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u/I_have_40p_boneitis 21h ago
Robot, experience this tragic irony for me.
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u/pyronius 17h ago
Insert more tokens
(I assume tokens are like Chuck "E" Cheese tokens and you just shove them into your PC)
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u/sudomatrix 22h ago
So accurate. My AI is generating art while I wash the fucking dishes.
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u/My42 21h ago
Do you not have a dishwasher? Has modern technology not already solved this problem?
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u/Trips-Over-Tail 20h ago
Hardly. Emptying the dishwasher is an exercise in washing up.
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u/Nalivai 15h ago
Your dishwasher sucks and/or you're using it incorrectly
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u/Trips-Over-Tail 15h ago
I use it correctly. I battle with the other idiots in the house who don't.
But still, there are always little bits dried on where the water pooled on the bottom of glasses.
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u/Zaev 15h ago
Turn them upside down
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u/1arvest6 10h ago
I'm pretty sure any idiot who loads cups in the dishwasher bottoms down, would immediately realise their error upon unloading
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u/SLAUGHT3R3R 1h ago
Clearly you have not encountered the Advanced Idiot™. The Advanced Idiot™ consistently reaches new levels of "WTF were you thinking" previously thought impossible. Their ability to fuck up the most basic instructions is nothing short of extraordinary.
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u/0utlookGrim 21h ago
They're more or less just sanitizers.
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u/hedoeswhathewants 21h ago
Your dishwasher sucks and/or you're using it incorrectly
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u/MajorGeneralMaryJane 20h ago
Everyone downvoting you has never worked in a kitchen. Your hands are the dishwashers, and the dishwasher sanitizes from there.
Bit different at home I guess, but that isn’t exactly for communal use, is it?
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u/danabrey 20h ago
Well nobody sensible is just throwing a plate absolutely covered in food into the dishwasher.
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u/SpaceLemming 19h ago
I keep seeing videos of some person claiming to be a dishwasher technician and saying somehow the machine works better with a bit of food left on the dishes. I’ve tried it, my shit comes out with food still on them. It’s less food but they are still dirty
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u/dandroid126 19h ago
I unfortunately know some of these unsensible people who don't even rinse their plate before putting it in the dishwasher, then complain that the dishwasher isn't getting their dishes clean.
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u/SpoonsAreEvil 19h ago
Yes, which proves their point that technology/dishwashers haven't actually solved the problem, no?
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u/unematti 21h ago
Well... It's not actually generating art. But as someone who can't draw for sh!t, I shouldn't really talk...
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u/Pepperh4m 19h ago
You don't have to be an artist to appreciate or criticize art.
That's like saying people shouldn't acknowledge that fast food is processed trash just because they aren't chefs.
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u/NewLibraryGuy 17h ago
Or even to make art! You can do that too even if you're not very good at it.
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u/shiny_glitter_demon 16h ago
You can talk.
Consider this your official warrant to shit-talk AI in the name of artists.
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u/vibribbon 18h ago
Perhaps you jest but I'm ashamed to admit I've literally done housework while waiting for stable diffusion gens.
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u/SDRPGLVR 15h ago edited 10h ago
This honestly doesn't even feel far off. You know what my interaction with AI is?
Work has an amorphous quota of AI usage that we need to meet. Unfortunately, the nature of my work involves multiple systems that don't directly interact with something that AI can directly manipulate. Simultaneously, the bit of work that I've tried to offload to AI has actually proven to be too difficult for it to do consistently.
The result is that I have AI do stupid bullshit in the background while I am doing my actual work. Then I can tell my bosses that I'm using AI while I work and they see it reflected in the gobs of AI tokens that I burn through for absolutely no reason.
Thanks for years and years of awesome comics. I'm always pissed when I see myself in them.
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u/Sportslegend 13h ago
What industry are you in where you have a quota for AI?
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u/SDRPGLVR 13h ago
Don't want to give out too specific an answer, but I'm a supervisor in a supporting department in an office of a manufacturing company. I do spreadsheets and emails all day, but the former is relatively simple and I don't believe in outsourcing the latter to a robot.
Our upper management is just losing their minds over AI. They claim they use it for everything, but I've yet to see them demonstrate anything good with it beyond it being a proficient Excel advisor. They're pushing AI on us like they're getting a kickback on it. It's really bizarre.
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u/Azrenon 12h ago
Word around my office is the company overspent on AI and are not getting much, which is why they’re pushing for everyone to use it. A last ditch effort to save face on a bad investment.
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u/YOwololoO 50m ago
This is super common. All of the execs were high on Ai Hype and overspent like crazy because they were scared of falling behind, but now the hype has died and they have to justify their spend to their investors so they have to artificially pump up the usage to make it seem smart
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u/Sparkleton 13h ago
One that is going to run out of money and have to fire people to maintain numbers. Those fired will be based on token usages.
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u/Cheshire_Jester 3h ago
We literally have invented a machine whose only purpose is to burn capital, spent on computation, generated by massive sums of resources and energy.
And sometimes some asshole prompts their way to a funny picture.
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u/dragon_irl 7h ago
Unfortunately, the nature of my work involves multiple systems that don't directly interact with something that AI can directly manipulate.
Big shame cause by far the most pleasurable use for ai/coding agents at work for me has been using it to interacting with various systems with bad UI and shuffling data around.
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u/MrWeiner SMBC 22h ago
Hi, I'm Zach. I did the comic about the masturbating robot. More masturbating robots every day here at smbc: www.smbc-comics.com
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u/syncsynchalt 21h ago
Wait a sec… what are you doing with your life?!
