AI
Explanation
Titled "How AI Reporting Works," this comic depicts a person commanding a computer: "Okay computer! Having scanned all of human literature, make a novel, extraordinary assertion!"
The computer responds with "GIBBERISH!" across multiple panels -- producing nothing but nonsense repeatedly. In one panel, the computer says "PEOPLE LIKE ME" and the person responds "OH MY GOD!"
The final panel shows a newspaper headline: "MACHINE INTELLIGENCE COMPREHENDS HUMAN DESIRES!" with a subheadline suggesting this changes everything.
The comic satirizes how AI and machine learning are reported in the media. The joke is that an AI system mostly produces meaningless output (gibberish), but the moment it accidentally generates something that sounds vaguely meaningful -- "people like me" -- humans seize on it as proof of genuine intelligence or understanding. The media then amplifies this cherry-picked result into a sensational headline. The comic critiques both the tendency of AI researchers/promoters to over-interpret random outputs and the eagerness of journalists to write breathless stories about artificial intelligence "breakthroughs" that are really just pattern-matching flukes. The phrase "people like me" is deliberately ambiguous: it could mean "people enjoy me" or "people similar to me," but in either reading, it's being wildly over-interpreted.