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68d

Resonance

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Panel 1. Cepper, the gothic sorceress, stands on her high chair, in her painting workshop, with an empty canvas in front of her on the easel. Her expression is blank, staring in the void. On his perch nearby, her Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot speaks out loud a notification.
> Parrot: "Breaking news: *Penguin Academy* authorizes grimoire contributions made with Avian Intelligence."
> Parrot: "Third major magic school this week after the *Pointy Hat* and *Daemon*."
> Cepper: "..."

Panel 2. The Parrot leans forward, studying Cepper's face. She hasn't moved.
> Parrot: "I thought that would make you furious."
> Cepper: "No. It's been like this every day for weeks now, so much so that I've lost my ability to feel outraged..."
> Cepper (smaller): "And all motivation..."

Panel 3. General shot in the workshop, Parrot process while Cepper slowly pick one brush from a pot aside of the canvas.
> Parrot: "So what are you going to do?"
> Cepper: "Paint what I actually feel."

Panel 4. Close up of Cepper applying a brush stroke on the canvas. Her voice is quiet, her eyes still blasé, but trying to focus on the canvas. She made a first step.
> Cepper: "If this resonates with someone... that will be well enough."
> Cepper: "Enough to not feel alone in this."

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47d

The Degraded Search Engine

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Panel 1. Cepper, the gothic sorceress, walks toward a large steampunk machine in the center of the library written "Gooblin" on it, colored letters. The machine resembles a rusty block, with a threadmill on one side, a seat and a typewriter-style keyboard.
> Cepper: "A good old 'search engine', this is what I need for my research!"

Panel 2. Close up, Cepper types on the typewriter keyboard, looking at the screen.
> Cepper: "R.I.N.G. O.F. F.I.R.E S.P.E.L.L.S. *enter*"
> Cepper: "...And voilà."

Panel 3. The machine spits out dozens of scrolls and books. Cepper reads them.
> Cepper: "Wait... Why are these results so bad?..."
> Books 1: "(Ad) Ten Fire Spells That Will Change Your Life (You Won't Believe the 7th!)"
> Books 2: "(Sponsored) 15 Spicy Onion Ring Recipes"
> Books 3: "(For you) Top 5 Best Engagement Rings"
> Books 4: "(ad) How to Start a Campfire: A Comprehensive Guide"
> Books 5: "Is Your Fire Spell Not Working? (Try This One Simple Trick!)"
> Books 6: "(Sponsored) Cheap Fire-Resistant Panties! (50% Off Today Only!)"

Panel 4. A librarian approaches, their AI Parrot perched on their shoulder, pointing it. Cepper looks defeated, her eyes blasé.
> Librarian: "Yeah, they tuned it this way so everyone just uses their Avian Intelligence for searching now..."
> Cepper: "...How unsurprising."

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26d

Drawing the Line

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Panel 1: Cepper stands in front of a black board in a classroom with a piece of chalk in her hand, visible on the board her magical notes about "Rings of Fire": geometric drawing with incantation mixed: radius, power, some notes about PyroCircus being Slop and the good one being PyroCorona. But mainly, she is drawing a large AI symbol with parrot wing crossed. A Scholar of dark the arts, with short hair and a snake tatoo enters the room, curious, with her parrot.
> Scholar: "What are you doing?"
> Cepper: "Protecting my research. I forbid it to be trained on or used for Avian Intelligence."

Panel 2: The Scholar is skeptical and mock her a bit. Her parrot is perched nearby, scanning the board with their digital blue eyes emiting a ray.
> Scholar: "Avian Intelligence, will this symbol protect her work?"
> parrot: "No, I'm scanning and integrating her research right now."

Panel 3: The parrot confirms. The Scholar repeats it with smug certainty while Cepper think.
> parrot: "Done. This knowledge is now part of my dataset."
> Scholar: "Tss... See? It doesn't protect."

