A few months ago, I asked ChatGPT about my webcomic and my video games. You can see it here if you want. Long story shot, the software didn’t actually know anything about my work, it just made a bunch of guesses.

I assumed that my works were too obscure to be recognized, but one of comments explained that ChatGPT has no access to the internet and another one showed me a few AI chatbots that do. You people are pretty helpful. I’m sorry it took so long, but I’ll finally talk to one of them. I picked Microsoft Copilot.

I stopped generating AI images because I was worried that I was stealing other people art. As for chatbots, I don’t think I’m doing anything immoral by talking to them and sharing what they say. AI isn’t stealing something just by talking about it. If you do think I’m doing something bad by talking to chatbots, feel free to explain why. Let’s finally begin.

As you can see, this chatbot has much more accurate information. There’s a few minor mistakes, however. When I started this conversation, my most recent comic was “Literally Them”. I guess Copilot doesn’t update its data every day. I don’t get why the 2022 archive was chosen specifically. There are two other archives that are more recent. Lastly, the so-called latest comic’s date is wrong, but my website gives you the wrong date sometimes, so that’s understandable.

I find it interesting how the reply ends with me being asked a few questions about myself. Compared to ChatGPT, this chatbot is trying harder to appear human. I almost feel bad for giving it commands.

Under the Copilot’s reply, there were a few questions I could click on. The one that caught my eye was, “What is the art style like in Dim & Bright?” Out of curiousity, I clicked on it.

This is interesting. I thought Copilot could only analyze text, but it can do pictures too. It doesn’t go into too much detail, but I’m still pleasantly surprised. I’m not sure about the “appealing to a wide audience” part, though. People often point out the flaws. I still have room to grow.

After the artstyle, I cliked on, “Tell me more about the characters in Dim & Bright.” It’s probably the thing that people like the most about my comics. This is the reply I got.

Here’s where the chatbot really starts to slip up. “Dim & Bright” is not about two characters called Dim and Bright. It’s the same mistake that ChatGPT did. I also don’t get the links at the bottom. Most of them lead to Dungeons & Dragons related content. What does it have to do with my webcomic? I never even made a joke about that game. On the other hand, some of the characters are based on my friends and family, so at least that part is accurate.

I continued the conversation by clicking on the “recurring themes” button.

Like I said before, my comics don’t have a specific theme. Hell, the tagline used to be “a webcomic about pretty much everything”. And considering how I had already posted over 500 comics, there really was no wrong answer for Copilot. I would’ve been more impressed if the chatbot showed its sources like with the first reply. How do I know it’s not guessing again?

I finished college over a year ago, why am I talking like a professor?

Since I could only do four interactions in one session, that was the end of it. It was interesting to see how different the two chatbots are. If you’re curious, I could ask Copilot about the video games that I made. We could see if it can analyze those.