mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 11 Bit confirm that they used generative AI for The Alters "in a very limited manner" 1 day ago:
These tools aren’t going anywhere.
Make your peace.
- Comment on Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books 5 days ago:
Most anti-AI sentiments seem like misplaced hatred of awful companies forcing nonsense on everybody, or a refusal to place judgement on capitalism itself.
- Comment on Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years 5 days ago:
Guru meditation.
- Comment on Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books 5 days ago:
Meta got shit on for pirating books.
Anthropic got shit on for not pirating books.
- Comment on Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books 5 days ago:
Right, a 12 GB model trained on 100,000,000 images isn’t big enough to contain an MD5 checksum of each.
The same people expect it to identify the authorship of sentence fragments, but never quote one whole paragraph from any book ever. Now: gigabytes of text could be a significant fraction of all books. But finding a single recognizable page is news. Storing text is not what these companies spent a bajillion dollars on.
- Comment on Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books 5 days ago:
Turning books into a language model is transformative. No LLM is a substitute for the original works.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
Copyright is about copying. When someone sells you a product, and you buy it, then you own it. No license is involved. Under the first sale doctrine, no license can be involved - a book can’t have an insert with a EULA. They can print it… but it doesn’t matter. You bought that slip of paper, too.
If you stubbornly believe there’s some instant contract required to look at the logo on a candy wrapper, why are you tutting at people for calling that intolerable nonsense, instead of demanding a change to that intolerable nonsense?
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
Two crimes, then.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
No. I own that copy. It’s not a license to anything. I own it. It’s mine. That’s what the money was for.
Don’t play corporate word games with concepts as basic as having things.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
I own every book on my shelf. That copy is not the same as copyright. Grow up.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
Books can’t say “by buying this book, nuh uh, you secretly agreed to blah blah blah.”
That shit got thrown out a century ago. Fuck off making excuses for corporate bastards in a new medium.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
You own things you buy.
This is theft.
Anyone rolling their eyes and performing apologism can fuck off.
- Comment on AMD tease new gaming chips that combine "Ryzen and Radeon for consoles, handhelds" and more 1 week ago:
So… rebranding APUs.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 1 week ago:
It’s a rebrand of their earlier Joint Symposium in Marketing.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 3 weeks ago:
A serious three-step questionnaire for any subscription service considering AI:
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Could your paid centralized service be accomplished by free local models?
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Yes it could.
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Don’t ruin your thing with cloud AI bullshit.
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- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 4 weeks ago:
Just ban it.
Do not stress over some corporation’s ability to harass and degrade you. Acknowledge a business model is shit - and say, fuck that. If they want better profit margins, spend less money, sell more copies.
- Comment on Google's new AI video tool floods internet with real-looking clips 5 weeks ago:
This is going to transform Hollywood, in the sense that a forest is transformed by fire.
- Comment on Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation 1 month ago:
This “We’re not” sounds a lot like “We kind of are.”
You’re using it for moderation.
You’re using it for editing.
You’re using it for translation.
You’re using it as the first thing new people experience.
Where are you not using it? What’s left?
- Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 3 months ago:
“The machine only did what we asked.”
Okay.
- Comment on Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says 3 months ago:
Oh god, what now?
- Comment on Do you remember zombie apocalypse MMO Urban Dead? It's shutting down after nearly 20 years 3 months ago:
[sad barhah]
“The strongest protections in the Act have been designed for children,” an explainer says. “Platforms will be required to prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content.”
Fuck them kids. Monitor your children’s internet access if you don’t want them seeing weird shit. Same as unsupervised access to television, books, magazines-- anything. The world is not for children.
Since the dev team is A Guy, hopefully he chooses to hand off to someone in a slightly less stupid country. Short as that list has become.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors 4 months ago:
What the hell is any of this?
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 4 months ago:
It’s like we have forgotten - some questions have a right answer.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 4 months ago:
Well, left and left.
- Comment on Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers 4 months ago:
Everything still works in Firefox.
You can just leave.
- Comment on Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations. 4 months ago:
This is adorably misguided. We tried letting humans write the rules. It didn’t work.
The recent explosion of neural-network stuff is exciting specifically because it doesn’t rely on us understanding how the fuck it works.
- Comment on Team Cherry Finely Provides An Update On Hollow Knight: Silksong 5 months ago:
“Finally.”
- Comment on Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea 5 months ago:
but it feels too reliant on generative AI.
… how the fuck else was it supposed to happen?
I don’t want to talk to a game.
Then why did you review this title?!
Here is my drive-by reaction to this: if you don’t value the written word enough to have a writer create unique, intentional dialogue, then why make a game based around conversation?
Because a human accounting for all possible inputs is impossible, you dingdong.
The sole screenshot is a brain in a bucket, and this article has absolutely nothing to say about the content of the game. However you feel about LLMs - these devs didn’t prime the NPCs with “You’re in an Agatha Christie story, go.” They’ve got some kind of wacky bullshit going on, and stylish macabre presentation, and (one would fucking hope) an underlying mystery.
This isn’t Shadows Of Doubt, right? Because that game actually does let the machine make up the story.
This kneejerk clickbait crap doesn’t even address the obvious concerns about the one part it’s fixated on. Is the LLM local? Or will this game suddenly stop working, when OpenAI changes their pricing? If it actually runs on your PC, does it require beeftank specs just to show visual-novel presentation? Does it trickle out words like everyone’s on quaaludes, if you use a laptop over wifi?
- Comment on Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm 5 months ago:
Still no idea where they got those sounds.
- Comment on YouTube is testing a floating ‘Play something’ button 5 months ago:
Also stop suggesting videos that are 6 years old and I’ve already watched them?!
This is self-reporting, but - I think Youtube knows when I’m drunk. The recommendations become a lot of music videos I’ve seen before. And they’re not wrong.