The premise was to ask ChatGPT for a riff on one of my favorite authors and see what would come of it.

My hope was to make something interesting at least or funny at best. I thought it was immediately funny but I was alone in that sentiment.

Then I had the idea to make it a cartoon and trap unsuspecting bystanders in my ChatGPT writer’s room.

The result is an AI fever dream for sure.

Is AI funny or not funny?

AI is definitely capable of bad spelling, shifting character models, not following explicit instructions, and bizarre glitches. Is that just okay, or is it terrible, really terrible, or really very terrible?

You decide.

De gustibus non est disputandum

I … Pockets ?

This Again

There is No Such Thing as a Neural Jack

Chadzu Likes a Bargain

Chadzu Also Likes Paul Anka

Crisis Averted…for Naw!

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Maybe a Neural Jack Would Have Helped?

Aftermath

Dr Tran is the Chicken, Cpt Lee is Military, Chadzu is the Kaiju, Meet Harper Vance

Our Hero Has a Minor Psychotic Break (Thank You AI!)

I Yam What I Yam

Cages are Always an Option

Sunflurrer? Whatever.

Dr Tran Embraces His Inner Chicken

Introspection…Alice is in Chains

Again…What Could Go Wrong?

No One Expects … the Unexpected

Deal or No Deal ?

Love Hurts

C’est Je Ne Sais Pas Quoi

Wicker Park Chicago

Legendarily Terrible is Still Legendary

Almost Famous at Least

The Game Is Afoot

Here Comes My Hero

The Sound of Music

The Entity Reveals Itself with Bad Spelling

An Eerie Flashback

It’s All About the Benjamins

The Great Reset

Goldie Yawn Says “Hey we are out of frogs dad”

Even After the Great Reset Time Keeps on Ticking (Ticking) into the Future…

And in Another Timeline

Afterwords

I assume if you are not a fan of AI and/or surreal comedy, you did not read this far.

The first installment of the cartoon went straight over the head of a third of the people I shared it with. You probably have to be “in the know” on this type of science fiction and late 90s cultural references to make any sense of it.

Another third of the people I shared it with thought it was pretty funny or at least chuckle worthy in a New Yorker cartoon kind of way. These are the people who gave me ideas that lead to the further installments. You all know who you are. I will give all due credit on this post to anyone who wants to be associated with this monstrosity 🙂

The last third of the people I shared it with thought it was either not funny, definitely not funny, or definitely very definitely not funny. Since everyone knows I am no cartoonist, and this is obvious AI slop (amusing or not) riffing on an NYT bestselling author, the strength of those reactions may have been influenced.