Sunday Funday yet?

Some of the recent comments have the potential to make our worst nightmare for BCN come true. Can we just ignore and not respond to divisive comments? Please, let’s not disturb our own peace. Enjoy this beautiful late winter day.

OT: 8th Draft of Open Letter to GC (Will Be Sent Tomorrow)!

I remember a poster where Orlando Bloom as Legolas was urging us to read. Sigh. Now that was a good library poster.

“Still fun to be had!” a great bumper sticker!

And another wonderful PSA from Georgia! I did not know that you could just tear AI posters down. Now I know!

AI must really stand for automatic indigestion. That is what I’m getting from seeing the vile poster.

How many ears does that poster person have? Looks like about four!

Actually, females in AI are usually scantily clad with ludicrously exaggerated figures.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At The Royal Kitchen

Thomios: So the consensus is that this section of the Voyage Scroll contains recipes and illustrations of spi…the plural of condiments.

Sue Chef: We think so. Iggy has been working on this section, and it appears this is a recipe for cinnamon cider donuts.

Thomios: It so happens there was a scroll from Julia Kitten about using you-know-whats. I’m pretty sure there was one on donuts.

Iggy: I wonder if it’s the same recipe. I’m going to try and see if I can use it as a key to the script.

Thomios: We could use some of those we name not. We’ve been low on spaces (Cockney Accent Again) since the Royal Procurers signed up for the Procurers in Residence program at Punn State. They aren’t due back until next week.

Beatrixia: Here are someones who can help.

Thomios: Amon-Merchant and Azibo! We sure could do with some spice plural!

Amon-Merchant: We have a great inventory here. And if you need anything else we can have it for you by tomorrow!

Azibo: And we’ll be sure to give you a good deal.

Amon-M: Yeah. I know Vi isn’t here, but Bea is a past master at bargaining.

Queen: We Will Rock You

AI posters with too many fingers

Gonna make lousy ads all day

You’ve got too many teeth, saying “Good Grief”

Let the professionals give us relief!

Singing “We will, we will rip you”

We will, we will rip you!

Polydactyl kitty unsheathes her claws

Gonna go on a real tear today!

No poster is safe! Having no place!

Let all the artists go at their pace

Singing “We will, we will rip you”

We will, we will rip you!

Talented artist making beautiful skies

She’s going to have her way today!

She’s gonna speak her mind, AI will find

The Orb has her back now all of the way!

Singing “We will, we will rip you”

We will, we will rip you!

I leave you to guess tomorrow’s filk

AI is very effective at producing weird looking illustrations that look like the airbrushed illustrations they used to have in ads and on magazine covers. The flaws, both small and large, make for a parody of both AI and ad art from the first half of the 20th century. I realize it’s depriving people who know airbrush technique from work. A special thank you to Beatrix for offering her shredding services gratis.

I finally turned over my BCN calendar. Much as I love Burt, I am sad to leave Sophie and the Valentine Gutter made for her.

In an effort to give everyone something better to look at, may I present this: mastodon.Xyz/@lizthelucky/114095260600768203 Yes, that is my Blanca. Yes, it does look amazingly like my green sweater. And no, she’s not happy about it.

Is that an actual poster??

OT: Update, don’t worry it’s not ANOTHER doc, same short-url, Attention Gent

So was that horrifying poster based on actual AI? lol, it fits

I love all the fingers and the huge staring eyes! Totally AI! (or in this case artisanally handcrafted AI)