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Malicious Compliance [Mini Fantasy Theater] (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 hour ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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Malicious Compliance

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. The headmaster bursts through Cepper’s door, slamming it, furious. We see Cepper in the foreground, sitting at her desk, bored, not reacting.

Headmaster: “Cepper! I’ve heard you’re refusing to use your Avian Intelligence!”
Headmaster: “As a scholar of this university, you must! Your pay depends on it.”

Panel 2. A closer shot of the headmaster as he continues his tirade, gesturing dramatically but reading the scroll of a Avian Intelligence Parrot with a little hat and a beard with on it “HR”.

Headmaster: “We also need your Grimoire of Shadows and Fire by the end of the month!”
Headmaster: “So, use your AI! This is non-negotiable, our investors require it!”

Panel 3. Cepper turns in her chair to face the headmaster, revealing the AI Parrot on her desk. She offers a large grimoire to the headmaster (the book remains off-screen).

Cepper: “Calm down... I am using it, and it’s already done.”
Cepper: “The investors wanted high-volume output, right?”

Panel 4. The headmaster is now holding the book, and the audience can see the cover. The cover features Cepper’s face with a dramatic, clickbait-style background. The title is in bold: “Shadows and Fire: 100 Tips (Number 72 is a Game Changer!)”. There is a big arrow pointing to a fire with the word “HOW?!” in giant letters and also “WHAT’S NEXT?!”. The headmaster is surprised. Cepper She has a dark, malicious smile.

Cepper: “I’ve given them exactly that!”
Cepper: “Enjoy the 500 pages of untested slops!”
Headmaster: “?!”

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago) (1 children)

Except, why tarnish your own reputation? For true malicious compliance, you need to publish it not under your own name, but rather under the name of avian intelligence, and call it "100 ai-generated and completely untested slop tips on shadows and fire, compiled under the express direction of <Professor's Name>". The only part of it that shouldn't be AI-generated is the introduction and acknowledgements section, in which you publish every record of them demanding that you use this piece of shit, including each of your strenuous warnings.

In the acknowledgements section, point out five different times where the rituals will, if completed to the AI's specifications, cause the imminent demise of the reader. Thank AI and the professor who foisted it upon you for these "contributions". Offer no solutions, but suggest that volume 2 of the series will feature precisely zero avian intelligence, and will be written by you. Then, publish.

ETA: Source: Am chemistry teacher. Was handed ai-generated curriculum. Pointed out multiple different times when the curriculum could lead to the potential death of students or people in their care (as a representative sample, the curriculum said that one of the most common IV normal saline solution ingredients was KCl —the lethal ingredient in lethal injections— and there was a lab which called for students to boil 95% isopropanol on a hot plate at max heat —550C— outside of a fume hood, with no procedure or safety section). Am no longer expected to use AI slop curriculum. You have to make it clear that using this shit puts the institution into active legal jeopardy.

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

we are cropped out on who authored this, and under what duress. Cepper’s image on the cover is just art.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago) (1 children)

Having her face on it puts her as the putative author, whether she puts her name on it or not. Why take the chance that someone will look at that and think "oh, she's the one who authored all of this criminally negligent shit". This just normalises the AI.

ETA: also, letting the AI use your image is a rookie mistake. This is a fantasy world so, much like the real world, once the powerful archfey get their grubby little hands on your likeness, they'll use it for everything, up to and including scrying on your location at all times. Don't let AI use your likeness, don't give it permission to use your name. Treat it like the malicious fey that it is.

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago) (1 children)

nrly. plenty of “wow face” cover art exists, because it works as an attention grabber.
Cepper knows true shadow grimore are ciphered covered. And fire grimores are required by law to have PLENTY of warnings for lawsuits and hazards.
I say Cepper did an excellent job maliciously complying at the expense of investors. She did as contracted.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago) (1 children)

So use the professor's wow face, or literally any cover art you mentioned that isn't Cepper. Cut all responsibility for that shit. Use up all their tokens on meaningless shite, and continue pointing out at every opportunity that the AI is also emptying the elemental plane of water every time it fucking says "hello"

ETA: see the edit in my TLC for why I don't trust fucking AI to include any safety disclaimers just because the NFPA says they're required.

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 2 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

Actually, I will agree, in that the AI should be in the cover making the wow face.
I pressume then investors just required her face in it somewhere.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

Absolutely: in my suggestion, her likeness is in the avatar next to her email address in the copy of the email thread she would include in the introduction where she publishes evidence of the investors' and professor's negligent demands and her responses in which she warned them that it would produce deeply unsafe slop and likely kill someone.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

I like how A) his robo-bird has a matching hat, and B) it's holding up a scroll and coaching Wizard Guy on it, whose script is apparently contained thereupon. That's right: his brain is so thoroughly cooked that he can't even berate an underling without outside assistance anymore.

[–] UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 4 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

I mean lobbing AI slop bombs their way until they reevaluate their value proposition is just what these greedy wizard corps deserve.

[–] HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org 2 points 33 minutes ago

So you are telling me, we need to invest more into ai to make the slop sloppier and finally can get rid of all employees?