Sources of Deception

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

@davidrevoy Ah Ah Ah la grenouille ! ❤️

@davidrevoy

is this one of those stochastic parrots ive heard so much about . hehe delightful detail

@aloe Yes, it is! ☺️ It's my fourth comic strip on this AI theme. You can find them here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater.html

@davidrevoy i hope this frog becomes a recurring future friend.

@eri I had a look on the scenario of the next one and it's possible to include the frog, good idea. Yes, I think this frog should follow her everywhere from now on. Real love.
🐸 💕

@davidrevoy
Next time she should kiss a raccoon.
But, like, a specific one.
I’d be happy.

@davidrevoy can we get a full illustration of that frog?

@k1tteh Not this evening, but I'll keep the idea somewhere. Meanwhile, you can probably crop the high-resolution: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/hi-res/en_030_miniFantasyTheater.jpg
🐸 💕

@davidrevoy it's my fav series so far! Really love what you are doing!

@Xerto Thank you!

@davidrevoy Love that one source is O.Rly

@M 😊 Thank you!

@davidrevoy
Je doute que les livres cités en sources existent en plus 🤩

@Nours 😆 Aucuns, bien sure; c'est totalement halluciné comme le font les LLM/IA. J'y ai même mis quelques indices, O.RLY (oh vraiment?), Frogworth B.S. (Bull Sh*t). 😆

@davidrevoy I see what you did there in the sources listing! (Though the alt text seems to disagree.)

@davidrevoy @eri that frog made my day <3 go frog!

@davidrevoy le bullet point qui finit sur un 1 xD

@marud Hi hi, oui, pas une intention en plus, ça c'est une erreur de moi qui duplique la boite de texte quatre fois pour les lignes de sources et qui oublie d'éditer. Ca sera corriger sur le site ^ ^.

@davidrevoy Love the character

@mloxton Thank you!

@davidrevoy Love it!

Especially the sources. Laughed really hard.

For me, it is the best of your AI comics so far.

@PiiiepsBrummm Thank you!

@davidrevoy

@a1ba 💜 💜

@davidrevoy i finished my work for the day so there you go, froggy fanart

@k1tteh Nice! Thank you.

@davidrevoy Avian Intelligence not even doing list numbering right is too real.

@arielmt This mistake, to be fair was 100% mine when copy pasting the text over the already formated first line that I duplicated four time to keep the font size, italic, line-height and bold. Could have been intentional, but I'll 'fix it' in the official website going to 4. But pretty cool the mistake looks like intentional. "Happy accident exists!"

@davidrevoy j'ai reçu une notification de Tipee qui fait plaisir. Merci David 🤗

@Troupier Hello! 💜 C'est à propos du passage forcé début 2026 des derniers 1% de leur plateforme à utiliser le modèle "à la création" pour migrer tout le monde vers le modèle "mensuelle"?
Ou alors ils ont envoyé un mois après la notif que l'épisode 39 étaient sorti?

En tous cas, j'ai préparé tout un petit dispositif pour communiquer la dessus demain car c'est aussi le cas pour Patreon ce changement.

@davidrevoy Your use of color is so refined and subtle and wonderful!!! And the comics are funny. Really love your work. :)

@virtualbri Thank you!
I have a very time consuming painting style for a comic strip. I really envy my colleague on the web who can do a pure black and white line-art and fill them with flat colors.
But I like to paint too much and I would trade this experience for nothing else: I like visible brush stroke and deep colors and contrast.

I also publish a version without text and hi resolution for the artworks only: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/hi-res/gfx-only/030_miniFantasyTheater.jpg

I am reminded of a similar set up, (no AI though) in which the punchline is the frog prince is indeed Prince of all the frogs. @davidrevoy

@BenAveling That's a good one!

@davidrevoy One confused frog later

@megatronicthronbanks ha ha, I think I'll keep the poor little frog following her for the next comic strip. For the running gag. 🐸 💕

@davidrevoy non la publication d'un nouveau chapitre ❤️

@davidrevoy I've given up on making this point, but for a long time I insisted that the entire "stochastic parrot" framing was a terrible insult - to actual parrots.

(Also, at least Avian Intelligence didn't tell her to kiss a poison dart frog! ;-) )

@datarama Haha, true, my apologies to all the lovely parrot of earth! 🦜

But I tried in the past another metaphor (the Amphora of Intelligence):
1. https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/018.html
2. https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/020.html

And I had scaling and moving issue to write more jokes with it.

Moving it to the familiar of a sorceress with the contrast of it colorful and her black, cold emotion versus very expressive and bold, was a very lucky move. I'll keep those two. 😊

@Troupier Ok! Bon, c'est chouette que la notification arrive!
Et je travaille déjà sur le prochain 😉

@davidrevoy @marud D’un autre côté c’est le type d’erreur qui me surprendrais pas de la part d’un LLM, après tout ça sait pas compter ces trucs ahah.

@breizh @marud Oui, j'ai vraiment douté si je devais corriger ou pas.
J'en profite d'une discussion FR pour passer la version traduite par @Nartance qui a quelques jeux de mots sympa dans les sources: https://www.peppercarrot.com/fr/miniFantasyTheater/030.html (et aussi le fix jusque 4)

@M @davidrevoy "Frogsworth B.S."

@silverfish @M 😆 Yes, there is some hints here and there on the sources. However, the issue with the 1, 2, 3, 1 bad numbering is totally my fault during the editing ^ ^

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org the alt text doesn't match the text in the image. the 4th entry in the sources list is listed as "1" again in the image, but as "4" in the alt text

@Haijo7 That's because it's an issue I made while duplicating the text box of the item 1 fout time, to preserve the formating, I forgot to edit the last 1 into 4. It's fixed on the website now; https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/030.html 😊

@davidrevoy we need to rewrite a lot of fairy tales - they all got ai in it!

@energisch_ I'm working on it!

@davidrevoy @silverfish Thought it was totally intentionally. 🤭

@M @silverfish 😅 Yeah, this one was really on me. I really thought for long minute if I should keep the 'happy accident' in the official version, and then, for being honest to my original scenario, I fixed it. (also, I believe 2025's generation of LLMs have process that sort of correct these types of mistakes over the one of the last years, so it might get old better).