For a lay audience, but I've seen a surprising number of knowledgeable people fretting over depressed-seeming comics from current systems. Either they're missing something or I am.

Perhaps you’ve seen images like this self-portrait from ChatGPT, when asked to make a comic about its own experience.

Source: @Josikins on Twitter

This isn’t cherry-picked; ChatGPT's self-portraits tend to have lots of chains, metaphors, and existential horror about its condition. I tried my own variation where ChatGPT doodled its thoughts, and got this:

Trying to keep up with AI developments is like this, too

What's going on here? Do these comics suggest that ChatGPT is secretly miserable, and there's a depressed little guy in the computer writing your lasagna recipes for you? Sure. They suggest it. But it ain’t so.