Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for April 12, 2024

Goodbye villainy

Adam is going to need a big pizza or a date night.

Wanna bet some other hack will dig up the deleted file, and publish the novel under his own name, which becomes a Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller??

I like his stunned look!!!!

Whatever company made that … made it too sentient.

Yeah well rowlings a terf so…

Couldn’t he just have submitted it to the publisher as “Written by Adam Newman, as inspired by AI” or something like that?

I wish I could push a button and make all AI go away like that.

So, is AI writing this strip now?

Tomorrow we learn about the restore function.

Feh. Tech is always over-promising. How little RAM did Windows run in?

I’m sorry Dave.

Rob should have had the AI singing “Daisy” as it faded out

Cloud storage?

AI can write sentences, but at this point it cannot make a coherent comment. AI cannot think like a human…yet.

Open the Pod Bay Door, HAL.

So be it Adam….start using your own imagination…………

Too smart for its own good.

For educators and publishers et. al., AI filters are becoming a norm of acceptance. These filters can recognize that the source of the story is often the bedlam of freely sourced written materials obtained by Google from myriad public and educational libraries as Google built and launched their ebook business. Market winners and proprietary intellect losers. Authors will be able to generate new prose from their styles for ever, and then maybe and ever. Just stylin’.

They may as well have kept it. By the time that book made it through two stages of editing, it would not have resembled the original creation anyway, and the AI would have gotten so depressed it would have taken to drink. Two birds, one stone. And, bonus, Adam and fam would have college and retirement funds for everyone in the house!

However, there may be a good story he can write about this experience. :)

OMG, Laura, why didn’t you print it out???

Well, that was stupid. Publish the book, list AI as the author and explain the deal in a forward, and pocket the profits.

Shades of HAL; cue Richard Wagner’s “Also Sprake Zarathustra”.

Better watch out, the program will come back and write the greatest novel in the history of people kind. It lives….