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- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 1 week ago:
Well, “laid off” and “fired” are two different things. It sounds like this is closer to being laid off.
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 1 week ago:
Tell me you’re a corpo lackey buying into the “synergy speak” without telling me directly.
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 1 week ago:
“Made redundant”? WTF, BBC?
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards 1 week ago:
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
No. See also: Shareholder Primacy.
- Comment on Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? 2 weeks ago:
The company’s response was an auto-reply: “Legacy Media Lies.”
Funny, that seems to be the correct answer to the headline.
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 2 weeks ago:
My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.
Ha, regulation? With what governing body? Congress is hopeless, because apathy has griped a majority of the voting public, and there’s still a large portion of morons who thought MAGA was a good idea.
- Comment on Video games where you get to kill US soldiers 2 weeks ago:
The Prototype series.
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 2 weeks ago:
So, are we saying we’re still going to be happy with a system that you can bypass with “ignore all previous instructions” or some stupid magic phrase like that?
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is bitching about photoshopping, a thing that exists and almost anybody can do to put some person’s face on a naked body or whatever situation they want. It’s existed for decades. Suddenly, journalists are inventing a new moral panic with LLMs, saying they can do whatever they want with pictures, despite the fact that this technology already existed, it’s just a little bit easier now. It’s not a new problem, so reporting on it is just shifting the blame to a new boogeyman.
See, the magic formula is to slap the word “AI” on a headline and boom, instant attention! It doesn’t matter what it’s about, if it’s a new problem, if it’s only slightly related to the main root cause… As long as your talking shit about every angle around AI in the most extreme ways possible, mission accomplished. It is outrage reporting because there is no solutioning or historical context. The sole purpose is the outrage, because outrages generates clicks. It’s too hard for journalists to think outside the outrage box.
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 2 weeks ago:
These people and journalists don’t see to remember celebrity photoshops. Or maybe they do and want to continue to feed the outrage machine.
Pardon me if I duck out of my Two Minutes Hate for today.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 2 weeks ago:
Even Metroid Dread was trend-chasing.
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 2 weeks ago:
LLM liability is not exactly cut-and-dry, either. It doesn’t really matter how many rules you put on LLMs to not do something, people will find a way to break it to do the thing it said it wasn’t going to do. For fuck’s sake, have we really forgotten the lessons of Asimov’s I, Robot short stories? Almost every one of them was about how the “unbreakable” three laws were very breakable thing, because absolute laws don’t make sense in every context. (While I hate using AI fiction with LLM comparisons, this one fits.)
Ultimately, it’s the person’s responsibility for telling it to do a thing, and getting the thing it was told to get. LLMs are a tool, nothing more. If somebody buys a hammer, and misuses that hammer by bashing somebody’s brains in, we arrest the person who committed murder. If there’s some security hole on a website that a hacker used to steal data, depending on how negligent the company is, there is some liability with that company not providing enough protections against their data. But, the hacker 100% broke the law, and would get convicted, if caught.
Regardless of all of that, LLMs aren’t fucking sentient and these dumbass journalists need to stop personifying them.
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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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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” 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 1 month 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 1 month 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.