Somebody put a Peanuts comic strip through AI and the result is horrifying

As someone who works often in artificial intelligence, I will be the first to state that there are some things that the technology will never ever improve upon.

Charlie Brown and the gang is one of those.

For whatever reason - maybe the idea for this was hatched late one night by a first-year community college kid wishing he was old enough to get drunk - somebody fed a classic 1978 Peanuts comic strip into an AI.  Maybe they were trying to make it even funnier than what it already is.  Who knows?  The result however is downright lopsided and more than a little disturbing.

Here is the original strip.  Click to enlarge:

And here is the, ahem, "AI enhanced" edition:

That final word balloon is cracking me up!  What was the AI trying to render?!  Also, when Marcie first speaks it comes out like the Swedish Chef.

I'm actually looking forward to the AI craze dying down.  I think it will in due time.  Of course, it won't be before the landscape gets littered with those ugly data centers that destroy pristine wilderness, suck up electricity and use millions of gallons of water for cooling.  I for one could use less of that.

Categories: artificial intelligence, cartoons, computers, peanuts, technology, what the hell were they thinking