Basil Balanon

Conversations around AI are messy. Observations about Large Language Models morph into observations about Image Generators. Aesthetic critiques against AI art get twisted into ethical concerns about the technology. Machine learning computer science, metaphysics, law, and art criticism all merge into one discourse demogorgon. This graphic novel only looks at one thin strand of that discourse,...

Paul, an inoffensive high schooler unsure and lost in life stumbles across an underground chess club. He joins this motley crew of people playing chess at a parking lot in the hopes of finding the answers he's looking for.