Thread 149930170

I asked GPT-5 to list the greatest characters in comics history (ignoring popularity and just judging them on merit). I'm curious what /co/ makes of the list. Here goes:

1. Krazy Kat

>>149930170 (OP)
2. Charlie Brown

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3. Batman

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4. Scrooge McDuck

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5. Corto Maltese

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6. Calvin

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7. Hobbes

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8. Dream

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9. John Constantine

Where the fuck is garfield

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10. Judge Dredd

>>149930170 (OP)
why the FUCK would I give a shit about what AI spits out?

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11. Nausicaa

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12. Guts

>>149930170 (OP)
>I asked a chatbot to just regurgitate old internet sentiment and spit it back at me

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13. Spider-Man

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14. Captain Haddock

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15. Hellboy

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16. Astro Boy

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17. Wonder Woman

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18. Magneto

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19. Ogami Itto

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20. Usagi Yojimbo

You're going through a lot of effort to just post a list of names, for very little return. You could have just typed them all into the OP.

This is a bot posting all of these.

>>149930281
Those are the top 20. Here's the rest of the list:

21. Doctor Doom
22. Cerebus the Aardvark
23. Jimmy Corrigan
24. Enid Coleslaw
25. Blueberry
26. Laureline (from Valérian)
27. Tintin
28. Swamp Thing (Alec Holland)
29. Asterix
30. Lois Lane
31. Superman
32. Lucy van Pelt
33. Pogo Possum
34. Black Jack (Kuroo Hazama)
35. Mafalda
36. Death (of the Endless)
37. Lupin III
38. Doraemon
39. Tetsuo Shima
40. Daigoro
41. Johnny Alpha
42. Halo Jones
43. Judge Anderson
44. Gaston Lagaffe
45. Valentina
46. Major Grubert
47. Prince Valiant
48. The Spirit (Denny Colt)
49. Popeye
50. Donald Duck
51. Fone Bone
52. Alana (Saga)
53. Bigby Wolf
54. Emma Frost
55. Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
56. Dr. Manhattan
57. V (V for Vendetta)
58. Johan Liebert
59. Kitaro
60. Golgo 13

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61. Lex Luthor
62. Joker
63. Catwoman (Selina Kyle)
64. Mr. Miracle (Scott Free)
65. Big Barda
66. Darkseid
67. Animal Man (Buddy Baker)
68. Miracleman (Michael Moran)
69. Grendel (Hunter Rose)
70. Spider Jerusalem
71. Motoko Kusanagi
72. Joe Yabuki
73. Saitama
74. Killua Zoldyck
75. Gesicht
76. Thorfinn Karlsefni
77. Miyamoto Musashi (Vagabond)
78. Devilman (Akira Fudō)
79. Tomie
80. Migi
81. Maggie Chascarillo
82. Hopey Glass
83. Luba
84. Little Nemo
85. Nancy
86. Snufkin
87. Lucky Luke
88. John Blacksad
89. Adèle Blanc-Sec
90. Thorgal Aegirsson
91. Snoopy
92. Modesty Blaise
93. Storm (Ororo Munroe)
94. The Thing (Ben Grimm)
95. Black Panther (T’Challa)
96. Plastic Man (Eel O’Brian)
97. The Question (Renee Montoya)
98. Spawn (Al Simmons)
99. Alita (Gally)
100. Kenshiro
101. L (Death Note)
102. Light Yagami
103. Sailor Moon (Usagi Tsukino)
104. Princess Sapphire
105. Yotsuba
106. Ginko
107. Griffith
108. Casca
109. Dylan Dog
110. Mort Cinder
111. El Eternauta (Juan Salvo)
112. Dan Dare
113. Sláine
114. The Will
115. Invincible (Mark Grayson)
116. Omni-Man (Nolan Grayson)
117. Groo the Wanderer
118. Opus the Penguin
119. Ignatz Mouse
120. Spirou

>>149930224
I've expanded the list to 800 and Garfield hasn't shown up yet. GPT-5 doesn't have a high regard for Jim Davis and his work.

>judging them on merit
How do you define that?

>>149930615
You don't think characters can be better or worse in their construction?

>>149930615
An LLM is literally incapable of judging anything. All it's doing is aggregating the data it has access to on what other people consider to be the best characters "on merit" (and probably not even limited to that) and spitting out an average.

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By your logic, that's what humans do. Unless you think human brains run on magic sauce and aren't just biological computers.

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We could judge
But it's very very hard and energy consuming and I'd rather go have a grape soda

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>>149930224
Update: Garfield is 978, under Hefty Smurf.

>>149930661
No? Humans learn about concepts (like in the case of fictional characters, good or bad characterisation, depth and consistency) and form opinions, then apply those when making judgements. A human would say
>I think Garfield is a good character because x
or
>I don't think Garfield is a good character because y
not just
>the majority of sources say Garfield is good, therefore Garfield is good
which is what an LLM does. Humans don't do that unless they are literal NPCs.

>>149930170 (OP)
>I asked a bot to do a keyword search after scraping the first paragraph from the top ten google search results, 4 of which were ads, 3 were also written by bots, 2 were corporate slop and one was a fat nerd's blog
do NOT post AI slop OP

>>149930754
GPT-5 gave reasons for its choices, I just left them out.

>>149930776
This is cope and you know it, anon.

>>149930779
But those aren't reasons it has come up with. They're humans' reasons it has simply read and regurgitated in a slightly different form. It doesn't even know what they mean, it just knows how to find data and present it. Can we please get past this idea that an LLM can "think", it can't. Not "thought" went into it making this list.

>>149930783
I hadn't read the rest of the thread when I posted it, because if you didn't give enough of a shit to come up with an original post, why should I bother reading your thread?

finally an AI thread that doesn't pretend it's written by a human

>>149930227
This feels right.

>>149930783
what the fuck are you even talking about?

>control + f
>mortadelo
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fake list or anglo list