Transcript
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1: The gothic sorceress, dressed in dark, flowing robes, stands in the middle of a desolated land. She gazes at the colorful mechanical parrot flying near her shoulder: the Avian Intelligent Parrot. The sorceress asks with a hint of curiosity.
Gothic sorceress: “Hey, Avian Intelligence, what’s the incantation for summoning a fireball?”
AI Parrot: “:sparkle emoji: The correct incantation for a fireball is “IgnisMe”.”
Panel 2: The gothic sorceress cracks a wicked smile, her eyes shining with anticipation as she raises her hands in front of her, fingers spread and ready to cast.
Gothic sorceress: “Alright, let’s give it a shot… IgnisMe!”
Panel(small insert in previous panel): Only the eyes of the gothic sorceress are visible in a large flame.
Gothic sorceress: “?!!”
Panel 3: The gothic sorceress is burnt, her face contorted in a mix of shock, anger, and pain. Flames and smoke dance around her, her dark robes burnt and tattered, revealing exposed parts of her anatomy.
Gothic sorceress: “You #*$%@& bird! You gave me a self-immolation spell instead of a fireball spell!”
Panel 4: As the sorceress facepalms, the Avian Intelligent parrot replies with stoicism.
AI Parrot: “:sparkle emoji: You’re absolutely right! The correct incantation for a fireball is “PyroBolus”.”
Minor quibble, but that dress is very https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FormFittingWardrobe
I guess it’s supposed to be fantasy parody, though.
She tries the second one and sets herself on fire again. She complains, and the AI apologises again and says that the correct spell is the first one…
Always check what your AI is telling you. After all, it’s in the name: Avian, bird-brained.
She didn’t check the cited source.
Edit: it’s really going to fall apart when wrong AI cites wrong AI citing a wrong source.
Always check the grimoire.
No IGNISU
Her fault for using AI in the first place.
As has been established in the previous strip, that’s what her school provides instead of familiars. She wasn’t happy about it back then and it doesn’t look like her opinion is going to change anytime soon.
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Okay, but why is there a self-immolation spell in the first place?
It’s for when you want to be one with the fireball. There is nothing more badass than going out in a literal blaze of glory.
Fire resist + Self immolate = Hugs of Death!
You literally cannot convince me this guy doesn’t also draw porn. There’s just something about the art style…
Edit: oh my, this is a independent, less serious line.
Horny bastard…😆
Is it the bird?
What that beak do?
Cringe…
The cross eyed look is a huge tell.
The guy literally shares the “source files” for his open source for his comics (krita, inkscape, etc), plus all the information about how it’s drawn. I also suspected AI but it’s likely just his style; like the use of em dashes w/ LLMs.
Too bad even with all the documentation, it’s tough to trust people now.
Does he have them for this one? Usually that site is pretty good and I haven’t seen it make a mistake yet. The eyes in the first and third panel are really off, which happens a lot with AI generated comics.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a false positive, but it did strike me as AI generated before I even put it in the detector.
I’m on mobile right now so I can’t check the krita file itself but I was able to download it from the link OP posted (you need to click a link further down on the page that says source).
It wouldn’t be the first time someone’s looks like AI, though. It’s a hallmark of digital art, and AI has to have trained off something, too
Tbh, I don’t even know how to use krita, I wouldn’t know where to start to get the history.
Those eyes are really off though, especially in the third panel. I’m guessing it isn’t AI if he gave the files though. It would be quite elaborate if he somehow spoofed the history, seems too intense of a job for a simple comic. You are probably right.
Edit: Man, the more I look at it, the worst it looks. The parrots face changes, its left eye changes position and color by the time it reaches the last panel. Actually looks precisely like the kind of perspective error an AI would make. The second panel, where her arm and necklace meet, has some weird stuff going on as well. The age of paranoia.
I grade papers. It really is the age of paranoia, lol.
I’m not pointing out AI use, just a derpy expression. Get out of here with your charts.
Derpy expressions (especially the weird side eye in the third panel) is a sign of AI generation. Sorry if I misunderstood, but you did only post the picture tbh. The detector might be wrong though.
You’ve got AI on your brain to an unhealthy degree.
Would you be more critical if the comic didn’t say what you liked, or do you just assume nothing on the internet is AI generated?
I don’t particularly like the comic. I had a good chuckle when I saw the expression, that’s it.
I’m a bit ambivalent about it. It’s clever how it uses the Gemini star symbol and a parrot (referencing the popular paper that came out a while ago). But the humour is really simple and it didn’t really get a laugh out of me. Nice style and details though.
Her eyes are different in the last one.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2025/2025-11-19_en_027_minifantasytheater.jpg
So pixelated I can’t read the words.
I’m seeing the same thing in Summit, I had to open the link to read the comic. Not sure why you’re being downvoted tbh.
People are down voting but it’s true for me too on Jerboa.
This is how it looks on Voyager
Weird, I’m in Voyager on fast internet and it’s super pixelated for me. Going to the link looks great, but Voyager looks like it’s trying to load a thumbnail as a full size image.
Looks fine on my end
Are you sure it’s not slow internet which resulted in the photo to not finish loading?
Gave it plenty of time to load on my gigabit internet.
That’s weird. I tried https://old.lemmy.today/post/42532735
And even inspecting the page source (on Firefox), all I get is an embed of the ibb.co image.
You got served a lemmy.today cache image though… Are you on mobile, by chance? Or using any non default configs/extensions?
Which client?
Just using firefox and old.lemmy
Odd, does not do that for me.
But it could be an extension or flag requesting a bandwidth optimized image.
This one is fine for me, but I’ve had others with the same issue. I assumed it was a quirk in the app I use (Boost).
Click image, Top right click HD. Boost tries to save bandwidth on some images but I haven’t noticed a real trend behind what images it chooses to downscale or not.
Thanks, I’ll try that next time I see one.
Yhea my boost sometimes also seem to make things blurry. Dowloading it does show it is a clear one. But I didn’t had problems with this one
Same here
Same in Jerboa and I’ve never had this happen before
Same in Sync
Is that Pepper? Where is carrot!?
This is Goth Witch, from his side series.
Thank you! Didn’t know he had a side series.
“It’s a known issue”
