texted from a friend, authorship unknown
@kims Given the sepia tint, something about the style, and the fact that those are not the structures for serotonin, dopamine, adrenaline *or* cortisol, I think AI.
@kims @adriano Also the changes in art details between each panel and the way the speech bubble always points back at the same person and everything else...
@adriano @kims yeah this is absolutely AI
@Gulfie @adriano @kims AI always has that Dehydrated Urine Yellow tint.

@adriano
Well, damn. That ruins what is otherwise a provocative cartoon

Further googling suggests someone used a meme generator. And wow, to my untrained eye those formulae are indistinguishable from the correct ones

[I'm not saying they're correct. I'm saying they look correct to someone who can visually match general structure and chemical symbols, but who otherwise nearly failed high school chem and has no memory of what the specific interior lines represent. This shit is so dangerous]

@kims @adriano I don't know if any of the rest are real, but that first one is phenol, an extremely unrelated compound
@vikxin I simply checked against the wikipedia pages and none of those molecules coincide. Didn't take the time to think about what they could be, my orgchem knowledge is lost in time. @kims
@adriano @kims yeah the only reason I recognized it at all is because I watch too much NileRed. The others are a complete mystery to me. By real I meant real chemicals, not the chemicals they claim to be.
@vikxin @adriano @kims
The second structure is not really anything. Hydroxide is not known for randomly chillin’.
@vikxin Indeed I do not recommend taking phenol supplements to feel better. @kims
@vikxin @kims @adriano mmmm delicious molten phenol
@adriano @kims also the text bubble in the first frame pointing in the wrong direction. Definitely AI

@adriano @kims Art style is a dead giveaway. "Mom" asking herself in the first panel, inexplicably drawn a third time for the punchline, no change between "not at home"/"at home" setting. No human artist would do this.

Edit: Forgot to mention, the word "neurotransmit-ters" being split like that is highly unnatural. If you're making your own speech bubble you wouldn't do that.

@adriano @kims can confirm, this is 100% giving me chatgpt ) specifically) image generator vibes
@kims my favorite neurotransmitter, phenol
@kims The "authorship" is AI slop.
@kims that’s a bit bleak!
@kims came to say "that looks like AI" only to find people analyzing chemical compounds in the comments. Man, I love Mastodon
@kims The "artistic freedom" AI takes with chemical formulas is always interesting to watch. At least I feel somewhat confident in my future job prospects when I see stuff like that.
@kims it's AI-generated (check wiki for what adrenaline and serotonin look like)
@kims Ah, takes me back. 🤔