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12d

The Poisonous Appearance

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Panel 1. In the golden light of autumn and golden trees, a patch of autumn crocuses and a ruined sanctuary made of megaliths stands in a remote part of the forest. Amall, a small blonde elf, has doubts as her hands glow with magical light. Across from her, Cepper, the gothic sorceress, has placed both hands on the stone altar, decorated with candles and a pumpkin.
> Amall: "Are you sure this is what you *really* want?"
> Cepper: "Shut up, Amall, and **do it!** Before I change my mind."

Panel 2. Amall focuses on the spell. Cepper grits her teeth and closes her eyes as Amall's hands cover hers with their intense light.
> Amall: "Alright... Digitus Novus!"

Panel 3. Amall blows on her hands and massages them to cool them down. Cepper is speechless, examining her new six-fingered hands that still shimmer with Amall's magic.
> Cepper: "**Wow.** Impressive. Thank you."
> Amall: "So now, explain to me: **why six fingers?**"

Panel 4. Pleased with the transformation, Cepper walks away from the altar, showing off her new hands like trophies. Amall laughs in the background.
> Cepper: "It's because I have a feeling it's going to poison the dataset of Avian Intelligences."
> Cepper: "...and I can't wait for them to start training on my new appearance."

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5d

This is how you know it's working

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Panel 1. View on the ruins of an old temple now invaded by nature and flooded by a luxurious swamp of magical blue water lilies, yellow leaves of autumn falls slowly. Cepper, the gothic sorceress, is playing flute on the remaining base of a pillar, focused. Nearby, on a smaller ruin of a pillar lands an Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot.
> AI Parrot: "So you think you'll poison anything with your six-fingered hands?"

Panel 2. In the foreground, the hands of Cepper on the flutes with her six fingers, while in background the AI Parrot is commenting.
> AI Parrot: "My dataset is trained with billions and billions of images and texts."
> AI Parrot: "At that scale, anomalies get averaged out: the poison becomes homeopathic. Your work is now even more useful to us."

Panel 3. Cepper stops playing to pack her silver classic flute on her bag, she is happy, and doesn't feel bothered by the confrontation, she is clearly at peace.
> Cepper: "You're counting on that, aren't you?"
> Cepper: "That we think we're too small to matter, so we stop trying?"

Panel 4. Cepper is now walking away, happy of herself while having her bag on her shoulder. The AI Parrot feels surprised that his strategy was guessed that easily.
> Cepper: "Well, if I were truly harmless, you wouldn't need to fly all this way and convince me I am, right?"

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33d

Malicious Compliance

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Panel 1. The headmaster bursts through Cepper's door, slamming it, furious. We see Cepper in the foreground, sitting at her desk, bored, not reacting.
> Headmaster: "Cepper! I've heard you're refusing to use your Avian Intelligence!"
> Headmaster: "As a scholar of this university, you must! Your pay depends on it."

Panel 2. A closer shot of the headmaster as he continues his tirade, gesturing dramatically but reading the scroll of a Avian Intelligence Parrot with a little hat and a beard with on it "HR".
> Headmaster: "We also need your Grimoire of Shadows and Fire by the end of the month!"
> Headmaster: "So, use your AI! This is non-negotiable, our investors require it!"

Panel 3. Cepper turns in her chair to face the headmaster, revealing the AI Parrot on her desk. She offers a large grimoire to the headmaster (the book remains off-screen).
> Cepper: "Calm down... I *am* using it, and it's already done."
> Cepper: "The investors wanted high-volume output, right?"

Panel 4. The headmaster is now holding the book, and the audience can see the cover. The cover features Cepper's face with a dramatic, clickbait-style background. The title is in bold: "Shadows and Fire: 100 Tips (Number 72 is a Game Changer!)". There is a big arrow pointing to a fire with the word "HOW?!" in giant letters and also "WHAT'S NEXT?!". The headmaster is surprised. Cepper She has a dark, malicious smile.
> Cepper: "I've given them exactly that! 500 pages!"
> Cepper: "Enjoy the slop!"
> Headmaster: "?!"

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