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- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 1 day ago:
Well, apparently Nintendo fans and commenters in the linked news section do too.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 1 day ago:
First of all, they did do a bad job with their blog post.
…But I’m also shocked by the number of people who think they’re human AI detectors.
I suspect people are a year or two behind, looking for signs of messy Stable Diffusion XL output, like suspiciously styled appendages or that weird framing 1.5 always did. Or maybe the Ghibli-esque style Tweeters used to ape Sam Altman.
Models aren’t like that any more.
I was just sitting here at a TV, looking at my photos side by side, I cannot tell my own mirrorless camera RAWs apart from some generations, even if I zoom in to pixel peep or try to analyze the depth-of-field from my lens.
Videos edited by H3 are shockingly good now, at lower resolution at least.
I did some character design mockups (just for my own thinking), and I can feed the model separate reference images for characters and art styles and poses and it… just gets it. It looks like the original painted style, and I can’t find any distortions that jump out; if anything, the old source material has more “AI” like artifacts in it.
I’m not trying to glaze diffusion or anything, quite the opposite. Besides, that’s not the point, and I don’t even want to get into that.
What I’m saying, outside of really lazy slop or bad models like ChatGPT, people are behind if they think they can spot AI-generated stuff reliably.
Maybe the studio lied.
The blog post certainly makes it suspicious. They could have uploaded some asset at least?
But, as suspicious as the style is, I can’t tell if that “process” picture is AI generated. Certainly not because the 2nd frame has a cartoon style, or the 3rd and 4th look like weird cg.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 days ago:
OP, can you link the original research? It’s an excellent site:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Does any of that make social media any better?
It’s the reason why they would prefer a first hand encounter from someone via social media without the narrative being twisted.
This is the lie social media sells.
Nothing is vetted. There’s no standard of information hygiene on social media. Anything posted could be a misunderstanding, or fabricated, or deliberate clickbait propaganda.
In fact, that’s exactly what engages the algorithms; its why modern social media is such a cesspool, because clickbait is easier to produce and more engaging than professional journalism.
I’m not really in this thread to argue this thoroughly. Frankly, if you came to Lemmy with the belief that social media is more reliable than news outlets… I don’t know what to tell you.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
… that was only heard from word of mouth or tabloids (newspapers).
I think your question is one of perception.
People trusted “tabloids” (newspapers) back then. They were respected institutions, generally. Public payed attention to investigative journalists, and how stuff got out.
They read news. From newspapers. This was normal.
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit or Twitter (X)
…And these kind of took over from sheer engagement, not necessarily reliability.
TBH, if someone on X told me the sky is blue, I’d still be skeptical. Hence I’m the opposite of you, I suppose: I find it wild that these artificial spaces have become the world’s de-facto news feed over professional journalism.
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 1 week ago:
Man…
When Discord tightens the screws, it is going to be pain on a lot of communities.
Like, technically these permissions make sense, but some day this is going to bite users in the butt.
- Comment on It's gay to brush your teeth 1 week ago:
Ah yes, homophobia and a literally shitty ass.
Two qualities women find immensely attractive. Makes perfect sense.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
I’m just saying, from a practical standpoint, it would be like replacing modern commercial planes with the Wright brothers plane.
A modern GPU isn’t something “skills” can make, it’s a collaboration between thousands of highly specialized people and gigantic hyper specialized factories.
Having such a thing isn’t anyone’s right. It either exists, or it doesn’t.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m pro open hardware. I think a great way forward would be RISC-V processors with integrated accelerators targeting Vulkan, and much of this can be communally developed. But the actual fabrication part is extremely difficult, especially if you want it done economically and with some device that isn’t a toy.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
…You think a modern GPU can be crowdsourced?
I mean. You could. Hardware hackers have. But it wouldn’t resemble anything remotely like our desktops now.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
That’s what I mean!
There’s no hiding from this or just “ignoring stupid people who stream games.” It is going to catch everyone, one way or another.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
+1
Another thing I’d like to highlight is the data hoarder/old internet style “you can take my local games from my cold, dead hands” talk.
…Well. If 90% of the market ends up game streaming, that’s what the vast majority of game devs will target, even indies. And there will be no more local games for you to buy. There will be no desktop gaming GPUs to replace the one that dies. Heck, I bet the internet itself gets locked down in the future.
I see this attitude e on Lemmy and some other corners of the internet, along the lines of “who cares what the masses do? We never needed them.” Like we can go back to the usenet days when the internet was a niche.
That’s a nice thought.
But without critical mass, we aren’t going back.
I don’t have a solution, either.
People, in aggregate, seem to always pick convenience over principle/long term health, when it comes to tech stuff.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 weeks ago:
I have similar anecdotes.
I don’t get that at all. Hence I don’t purely buy the bigotry angle either; I think it’s just trendy, kind of like Starbucks?
