mountweazel
Explanation
This comic plays on the concept of a "Mountweazel" -- a deliberately fictitious entry inserted into a reference work (like a dictionary or encyclopedia) as a copyright trap to catch plagiarists. The term comes from Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, a fake biographical entry in the 1975 New Columbia Encyclopedia.
In the comic, a character expresses worry that their art will be used to train machine learning models, who will then mass-produce derivative work without crediting or even acknowledging the original artist. Another character suggests a clever solution: hide ultra-obscure terms like "Mountweazel" in your work, and then check if AI-generated content reproduces those terms -- thereby proving the AI was trained on your work.
The final panel delivers the punchline when the first character asks if this is really just "about straightforward plagiarism detection," and the second character responds that it would also be "guaranteed exciting" -- suggesting the real appeal is the thrill of catching AI systems red-handed rather than any practical enforcement mechanism. The comic satirizes both the genuine anxieties artists have about AI training on their work and the somewhat quixotic nature of trying to fight it.