@momo Sorry if you dislike my current series of comic strip about this Gothic Sorceress and her AI Parrot. It's not here to praise AI at all, btw, but a series to show the issues with it ( this one is 'over agreement', last one was about fake sources generation, before about Vibe Coding, before about false statement, etc...)
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
The biggest AI companies deserve to have the wind let out of their sails.
The energy consumption and environmental impact are direct costs, but it may be the societal effects of people making decisions on totally faulty data that may be the most insidious damage.
Children who are raised by these things won't know how to think.
@momo Ok, i can understand you totally. I have no problem with it being everywhere but i criticize the lack of being able to turn it off more frustrating. My hope is that maybe some of the comics may instill some critical thinking about it in some people. That's what i meant with 'more of that'.
@elosha Thank you! And about the teapot-shaped moon; it is a classic in the Pepper & Carrot universe and a reference to Russell's Teapot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%…
@tehrealgh5tbusters he he, I think it will be cathartic to end this mini series on something like that, and give her the crow she wanted from the start.
@jenesuispasgoth @Sobex @tisaac Pour l'instant, il n'y a pas d'éditeur qui ont pris l'initiative d'imprimer ces petites BD, donc usage de l'imprimante encouragé!
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
@Sobex oui, j'allais dire que si des impressions de bonne qualité existent à la vente, je suis prêt à acheté, plutôt que faire un honteux détournement de bien sociaux via l'imprimante couleur du boulot. 😁
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
Yes for the Teapot, it's something from the lore of my main comic Pepper&Carrot (here are panel under), a reference to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%… 😊
@philpetree Yes, that's the concept of this series of comic strip: a metaphor of all problems of AI (using in my fantasy world this cyber Parrot named "Avian Intelligence"), check the one of the past weeks on my profile, I have one about 'sources' last week, another one about 'vibe coding', another one about false output. I hope you'll like them!
Je ferai une présentation sur IA en janvier. Mes supérieurs ne savent pas je dirai qu'il est non-sens. Et j'aimerais utiliser des BD avec la sorcière gothique pour illustrer les problèmes.
@Infrapink Merci Et c'est fait pour. D'ailleurs, si il y a d'autre problèmes que j'ai pas encore illustré, je suis preneur de thématiques!
J'ai en stock une idée sur le temps d'affichage, de generation et d'erreur et de 'retry' , et aussi une idée pour appuyer plus sur la consommation de resources comme j'avais fait avec l'Amphore d'Intélligence en septembre avant cette série. framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1151…
Yes, sycophancy in AI was the subject of my research while writing this scenario. It's amazing how many articles and papers there are on the topic. I hesitated to use the word 'syncophancy' in the title because it felt too cryptic and too specialized.
I've always found it telling that executives are far and away the biggest fans of a technology that provides mediocre results, at best, but grovels so obsequiously that it makes regular people uncomfortable.
@jargoggles True. Perhaps these executives are so accustomed to being surrounded by agreement and affirmation that they modelled this technology to respond in the same way, thinking it was normal human interaction. 😆
Really like the positivity and optimism in this one. The witch's ability to reflect on responses and to objectively recognise her semantic parrot's utility (or lack of the same) in the last panel puts her above the average parrot user. If she can do it, the co-dependent parrot zombies can too.
After our last yearly reconnection in Distant Feeling(s) We (Annie & Associação Liminal) would like to share the Distant Feelings Goodbyes 2017 – 2024 video that Daniel had been preparing before passing.
It is a beautiful piece, which showcases the moment, after every gathering, when we say goodbye to each other. Everyone can watch and download the 34 min long video, and it will only be available online until the 1st of February 2026. aabrahams.wordpress.com/2025/1…
meeting kindred souls touching out of reach After our last yearly reconnection in Distant Feeling(s) We (Annie & Associação Liminal) would like to share the Distant Feelings Goodbyes 2017 – 202…
I'm really not happy with the situation either... :( Maybe a workaround would be looking at the code and find every single url/ip that FF is supposed to call and block them in a firewall... but that's both not very casual user friendly and time consuming because if it's efficient they would just have to regularly change subdomains or whatever to make things hard.
I actually like how Firefox has handled AI - small local models, no spying to train AI on my data. For users who insist on using a mainstream online chatbot, it lets them do it without forcing it on others. (And there are more such users than I thought. People who I thought are way too computer illiterate to use AI surprised me by using ChatGPT.)
Firefox lets me translate text locally without big tech spying on my translations. Is this bad because it happens to use neural networks?
