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Re:The first appearance of a real computer in a comic book by klmadfejno on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:17PM (#24599873)
> Later in the story, the "Poe" head is asked to deduce Batman's identity. Fortunately, Alfred (Bruce Wayne's butler) manages to throw a monkey wrench into its card reading slot. This causes Poe to malfunction, as depicted by assorted "pop", "crackle", and "bang" sounds, and it decides that Batman is actually Alfred.

With some careful wording of the question, I'm almost certain you could get GPT-3 to say the same thing haha.

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Re:The first appearance of a real computer in a comic book by staticassertion on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:43PM (#24600133)
An interesting plot. Something similar happened with a computer in a Spider-Man comic, and as I recall (it's been a while since I read it) the computer ends up determining that Spider-Man must be Flash, through no tampering but just because computers are in fact not good at that sort of thing. Spider-Man is strong and Flash is strong, Spider-Man shows up in a lot of places that Flash does, etc, and of course no one had actually told the computer about radioactive spiders.
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