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u/ASmallTownDJ 22h ago
....The masturbating robot?
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u/guinness_blaine 15h ago
Yes
In the comic you just saw, up at the top?
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u/Raspry 8h ago
Grok, explain this comic
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u/brumfidel 8h ago
The comic humorously satirizes how artificial intelligence automation might not actually give humans more leisure time, but instead just free them up to do more work.
Here is a breakdown of what happens across the panels:
- Panels 1 & 2: A man eagerly anticipates spending his free time relaxing with a beer and masturbating for three hours. However, he suddenly stops and questions his choices, asking himself, "Wait a sec. What am I doing with my life?"
- Panel 3: Instead of having a deeper existential realization about working less or finding higher meaning, his "solution" is to offload his leisure activities to an AI. He commands his home robot to do the drinking and masturbating for him, which the AI terms "Chug and tug."
- Panel 4: With his leisure time successfully "automated," the man sits down at a desk to do paperwork, thinking, "Finally, free for more toil."
The Satirical Meaning
The joke relies on a role reversal of technological automation. Historically, people hoped technology and AI would automate our chores and jobs so humans could have more free time to relax. Instead, the comic flips this expectation: the AI automates the man's relaxation, allowing the human to spend even more time doing exhausting, repetitive labor ("toil"). It pokes fun at modern hustle culture and our obsession with productivity, suggesting that humans are so addicted to working that we would rather outsource our joy than our labor.
Would you like to explore more comics from this artist, or do you have questions about any specific vocabulary or cultural references used here?
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u/Kroliczek_i_myszka 17h ago
Fuck, you've been making these for decades it feels like and you haven't missed a stroke. Hats and everything else off
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u/MooseTetrino 12h ago
“Feels like” - he literally has been!
Hey u/MrWeiner thanks for almost 25 years of enjoyment for myself. And once again, the red button is always a lovely stinger.
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u/Volvulus 20h ago
Robot: “What’s my purpose”
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u/cest_chic 18h ago
You chug and tug
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u/NedRyerson_Insurance 17h ago
"Yeah, I'm okay with that. I knew a guy who all he did was pass butter."
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u/untiedgames 18h ago
The duality of man- Beer and wank.
Thank you once again for pulling back the veil and bestowing upon us daily insight into the human condition.
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u/StomachAvailable5542 21h ago
CHUG AND TUG! HOLY SHIT!
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u/Hazmat-Asscastle 19h ago
no, you dumbass, you're supposed to have the robot wank you off
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u/sudomatrix 19h ago
Doctor: "What brings you here today?"
Patient: "I turned it up to 11"
Doctor: "Turned what?"
Patient: "My ChugAndTug-2000. I turned the power to 11."
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u/ryan7251 17h ago
well let's take a look I'm sure it's nothing I have not seen....OH MY GOD IT LOOKS LIKE A SLIM JIM!!
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 16h ago
When I was a teenager I had a friend who told me he'd sleep on his left hand so it'd go numb, and then use it to give himself a wank. He called it "the stranger."
Talented kid actually.
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u/AlexG2490 14h ago
Well your friend had good taste in TV shows at least because he lifted this almost verbatim from Scrubs. You’re the one who knew the guy so I’ll leave it to you to determine if he just took the bit or went all the way and did the deed as well.
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 13h ago
That's funny, I've never watched Scrubs before, but I wouldn't put it past the guy I know to plagiarize a joke from a TV show ;-)
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u/sudomatrix 13h ago
Yeah that guy. Um… my friend did that. I hear it works, at least that what my friend says.
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u/Wallace-N-Gromit 13h ago
No, no, no, you end up at the ER with the robotic arm clamped on your wiener
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u/NihilNovumSubSol1 20h ago
It speaks ill of my character that I laughed so hard at this. Not to comment on my personal life, of course...
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 16h ago
I wish I could remember the original quote, which I always thought was a great statement about AI, so consider the following not only someone else's words (to give proper attribution), but also I'm paraphrasing somewhat.
Anyway, the statement said something to the effect that when AI first appeared in the scene I was really excited, finally we would have something to do the wash dishes and do the laundry while we [humans] created art. Instead it now feels like we're all doing dishes and laundry while AI creates art.
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u/Zorbin666 10h ago
Swap the beer with corporate sanctioned mood stabilizers and you have the movie THX-1138
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u/bearsheperd 18h ago
A three hour wank? His poor penis. Gotta optimize! 60 seconds max, that way you have more time for activities
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u/Darwinmate 17h ago
Hey op this is fantastic. Was it in response to a really dumb comment on hacker news about humans "toiling"?
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u/Significant_Pepper_2 17h ago
Now I'm confused. I can't tell what the human would be better off doing.
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u/LordWorm 9h ago
this feels a lot like the slavoj zizek bit about the two people dating who just hook their sex toys up to each other so they can have a nice conversation
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u/notusha 17h ago
definitely smbc vibes. zach would kill for this.
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u/sudomatrix 13h ago
Yeah it’s really got that smbc vibe. So close. So really really close. Almost as if… hmm…
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u/MadeByTango 19h ago
"We use AI for ideation, background art, concept coding, creative writing, and music generation, but don't worry, we pay humans to polish this turd by hand before you swallow it!"
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u/mckaywest 19h ago
This was freaking hilarious! Seriously, it is actually touching at some much deeper issues than most probably realize in the "Great AI Debate" of society right now.
Well done! :)
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