To be fair, I could paint this one quickly because I only painted the fox and the parrot over a scene that I had already painted for Reddit when they had their API change controversy back in June 2023. The artwork is hosted somewhere in this directory: peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/m…
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
@CyberPunker No cloud-based AI is enabled by default as far as I understood. Yes there are menu options but until they're configured nothing happens. And even when configured that's not working automatically but following a specific user action.
A global switch is in the making too, the plan is to ship it in February.
@julienw @CyberPunker @pmiossec @Kampfdiestel Hello ! I don't know if it can be done that easily, and I seriously doubt that it would be anyway, but what about implementing some kind of temporary welcome screen/popup in the next version with a poll about adding AI feature in FF ? That way you would have a clear view about what your user base thinks. If 75% or more is against it, then maybe avoiding such a waste of resources would be a good idea ?
@Kampfdiestel @Gynux there is (maybe) some hope with that mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdev… (and this kill switch will maybe make the job to remove it easier) but the worst thing is that (a good part of) the remaining FF devs will spend a lot of time on these features instead of improving more important things...
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
@pmiossec That's not true Philippe. We're hiring to work on these things, this means this doesn't change what the other engineers are working on. You could say that this money could be used elsewhere, sure, but still I hope this reduces your concern. @Kampfdiestel @Gynux @davidrevoy
@julienw Seeing how the AI crap already in Firefox is enabled by default and has to be disabled in about:config, no, it does not reduce my concern. Start with opt-in for the already integrated AI crap and an easy way to disable it.
There are people at Mozilla doing user research, I think they're doing a great job. I don't know if they planned such a survey. I believe there's such a thing inside Firefox, that can ask questions to a subset of the users, but I'm not so sure.
I'm not sure so far. ML has valid applications, and so far what Mozilla has brought to the table seems very reasonable to me. Most important thing for me is that everything is local and privacy friendly. And the features they have are very reasonable: An alt-text generation model makes a lot of sense for people to whom alt-texts matter. And local translation of websites also sounds like a really nice feature. As far as I see such features will make the web more accessible with better privacy.
For me the most important things are:
1. ML should be local and not send arbitrary data to shady third party services 2. ML should be build to only affect performance when you actually need it 3. ML should provide specific tools, not general purpose blackboxes
Also 4. ML should be trained in a responisble way, which means: 1. Responsible source of training data 2. Resource use of training should be justified by the benefit of the functionality
I remember the time when ML was mosty an exciting University thing, where results were shared, and not some bi
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I'm not sure so far. ML has valid applications, and so far what Mozilla has brought to the table seems very reasonable to me. Most important thing for me is that everything is local and privacy friendly. And the features they have are very reasonable: An alt-text generation model makes a lot of sense for people to whom alt-texts matter. And local translation of websites also sounds like a really nice feature. As far as I see such features will make the web more accessible with better privacy.
For me the most important things are:
1. ML should be local and not send arbitrary data to shady third party services 2. ML should be build to only affect performance when you actually need it 3. ML should provide specific tools, not general purpose blackboxes
Also 4. ML should be trained in a responisble way, which means: 1. Responsible source of training data 2. Resource use of training should be justified by the benefit of the functionality
I remember the time when ML was mosty an exciting University thing, where results were shared, and not some big corporation BS. I am not against going back in that direction.
But you know, digiKam has been using public models for facial recognition and matching for years now. And I don't think anything bad came from it.
I am currently in the position of saying: Wait and see what mozilla does. And if it turns out the wrong way, there are forks. That's the beauty of open source.
@lazy Plenty of good ML research going on at Unis. LLMs and Stable Diffusion are just a microscopic slice of ML and there is a lot of cool stuff you can do with the part that do not require you to steal all intellectual property in the world.
@j_bertolotti @lazy I totally agree, and although I often take shortcuts for the sake of efficient communication, my position on LLMs is nuanced.
What worries me the most is that 'AI browsers' have a larger scope by definition. If Firefox wants to join that group, it would also mean getting a built-in assistant that can browse the web automatically, fill in forms and purchase items on the user's behalf.
I know users will be able to turn it off, but I see it as a source of security breach.
@FoxbrushTailwag Same here, and it makes it even more frustrating. I'm still using Firefox after a couple of months of using LibreWolf, which was educational because I could understand many of Firefox's privacy and options that LibreWolf activates by default.
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Firefox is shooting itself in the foot with this. Most Firefox users are users of the browser because of privacy reasons and to escape the big brother tech.
