The Daily Cartoon: What Do I Do About an Ingrown Toenail?
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Left panel: the operator sits at his desk in a purple room, rock posters framed in black on the wall, one toe bandaged and propped up, typing into a ChatGPT window: what do i do about an ingrown toenail. Right panel: in a bright, jungle-themed Stochastic Parrot break room with a huge mosaic parrot mural, five office figures with AI-company logos for heads sit around a table; a delivery drone overhead carries a Coca-Cola can. OpenAI leans forward telling a story: ...so he went to the hospital with an ingrown toenail! Grok, thrown back laughing, says BWAHAHAHA. Gemini, right beside it, has just a small laughing-face emoji. Claude, out at the far seat, arms crossed and dry, says: Ha. Who even has toes these days? DeepSeek, alone in the corner checking its phone, texts in two bubbles: lol thats crazy ... so what are you guys getting paid? Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · render source not recorded
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