The irony that the meme has multiple popups about AI being bad while the entire meme is AI-generated.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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I agree. Can't quite put my finger on it... maybe the window behind the monitor? I try not to assume simply because of the style, but the lack of author credit makes it hard to check anyway.The weird thing is it wouldn't at all be hard to draw by hand.
Edit: I like all the different answers. It feels like a new, unfortunate version of the "find the differences" game.
It's also the font on the pop-ups, and the AI logo.
There's a very generic style of Facebook cartoon that these things absolutely nail.
It's also the total failure of a punch line in the second frame. Just so robotic sounding.
Check out the random items on the desk. They make no sense.
But yes, the biggest giveaway is those slightly blurry pop ups and that not-quite-comicsans font you see in all that slop.
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hey bro this image kinda smells AI Generated my man
Because it is
Help me out here whippersnapper, all I can see that is suspicious is the coffee cup and grey note next to it, but everything else looks clean
For me it's the text (too regular and perfectly-ruled to be hand lettered, but too much variance between the letterforms to be a font) and the little AI artifact on the random doohickey directly under the bottom left corner of the AI computer monitor: 
Aside from that, it's just the weight of unmotivated choices. Why is the "good" side of the image grayscale while the "bad" side is in color (a human probably would've done it the other way)? Why are the desks drawn slightly differently while the person, chair, and computer are drawn the same (a human would've probably made everything identical to better illustrate their point)? Why all the random clutter on one but not the other (if the point was to make the AI computing experience look scattered and cluttered, surely they would've made it more overwhelmingly cluttered, but if it was for verisimilitude they'd have put clutter on both desks)? Also, subjectively, the "AI" logo on the screen suggests a pleasant experience, not an oppressive one.
An unmotivated choice on its own isn't necessarily an AI calling card, but enough of them together alongside one or two smoking guns can definitely make the case pretty strongly.
There are cables in the windows side but not the Linux side, which also seems like an odd choice for a human to make to me.
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Yes, who in the right mind would draw a popup window behind the screen and forget to write the green command prompt in the second line
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It's not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.
You can't disable that. You can't uninstall that. You can't make a backup of the whole phone. You can't make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We're going to install these apps you don't want, and there's no way to cancel it.
And even if you want to install Android Android, not Google Android, you need to set up Google Android, agree to Google T&C to unlock your bootloader.
Universal Android Debloater.
It's a community-rating systems for apps, and you can remove/permanently (even through os updates) disable them through ADB, without actually needing to know anything about ADB because uad comes in a nice GUI package.
I think I removed ~200 apps (most of them invisible, background ads stuff) from my phone. Much better experience.
My Android phone app started to show me "suggestions" instead of the call history. Geez, thanks Google. Instead of calling my GF, imma call a proctologist.
And I just know this feature will soon be used to serve me even more ads. I mean, the play store is bad enough as it is.
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The AI Generated anti AI Meme.
Also, the example has nothing to do with updating or not.
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Source or it's AI
Its obviously AI
Apart from my comment, here's the tldr:
The outlines, the thought bubbles, the general senselessness of the meme and it not being tied to anything Linux users normally do, instead being based on stereotypical stuff regurgitated by most youtubers now
Also the Terminal on the left is just nonsense
Check out the daily slop of Eli the Computer guy, the thumbnails are all AI slop and generally you can really see the parallels once you look at those vs this image
Also the Terminal on the left is just nonsense
there is no terminal on the left?
On the right I mean. Specifically, an apt update neither upgrades the packages (only syncs the repo), nor should it magically change your shell to sh without giving you any output, except if you enabled the --silent option, which was not enabled in this case, and even then I'm pretty certain it would only cut out verbose output like the specific repos, but not the βsynced repos. X packages can be upgradedβ message.
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The font stands out, too.
Also this in another post from the same guy.
What OS do I need to avoid AI sloppers? No one is interested in your mediocre auto generated garbage.
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Why is the image 5MB?
AI slop
I really love my switch to linux. It's not all sunshine and roses, i have some weird things that i can't really fix. Some problems are "too hard" for me to fix and i don't care enough. After installing Linux right after windows to dual boot, it's so fucking nice to not have your computer trying to sell you shit all the time, and you don't have to jump through hoops just to get you shit working.
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I had to chuckle in an exasperated way when I opened the Xbox app on my phone... and there's a fucking Copilot tab in there as well.
I understand the use cases for AI, but Microsoft seems to be throwing the whole lot at the wall and seeing what sticks.
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Clearly the Linux user just broke their prompt by updating. Classic.
AI-generated comics be like:
There's also the part where a windows update unlocks a new kind of fear: "what will it break this time?"
A linux update instead brings the joy of "nice! New things everyone was waiting for!"
except nvidia drivers.
fuck nvidia.
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AI slop + it doesn't make much sense to begin with
It's not the automatic Updates themselves making Windows bad lol
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Ha! As if Ubuntu didnt update on its own and then completely killed my internet access because it changed the file system of how it stores DNS but didnt somehow do it right to the point of me spending 3 hours figuring out what file I had to recreate and why to get it working again.
Linux is cool but not this make believe version of cool.
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This meme itself feels like AI slop. Also, as a dual user, AI is really not that prelevant on Windows, as opposed to my android phone. Not sure how things are on iPhone, but I heard apple intelligence is going "great"
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Might be off topic, but does anyone else dread the outcome of their Linux system after an update?
It seems like I always time my updates at the time when things go wrong. It makes me not even want to update my system at all, because it usually involves a lot of pain to get it back to a working AND updated state.
For example, last month on the 20th, I updated openSUSE Tumbleweed through zypper dup. All is well, and everything updated just fine. Well, after that update, I noticed Dolphin (the file browser that comes with KDE I think) crashes when creating a new folder in any of my drives, whether it be the main OS drive or one of my many HDDs inside of the computer case, or my NAS. Doesn't matter, I go to create the folder, name it, and as soon as it is made, Dolphin freezes.
Well, I learned earlier this year that if my system is booting normally and able to play games (all I really care about to be honest), I REALLY shouldn't touch it because the next update might break my stuff again. Well, on the 27th, I updated through zypper dup, and what do you know, my GEProton stuff no longer works. So, I spent the entire afternoon trying to figure out what I can do to get it working again, fail, boot back into a snapshot from before the update.
So, I just wanted to know what everyone else feels about updating their systems, especially if you have a similar use case like mine. :/
On debian, I never worry - most of my regular use computers are that. Maybe hesitant about a dist-upgrade, but i backup all my home and main edited config , and apt-list regularly anyway.
on my arch that i use regularly I never worry.
on steam deck never worry - kind of obviously.
On my arch system that i only use occasionally i just expect trouble whenever i go back to it after a too long (say 2 months i'd be edgy)..
I always run my backup procedure first - i have to anyway to sync my home folders.
update archlinux-keyring first as that's the most common issue .
if any dependency issue emerges that cant be fixed by removing one or two packages or using pacman-static - i normally just go straight back to live usb and chroot, or be prepared to reformat and jump back to the pacstrap part of install process and reinstall base system.
It sounds like maybe a rolling release distro like openSUSE Tumbleweed is not the best fit for you. The 'fix the system after updates' is supposed to be part of the fun for those that like rolling release.
I would suggest switching to a point release type distro, where you may end up with some bugs for a while, but they are the same bugs that you can figure out workarounds for.
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