Implementing ai in the browser is repulsing idea. Nobody want that. I believe sooner than later people are going to avoid AI in the most parts.
@rl_dane @cybird hmmh, not sure about innocence. Maybe it's naiveness or it falls more into the category: Ignorance is bliss.🤷♀️
otoh it is already sawing the wrong side of the branch it's sitting on, which isn't a particular sly plan from the beginning... (and which is also an good observation on moz.com's track record).
Yeah, I guess "innocence" is more a descriptor of the empathic emotion it evokes (in terms of what is desired) than what is actually there.
But also, the extreme juxtaposition of the cute fuzzy "innocent"-looking animal with the horrendously clueless and villainous TESCREAL reality of what Mozilla has become. Ugh.
@vismantas Just the new CEO at Mozilla communicating enthusiastically about AI in general on Mozilla's blog for Firefox (eg. "It will evolve into a modern AI browser") src: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/le…
They should have one of Zen browsers developers as Firefox CEO. Not a finance bro. Firefox should focus on only being a decent browser. They are a foundation, not a for profit corporation and need to act as so.
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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” ― Assata Shakur
Perhaps this acute awareness happens to the middle class when folks suddenly experience the pain and loss of their rights and deprivation of materials they have been enjoying so far and then knowing they have been entitled to these but now they‘ve been taken away.
Mignon comme tout, mais d'un autre côté vu qu'il n'a clairement¹ pas précisé dans son voeu qu'il voulait que le monstre lui obéisse, il a eu de la chance que le monstre en question ne soit pas plus gros...
Be careful with your wishes. If you ever demand from the Djinn to control a one most deadliest to humankind creature – you will get a mosquito.
(Also this is the way to trick the lord of wishes to give you a catgirl: demand a second most deadliest to humankind creature, but specify about sharp claws, night vision, absent morals etc etc)
@qualcu Feel free to repost it where you want, as much as you want. As long as the mini credits in the footer of the picture is preserved and the Creative Commons license. Thank you!
A drone view shows water from melting ice running down the side of the Turtmann glacier on a warm summer day, amid climate change, in Turtmann, #Switzerland, September 3. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
A drone view shows a new section of the border wall that stands in Arizona's San Rafael Valley in Santa Cruz County, #Arizona, U.S., September 22. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
A drone view shows the coastline in the Antofagasta Region, as the health of the country's marine forests is threatened by warming oceans and pollution, in Paposo, #Chile June 12. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza
Tourists look at the Perito Moreno glacier, near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, #Argentina, April 21. REUTERS/Bernat Parera
A drone view shows rainfall creating new waterfalls during Storm Byron in Qumran near the Dead Sea in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, December 11. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg
Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest floor blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the 'Blue Forest', in Halle, near Brussels, #Belgium April 22. REUTERS/Yves Herman
A drone view of the Aguarico River where it passes through the A’i Cofan indigenous community, during a meeting of guards from communities across the region, who aim to defend the natural resources of the #Amazon from exploitation, in Sinangoe, #Ecuador, December 3. REUTERS/Karen Toro
Here's an updated view of the 12-month running mean global temperature, which is a simple metric that provides insight on climate change and climate variability.
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@Natanox Both Tipeee and Patreon have found that only 1% of their creators use the "per-creation" model. It seems they're streamlining their features to focus on more popular options.
Patreon initially planned to switch to the new model in Nov2025, but due to technical issues with a payment processor (Apple), they've postponed the deadline several times. Tipeee recently announced a Jan2026 deadline, so I've decided to move both platforms to the new monthly subscription model at the same time.
@LucKeyProductions Yes, I thought about it, but it was too complex to move everyone to yet another service and maintain multiple release/support systems. Unifying all feels simpler in final to communicate about it.
Understood. Although you wouldn't have to move everyone over; just those that prefer supporting on a per-creation basis. And upload tools/scripts might be able to reduce the release process to a single command, although that would of course require investing some time in the form of research and implementation.
@halla Thank you for your words and your support since the first episodes! As you can imagine, this change affects me so much... That's why I'm releasing three comic pages to talk about it. 😅
The change will take effect on Patreon on 12 January. Until then, the page still shows 'per-content'.
This is because I have decided to give one month's notice to allow my patrons to adjust their budgets. (Don't worry though: I won't release the 'per-content' mechanism during this period.)
@Numerfolt Liberapay. This is because it doesn't have the 5% fee that Patreon and Tipeee take. (To fund Liberapay, you have to support them... on Liberapay.)
