The Future of Magic

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

@davidrevoy thanks for actually drawing this and not slopping it all over my feed unlike other people, ur appreciated :)

@angelthorns Thank you 💜 I try to record all of them, they take me two day (and long day, from morning to very late) to produce. Here is a small timelapse for this one: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/029.mp4

I collect all of them here https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/ (but I need to make a better page for displaying them, of course! On my todo)

@davidrevoy
Awesome and hilarious.

@ddnnacheta Thanks!

@davidrevoy Not sure what's "Fantasy" about this. 😉

@alxndr 😆 😆 😆

@davidrevoy I'm loving this mini series. The need for cash investment in education vs compromising on tech is a very real problem.
I've had a thought - Familiars are meant to form a special bond with a magic user to help guide them along their own unique path. If they all have the same familiar then, even if it did work, that would really hurt their culture overall. It would become too homogeneous.

@LonM Thank you!

I see, I'll have to look on the reality of how users are 'customizing their AI' (maybe with a general pre-prompt list) and the problematic behind it. It can be a good topic for a comic strip or two with this Gothic Sorceress and her AI Parrot. Thank you for sharing the idea.

@davidrevoy on the one hand it's hard to gauge exactly *what* is broken about that world without any sort of reference point as to what it's supposed to do

on the other, the more i look at it the more respect i have for how you managed to deliberately capture so many little "SFF AI slop picture" tropes and stylisms 💀

@davidrevoy a friend of a friend is a student at Cornell and going through exactly this right now (and working on transferring out of their dream college) they shared a document where the administration defended their AI policies and in the defense cite "AI Copilot" output as their source. I'm kinda disappointed I'm not seeing some malicious compliance source checking where they apply the same battery of checking sources one would to citations of obscure books for made up Wikipedia edits. Would an AI model be a primary or secondary source?

@trainguyrom True, thanks to this mini series I started to document myself a bit more on AI (before that, I was just skipping every details about it). Pushing it in the schools, in the enterprises too ; is a real thing, with people in charge convinced they'll do profit, or accelerate production this way...
About the sources, I wrote something on this topic, maybe for next week. I see more and more LLMs trying to quote their sources; wikipedia article or webpage (eg. Mistral recently).

@apophis @davidrevoy The little deformed mastodon logos tickled me pink, hehehe.

@davidrevoy I love these comics. I always love seeing how the Avian Intelligence story progresses.

@VANTABlack2000 Thank you!

@davidrevoy I guess I would call it vibe casting

@aismallard Yes, I was hesitant with the wording. Vibe Spelling VS Vibe Casting. Not sure the one who would have been closer to "vibe coding".

@davidrevoy @aismallard : "Vibe casting" is only used when speaking about a few very good C programmers.

@tth @aismallard 🤣

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Your artwork has one grave mistake: It's still too beautiful. ​​

@sin Thank you!

@davidrevoy please let's just all go back to the original book of spells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs

#SICP #lisp #scheme #programming

@eruwero Thank you very much for this reference, I had no idea it existed. It sounds very interesting, I'll try to get a physical copy. I also love it is CC BY SA licensed, and so totally compatible with the Mini Fantasy Theater series if I decide to back-port a fictive character name.

@davidrevoy oh right !! Spelling as in casting a spell, not spelling a word... Took me a while...

@phbarre Yes, finding solid wording for that was nearly impossible. It's probably not the best. Maybe I should have gone with "Vibe Coding, I call it." directly.

@davidrevoy @eruwero

"In retrospective, this lead to what is now called the 'Great Chasm' in Revoy's work, exposing a large audience to the exploits of Eva Lu Ator and the horrors and wonders of Lisp..."

@wakame @eruwero 🤣

(I just checked the online price for a physical version; above 50€ and for the French version, above 60€; I'll probably read the PDF in the wiki on my e-reader then :D)

@lazy @aismallard That sounds poetic 💜

@davidrevoy @phbarre Pff, all you had to do was to ask a LLM for what the best wording would be. 😛 Don’t you know about Vibe Joke-Writing?

@dgouttegattat @phbarre 😆 😆

@davidrevoy Was it fun to draw a random AI world where nothing makes sense?

@fell It was 😆 But it was surprisingly an interesting exercice too, far away the usual color palette I enjoy using. You can check the painting timelapse to see the hesitations: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/029.mp4

@davidrevoy "Our investor say". 👀 An investor by the name of … »Sauron« maybe? 😬

@ojelabii 🤣

@davidrevoy
Haha vibe spelling 🤣