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- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 1 week ago:
You wouldn’t even notice it unless it’s pointed out and you see the real world place they filmed vs what they made it look like with CGI in the film.
That’s my point. If it’s invisible, it’s done its job.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 1 week ago:
This is a deliberate oversimplification to try to excuse derivative and copied works of artists who have had their art stolen.
It’s not. You misunderstand both copyright law and how LLMs work.
Models are GBs of weights, typically in the 4GB to 24GB range. LLMs do not look at a picture and then copy that picture into the model. There’s not enough disk space to do something like that. It’s used for training, adjusting weights here and there, based on how the image links to the description. You can’t just say “recreate the Mona Lisa” and have it give you a pixel perfect copy of the original.
When you do it, it’s copyright infringement.
It’s not copyright infringement to copy a style. People do it all the time. You wouldn’t believe the amount of times I’ve seen something that I thought was some unique style, and thought that one artist did it, but it turns out it’s just another copycat artist “inspired by” the more popular artist.
Because that’s what people do to something unique, or even remotely rare: Copy it a thousands times and drive it into the ground until you’re fucking sick of it.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 1 week ago:
If looking at a picture is stealing, then I’m doing so every day when I browse a web page or Google Image Search.
Energy needs are a concern, but it was never a new problem. Our energy needs have been ramping up every since we learned how to make electricity.
The ones who “contribute to human culture” are the 1% who are lucky enough to make a career out of making art or making music or whatever other creative talent they had. The problem is oversaturation, not AI.
“Once it runs out of new content to plagiarize it will be unable to produce anything new.” Sounds like humans in a nutshell. Good artists borrow, great artists steal. Creativity itself is not sustainable at the rate we consume it. Every new thing is drilled into the ground, and beaten into a bloody pulp, until we find the next new thing. This is not a new problem.
Capitalism is the enemy of humanity. Capitalists wield AI as a weapon, and we treat it as a scapegoat. We think that we can just get rid of AI, and then the enemy is gone. But, AI isn’t going away, and the same enemy we’ve always had still exists.
Use it to your advantage. Use local models. Support open source LLMs. The biggest failure of rich capitalist assholes is sheer, absolute overconfidence and an inability to relate to the people they are trying to fleece.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 1 week ago:
I think we, as a society, need to do a better job separating out the real issue. The real issue isn’t AI. The issue is laziness. It’s the “slop” part, not the “AI” part.
This is just CGI arguments all over again. People fucking hated CGI back in the 90s and 2000s. They hated how it was a crutch for VFX, hated how people wouldn’t bother hiring an animal to put into a simple scene, but they’d spend $10K to make a CGI sheep for a few seconds. Practical effects were suddenly novel. People praised Mad Max: Fury Road for its practical effects, but completely ignored the fact that Fury Road very much had CGI effects throughout.
And that’s the secret: people stopped talking about CGI when it became invisible. If you can’t tell it’s CGI, then CGI has done its job. If you can’t tell it’s AI, then AI has done its job.
But, quite often, you can tell it’s AI, because lazy hacks pretend it’s supposed to replace things that it’s not made for. They spend five minutes trying to generate something, and call it “good enough”. The creative art/video models are getting there, but they aren’t there yet. It still requires a ton of work to get certain styles out of the uncanny valley, and inpainting isn’t perfect. Voice models are okay, and better than the old TTS ones, but they don’t know how to act out a scene well enough. 3D modeling might get somewhere, but it shouldn’t be used for primary characters.
This hype train needs to crash into a brick wall, so that we can use it in a more reserved manner. Some companies are quietly doing so, but that’s not what pushes the headlines.
- Comment on ‘No, I’m not a Human’ Clears 850K Sold, Receives Holiday Update 1 week ago:
The gameplay mechanic can be a bit trolly at times, purposely trying to trick you very often, but I had a lot of fun with this game. It just has a vibe that works a lot better than the jump scare bullshit horror games you find elsewhere.