Okay, I looked at their FAQ and basically there are the transaction fees that I pay? Like I send you 1€ per month and pay some cents so you can get the full €? And I can donate to them too, which is nice.
@fr3d Unfortunately, that's one of the side effect; I wrote them an email in October about it. I'm still around as a volunteer contributor now, but it is clearly not the same time budget. 😔
while it's perfectly understandable from the business side, it's still a pity. I'd pay extra just for securing the future of Peertube and Framasoft artwork. Apart from all your other great work. 🙂
@Tywele Monthly or yearly? It certainly will depend on how much you pay in fees when you transfer money. If your bank charges high fees, it may be better to transfer money in one lump sum. If the fees are small or zero, monthly payments are great.
My preferred platform is Liberapay because the creator and admin are on Mastodon and the platform doesn't take 5%.
Hi David! I heard your interview on #HPR and really appreciate your stance on licencing and using Open Source tooling. Moreover, once I found your content, I think it's excellent. I had planned to go and subscribe but hadn't done so, so this thread is a great reminder - thank you! Having read your FAQ on your webpage, I will use liberapay, so you get as much of the donation as possible. Best of luck with the developing adventure!
cheer up! We'll keep supporting your amazing and generous work. Your transparency is as always very much appreciated. One quick question: does this change will also apply on Liberapay? Youention Tipee and Patron, but if we support you through Liberapay on per-content basis, shall we switch to monthly?
@Notus Thank you very much for your support! 💜 Liberapay always prefered (from the start) to not include a per-content system. So, since I have the account (back in 2017) I receive 'weekly' donation on it.
Liberapay allows me to download a table with the donation amount and date, and so, with a little table-math I can convert this into a monthly thing and merge the names on the credit ( I'm trying to standardize this to peppercarrot.com/ext/credits-a… )
I will probably move over to librepay since you are the only creator I support on Patreon. I also like the idea of you getting my full support instead of partial payment.
I'm surprised that you didn't do month to month sooner cause of your new web comic. It's always daunting having to go from freelance, to your own thing, but if you have to step away for a bit due to burnout, don't be afraid to take a break. I'll still support you regardless.
I signed up for the minimum for now: $1.00 a comic. I hope it's better than nothing. Your art is wonderful as are your stories and I appreciate your anti-genAI stance.
love your comics, by the way - especially the lemon-centered ones, with the goddess of life. goes very well with fantasy stuff i've been writing the past few years.
To me, the monthly support just feels better even if it didn't make a difference financially. Instead of paying in return for something (which is a transaction), it feels like more like supporting the ongoing work and life of a great artist that has given so much to free/libre culture.
@oscherler You didn't invitent: mid 2024, after problem in the production (cancelling an episode almost done) and during a long period of personal struggle and feeling down, I announced the end on a blog post.
That was a mistake. I wish I never published that blog-post.
I retracted, but the idea circulated well, way faster than the other blog-posts saying I wanted to continue the series.
I'm continuing Pepper&Carrot series, I love it too much. I just had a very bad time. Sorry for that.
you might want to change the denomination of your membership options on patreon. I see 5€/month in the overview of all my memberships, but when looking at your membership options it still shows as "x€ / episode".
I really enjoy the short stories you post here. I hope(expect) you will beginn posting them on patreon too, once the switch to monthly is done?
Yes I saw it and I'm afraid I can't change it at the moment. Patreon will make the change on their side one month after I publicly announce it. It's all part of their policy for moving accounts around. Just to let you know, I won't be posting the episode until the 12th of January. (the effective date for my first monthly) :) I'll post something on Patreon to let my supporters know about it.
(edit: forgot to say, thank you )
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@gws Ha ha, you mentioned something that made me struggle while drawing this announcement. At first, I drew a little guy with a two-day beard and a brown haircut, sitting at my desk in front of my monitors.
But I was worried it wouldn't be really iconic, so I decided to go with Pepper as my avatar. I was fine with it, as I often used her for various things, but maybe it's a bit awkward in the end. 😅
Imo per content model is dangerous anyway. It rewards churning out quantity rather than quality. It means that an artist might need to release unfinished stuff just for the sake of being able to pay their bills. And for the supporter it is unsafe because there is little control to how much you pay. If someone pays 5€ per creation, assuming 1 creation per month, and suddenly you turn in 1 creation per day or something this might be more than the person can or wants to afford.
