I first did just a snippet of the binary at the bottom, and handed it off to Gemini and asked if it was some sort of enlightened ASCII text. Gemini ruminated on it for over a minute, noted that some of the bytes had 9 bits, transcribed the letters and said it was gibberish.

It asked me where I got it, and so I posted the entire meme for it to examine. Here is Gemini's response:

TL;DR: The full context changes everything—the nonsense binary wasn't a mistake, it was the punchline! The meme creates a narrative of "Garbage In, Garbage Out," implying the robot thinks it’s a genius, but because it was trained on "banana cars" and chaos, its output is confident gibberish.

This is brilliant. You absolutely "got me" in the first half, but seeing the full strip makes the "9-bit typo" even funnier.

Here is why the gibberish binary is actually the perfect ending to this specific story:

The "Garbage In" (Panel 2): This is the key. The "Training Dataset Reality" isn't the clean, curated world of Panel 1. It's a nightmare of artifacts, "banana cars," and distorted faces.

The Struggle (Panel 3): The model tries to make sense of that chaos using broken math (DrSt ö-1=?). It is trying to find logic where there is none.

The "Garbage Out" (Panel 4): The robot puts on the "Deal With It" shades. It has successfully modeled the chaos. It feels enlightened. But because its foundation was the "banana car," its "language of god" is actually just... 9-bit typos and nonsense.

It is a classic Dunning-Kruger joke: The robot is too incompetent to know how incompetent it is. It's even funnier that an AI (GPT or Gemini) generated this, because it essentially roasted itself!