- Comment on The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless 1 week ago:
A while back, I told myself that I wasn’t going to watch any YouTube video over an hour. But sometimes, really good YouTubers that I respected ended up putting out great two-hour material, like Folding Ideas or RLM or Grimbeard, and I just ended up watching these things, anyway. I might watch it for an hour, switch over to something else, and then watch the rest later. I just did that with the RLM Christmas video they just put out a few hours ago. It’s a hell of a lot better than the fleeting TikTok garbage that is geared towards maximum overstimulation and minimum education.
But, I also watch a lot of YouTube. And I still have my limits. I don’t understand these videos that go up to 5-6 hours. That’s just a lack of restraint in the editing department in my opinion.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 2 weeks ago:
But, did he really win?
- Comment on A story-rich open-world FPS with Max Payne and Cyberpunk 2077 vibes? All right, you have my attention, No Law 2 weeks ago:
If it’s an indie game, there’s a 95% chance you’ve never heard of the developer.
- Comment on Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale” 2 weeks ago:
Further proof that copyrights, like patents, only benefit the rich.
Also, AI-generated material still falls into the monkey selfie legal realm, so they are going to have a helluva time trying to copyright what comes out.
- Comment on AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents 3 weeks ago:
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Postal was a 90s edgelord game. It doesn’t really fit in this era. Even if they managed to make it, I doubt it would have sold well.
- Comment on BigStationW/ComfyUi-ConditioningNoiseInjection 3 weeks ago:
Some models such as Z-Image Turbo exhibit low seed variance
Honestly, that seems like a problem with the model. If you want similar images, that’s really the point of the seed.
- Comment on "Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? [Eurogamer] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame, but also, there’s billions of games and RPGs out already. The game industry is so oversaturated, it’s not even funny.
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one
No, they wouldn’t. Those are the types of clickbait garbage headlines you use already.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 4 weeks ago:
Because if fucking Apple of all companies starts taking gaming seriously, maybe Microsoft will again, too.
You can’t expect large megacorps to “do the right thing”, no matter how you define that. Linux is the only path towards open-source software and promotion.
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- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 1 month ago:
The original reason Krafton gave for firing the founders was that Subnautica 2 was being pushed out before it was ready just so the founders could get their bonuses.
Neither sides of that look good.
- Comment on You should quit social media for good 1 month ago:
Posts article on social media. How ironic!
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 1 month ago:
I feel like this would be as batshit crazy as handing the beloved Dune series to a madman like Alejandro Jodorowsky.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 1 month ago:
Or torrents. If piracy’s on the rise (again) as a replacement for streaming, you can sure as hell bet that it was already replacing sites like PornHub way before that.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 1 month ago:
Enter The Matrix was one of the rare exceptions. That game genuinely slapped.
The game was glued together with duct tape. And not the good kind.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
I’ve been playing around with bazzite a bit, and for sure, i can run a lot of games on it, but you often end up googling which launcher to use, which settings to use, … And then even if you find something, it doesn’t always work.
Here’s a step-by-step guide:
- Launch Steam.
- Install game.
- Hit Play.
Zero issues.
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 2 months ago:
So, ban itself? You can’t hire corruption to clean out corruption.
- Comment on An Update on Stop Killing Games 2 months ago:
I’m glad this effort finally has the support it needs, compared to six months ago when it was practically on life support.
- Comment on 'Points, clicks, and misery' - Civvie11 plays I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream 2 months ago:
PushingUpRoses and Grimbeard both did good reviews on this game. Glad to see a boomer shooter tuber like Civvie 11 trying it out.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 2 months ago:
I don’t want to use LLMs. I feel the majority of use cases for LLMs are inauthentic, lazy, unhelpful, and uncreative.
Well, that’s just your opinion. Don’t accuse everybody else who are using it as evil psychopaths, under some “LLM psychosis”.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 2 months ago:
It’s foolish to think this will just blow over, and the tech will magically disappear, no matter how you think about its ethics.
It’s better to take control of the technology directly, promote open-source models, push local usage, use it as a tool for the people, not as a tool for corporations. If you don’t take control of the situation, the world will take control of it for you.