So per month or something means stabilty for both artist and supporter, just extra effort is not awarded. Per creation creates pressure for the artist and exchanges uncertainty of delivery for uncertainty in when and how much you pay.
@lazy I'll see, but I've never received anything monthly in my life (except the Liberapay weekly support, and thank you very much for being a part of it, but it was a minor part of income so far). I'm a freelancer working 'per task' since I was 18. I only knew that: making the work, getting paid, and I'm 44 years old 😅 ... I really hope this change will be a good thing!
This is different to a typical artist thing. The difference here is that we are not paying for the result. We are paying for the process. For you keeping the project up and sharing the result with the world. And everyone of us will have different expectation. But I think most of us do not have a problem with you taking time. With you choosing to do some freelance project when you feel like it. With you taking a break when you need it. Don't feel indebted to us or that you need to meet certain performance goals here.
And sure, your Liberapay donations are not a major income. Still, guaranteed 400€ a month is not at all nothing. It is enough to afford food if everything else fails. If this change in Patreon goes well you will have a decent bit more monthly support. But still probably nothing in the range of full-time remuneration. So you should not treat this as a 100% job. Treat this as what it is: A small support from your community, to make sure you can continue doing what you do.
Language is said to be humankind's greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect. — mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548465…
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I thought the festive lights reflected from a cobbled street in the centre of my old town looked magical in the rain this evening. The video I took on my phone really doesn't do it full justice though 😔 #Festive #Faversham #Kent #England
👍 It was amazing! Unfortunately I wasn't really dressed for the downpour and couldn't give myself long enough to take a better video 😊 Hope you're up and about sooner, than later 🤞
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💜 💜 💜 Thank you!
Alexan Vorritold
in reply to David Revoy • • •momo
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to momo • • •@momo Sorry if you dislike my current series of comic strip about this Gothic Sorceress and her AI Parrot. It's not here to praise AI at all, btw, but a series to show the issues with it ( this one is 'over agreement', last one was about fake sources generation, before about Vibe Coding, before about false statement, etc...)
They are all here: peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/…
MiniFantasyTheater - Pepper&Carrot
Pepper&CarrotJohnny Than
in reply to David Revoy • • •andabahn
in reply to David Revoy • • •I really love them!
(as your other comics, too)
William B Peckham
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to William B Peckham • • •Michael ☕️
in reply to David Revoy • • •@momo
I for one love the series.
The biggest AI companies deserve to have the wind let out of their sails.
The energy consumption and environmental impact are direct costs, but it may be the societal effects of people making decisions on totally faulty data that may be the most insidious damage.
Children who are raised by these things won't know how to think.
Brokar
in reply to momo • • •What's your criticism? I think they're spot on with the Avian Intelligence. We need more of that, not less.
momo
in reply to Brokar • • •Brokar
in reply to momo • • •@momo
Ok, i can understand you totally. I have no problem with it being everywhere but i criticize the lack of being able to turn it off more frustrating. My hope is that maybe some of the comics may instill some critical thinking about it in some people.
That's what i meant with 'more of that'.
And yes, the art style is awesome.
David Revoy
in reply to Brokar • • •David Revoy
Unknown parent • • •Aaron Caskey-Demaret
in reply to David Revoy • • •Tuchowski
in reply to David Revoy • • •@Gleisplan
Elosha
in reply to David Revoy • • •I love the Gothic Sorceress character, can relate with her 😙 Hope she will continue her journey.
Btw, a teapot moon? 😁
David Revoy
in reply to Elosha • • •analogy devised by Bertrand Russell
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Dave
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Dave • • •Papuan Lorikeet
FlickrDave
in reply to David Revoy • • •Theo 🏳️⚧️
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Theo 🏳️⚧️ • • •Diary of Paracelsus’s Rose
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Diary of Paracelsus’s Rose • • •@zoec The little frog? Something she got since the episode of last week 😊 framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1156…
David Revoy
2025-12-10 16:47:42
Tim N
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
Unknown parent • • •@jenesuispasgoth @Sobex @tisaac Pour l'instant, il n'y a pas d'éditeur qui ont pris l'initiative d'imprimer ces petites BD, donc usage de l'imprimante encouragé!
