When asked who the Mascot of Equestria Daily was, our genius AI ChatGPT first chose Twilight Sparkle. An understandable error considering Twi is all over the place here on this silly horse website. After correcting it, it chose... me as the mascot? It also designed me an OC.
Finally after telling it that Spotlight Splash was the mascot, not me, it pulled a brand new, very Butterscotchy design out of it's electronic ass along with a completely made up origin story.
Introducing your new EQD Mascot as determined by the robot gods, color swapped because we wanted to be accurate too:
(I guess consider this a lesson on trusting cutting-edge AI. It still has a long way to go and it loves giving you very good but completely wrong answers. I'll include the full logs below. It tried at least!)