mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay 3 days ago:
Blaming AI is not what makes this a crime.
- Comment on Come slide with me through loopy shooter maps in this homage to Counter-Strike's beloved Source engine surfing 5 days ago:
Put the name in the goddamn title.
- Comment on Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen 5 days ago:
- Comment on Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft 1 week ago:
Nazi parrots popular sentiment.
- Comment on A project to bring CUDA to non-Nvidia GPUs is making major progress — ZLUDA update now has two full-time developers, working on 32-bit PhysX support and LLMs, amongst other things 2 weeks ago:
If past is prologue, expect it to mysteriously shut down in three months, only for another very promising effort to emerge circa 2026.
- Comment on 11 Bit confirm that they used generative AI for The Alters "in a very limited manner" 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Guru meditation.
- Comment on Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Two crimes, then.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
So… rebranding APUs.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 4 weeks 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’ 1 month 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' 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 4 months ago:
Oh god, what now?
- Comment on Do you remember zombie apocalypse MMO Urban Dead? It's shutting down after nearly 20 years 4 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? 5 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’ 5 months ago:
Well, left and left.
- Comment on Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers 5 months ago:
Everything still works in Firefox.
You can just leave.