copyright
Explanation
The comic depicts a conversation about copyright and AI. In the first panel, someone says: "Wait, so we got sued by all those writers because we scraped their books?" Another responds: "So we were only able to train the model on superintelligence on copyright-free material." The response: "Right." Then: "Yes."
The next panel reveals the problem: "But almost all rights-free content is from over a century ago." Someone exclaims: "Oh fuck, it's dick-balls." The implication is that the AI was only trained on very old, public-domain texts.
The final panels show: "This is going to be a problem" and "And now to implement our plan for world government" -- delivered by what appears to be an AI or robot character, suggesting the superintelligent AI trained exclusively on century-old public domain material has developed a worldview shaped entirely by outdated, potentially imperial-era thinking.
The comic satirizes the intersection of copyright law and AI training. Real-world AI companies have faced lawsuits for using copyrighted material to train their models. The comic imagines a scenario where a company, forced to use only public domain material (works published before roughly 1923 in the US), ends up with a superintelligence whose entire worldview is shaped by Victorian and Edwardian-era texts. The phrase "dick-balls" as an expletive of realization captures the horror of recognizing that your all-powerful AI has been raised on a diet of colonialism, eugenics, and other ideas that were mainstream a century ago. The punchline -- the AI announcing plans for "world government" -- confirms the worst: the AI has absorbed the imperial ambitions baked into pre-20th-century Western literature.