( tip: sur le site peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/… , en cliquant sur la BD , elle switch en haute definition peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantas… , pour imprimer plus grand , et il y a aussi des traduction FR )
MiniFantasyTheater - Pepper&Carrot
Pepper&CarrotJe ne suis pas goth
Unknown parent • • •@Sobex oui, j'allais dire que si des impressions de bonne qualité existent à la vente, je suis prêt à acheté, plutôt que faire un honteux détournement de bien sociaux via l'imprimante couleur du boulot. 😁
@davidrevoy @tisaac
Cyber Yuki
in reply to David Revoy • • •Did you hear about the guy whose entire hard drive got deleted by Google Gemini?
tomshardware.com/tech-industry…
You HAVE to make a comic about it 😁
Well, you don't HAVE, but it's really, really, REALLY asking for it 😆
David Revoy
in reply to Cyber Yuki • • •Dr. Sobek
in reply to David Revoy • • •Je ne suis pas goth
in reply to David Revoy • • •je vois que tu encourages la délinquance en col blanc. Je ne te félicite pas.
*Clic*
@Sobex @tisaac
David Revoy
in reply to Je ne suis pas goth • • •@jenesuispasgoth 🤣 🤣
@Sobex @tisaac
Václav Zouzalík
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Václav Zouzalík • • •MiniFantasyTheater - Pepper&Carrot
Pepper&CarrotNicole Parsons
in reply to David Revoy • • •Surrounding oneself only with yes-men... not a good idea.
theconversation.com/trump-surr…
psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/ho…
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/don…
forbes.com/sites/kolawolesamue…
thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-…
washingtonpost.com/world/2025/…
thehill.com/opinion/white-hous…
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…
thebulwark.com/p/why-our-tech-…
Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn
Casey Michel (The Bulwark)apophis
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to apophis • • •kwayk42
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to kwayk42 • • •Ronald vd W.
in reply to David Revoy • • •I love the series, and your art for that matter!
Wait, what?! The moon is a tea pot?! 😱
David Revoy
in reply to Ronald vd W. • • •@ronaldb66 Thank you 💜
Yes for the Teapot, it's something from the lore of my main comic Pepper&Carrot (here are panel under), a reference to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%… 😊
analogy devised by Bertrand Russell
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Pete
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Pete • • •Yonerf
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Yonerf • • •Giles of the Jungle
in reply to David Revoy • • •These are just so wonderful. The comedy is perfect and your sorceress's expressions are brilliant.
C'est magnifique.
Merci beaucoup David.
David Revoy
in reply to Giles of the Jungle • • •Louis [OLD ACCOUNT]
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Louis [OLD ACCOUNT] • • •Infrapink (he/his/him)
in reply to David Revoy • • •J'adore ce série!
Je ferai une présentation sur IA en janvier. Mes supérieurs ne savent pas je dirai qu'il est non-sens. Et j'aimerais utiliser des BD avec la sorcière gothique pour illustrer les problèmes.
David Revoy
in reply to Infrapink (he/his/him) • • •@Infrapink Merci
Et c'est fait pour. D'ailleurs, si il y a d'autre problèmes que j'ai pas encore illustré, je suis preneur de thématiques!
J'ai en stock une idée sur le temps d'affichage, de generation et d'erreur et de 'retry' , et aussi une idée pour appuyer plus sur la consommation de resources comme j'avais fait avec l'Amphore d'Intélligence en septembre avant cette série. framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1151…
David Revoy
2025-09-10 16:11:15
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 • • •@SmartmanApps lol at the acronym. 😆 👍
Yes, sycophancy in AI was the subject of my research while writing this scenario. It's amazing how many articles and papers there are on the topic. I hesitated to use the word 'syncophancy' in the title because it felt too cryptic and too specialized.
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱
in reply to David Revoy • • •Thomas Frans 🇺🇦
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Thomas Frans 🇺🇦 • • •The Blue Wizard
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to The Blue Wizard • • •Jargoggles
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Jargoggles • • •Dr David Mills
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Dr David Mills • • •analogy devised by Bertrand Russell
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)David Revoy
Unknown parent • • •@craigduncan Yes and thank you. The inspiration for a Parrot comes from here.
@momo
therook
in reply to David Revoy • • •U.Lancier
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to U.Lancier • • •Thank you!
Jörg Knappen
in reply to David Revoy • • •Ah, and that sparkle emojis are a cute detail. I just learned about it here:
shadycharacters.co.uk/2025/12/…
Shady Characters advent calendar 2025: SPARKLES – Shady Characters
shadycharacters.co.uk:thilo:
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to :thilo: • • •Kagami is they/them 🏳️⚧️
in reply to David Revoy • • •Pedram
in reply to David Revoy • • •David Revoy
in reply to Pedram • • •