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve discovered that good honey mustard mixed with BBQ sauce is better than the Chuck-fil-a sauce anyway (as it’s just mustard + bbq + sugar).
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 weeks ago:
McD’s, burger thing, windys
This is not my fast food environment at all, though.
I guess chains are just kinda regional. But I might go to Chick-fil-A if those three were the only alternatives.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 weeks ago:
I agree with all this.
But it’s expensive. And slow, because it’s so busy.
That changes everything for me. If I’m going to pay a ton for a chicken sandwich and wait for it, I am going to be quite a bit more critical.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 weeks ago:
That… explains a lot.
I figured that’s a component, but it must be bigger than I realize.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 weeks ago:
My theory is it’s “the best” and a consistent default choice in areas that don’t have good fast food chains.
Like, it’s better lunch than McDonald’s.
…But it doesn’t explain why it’s still so popular in my area.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get Chick-fil-A.
It’s as expensive as takeout from a real restaurant, for a sandwich with plain dry bread.
The chicken is… fine. Consistent, other than shrinking over the years.
Shakes are runny. But fine.
Yet people queue in like like it’s Disney world. I just don’t get it. Why wouldn’t I go to, like, Raising Cane’s or Chicken Express or Steak and Shake for a better sandwich at half the price?
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually crazy.
For reference, Split Fiction’s development cost was ~$40 million USD over ~3-4 years, ~75 devs. That’s one of EA’s better games, and not cheap.
It 11% of what they’re looking to cut!
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 2 weeks ago:
…Apathy?
TikTok is basically a time killer, short shots of dopamine. Such users aren’t thinking about it that hard, so it would stand to reason they aren’t considering the impact of the noise either.
- Comment on The gaming industry is truly messed up… 2 weeks ago:
I mean, this is fair.
I don’t like EA. But not gonna lie, if there was a Mass Effect game beta that was good, I’d buy it.
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t work like that.
I hyperfocus on movies, personally. I literally can’t go to sleep watching them.
When I was younger, and I’d watch movies with a big group of friends, I’d always be the last one to turn it off as the credits roll, and they’re all snoozing away.
Now… if my brain had some other thing it decided to be preoccupied with, focusing on the movie is a forgone conclusion.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 4 weeks ago:
I think this is a more global problem of “people now think they’re experts on everything, and shout about it loudly”
Musk is the classic high profile example, but science denialism among the general populace is the low profile one.
And I hear, “well, they always have.”
I dunno… I don’t think the average person in 1926 assumed they were an expert on medicine or physics or whatever. If a doctor is physicist told them something, they’d nod their head.
Now? The notion is offensive, apparently.
And even if I’m wrong there, and people were always like this, the other half is that they weren’t able to shout it into an algorithm that absolutely loves the controversy it generates, and serve it to billions of people automatically.
- Comment on Make it so 4 weeks ago:
It still violates causality
Orion’s Arm has an elaborate write-up for their wormhole system. to get around this:
www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48545a0f6352a
When a wormhole is transported to a distant system by linelayer at relativistic speeds, the two ends of the wormhole become displaced in time due to time dilation. In theory this displacement could allow time travel into the past, especialy if the wormhole mouths are subsequently brought close together again or connected via additional wormholes.
In practice time travel into the past is prevented by the so-called Visser effect. The ends of any single wormhole cannot be brought more closely together than the time difference between them; i.e. if one mouth is a year younger than the other, the ends can’t come closer than a light-year without causing a Closed Timelike Curve. The formation of such a CTC immediately generates an exponential flux of virtual particles, which destabilises the wormhole and causes a collapse.
This represents an effective event horizon between the (hypothetical) part of the universe which allows time travel and the part of the universe which does not; this horizon is known as a Cauchy Horizon.
In other words, one can’t place wormholes in a configuration where they’d violate causality; the act of doing so creates a black hole.
And this includes more complex configurations that could indirectly generate a CTC; in other words, for a large networks, one basically needs high artificial intelligence to arrange a wormhole network to avoid a “roman configuration” where they’d explode.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 4 weeks ago:
Can you edit the post to the original link, OP?
- Comment on Thirsty much? 4 weeks ago:
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The site isn’t what you might think, though. It’s got some good writeups, and spicy ones:
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- Comment on Where do I go for unbiased news in the world without it having an ulterior motive or kissing ass to the establishment of said country? 4 weeks ago:
You don’t.
All news has biases. You find sources that are pretty good, and get to know the motives; and just read critically.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 4 weeks ago:
I’d bet its just an unoptimized prototype.
This is quite doable on 5000 cards, theoretically.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 4 weeks ago:
I’d assume it’s for 5000 series GPUs. And maybe someone will hack it to 4000 cards?
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
It would hilarious, and sad, if it eventually becomes a controlled substance over abuse concerns.
