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- Comment on The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month 2 days ago:
There’s been an open demo for a while if you want to check it out
- Comment on Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file 2 days ago:
While Anthropic’s trade secrets have some legal protection, there are architectural insights that are valuable to competitors—useful for improving their own architecture, speeding up development of competing tools, seeing what Anthropic is working on next, and identifying gaps in what Anthropic has worked out.
Reminder that literally nothing would fuel actual innovation more that making our patent law more relaxed.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 week ago:
First, editors can use LLMs to suggest refinements to their own writing, as long as the edits are checked for accuracy. In other words, it’s being treated like any other grammar checker or writing assistance tool. The policy says, “ LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
The second exemption for LLMs is with translation assistance. Editors can use AI tools for the first pass at translating text, but they still need to be fluent enough in both languages to catch errors. As with regular writing refinements, anyone using LLMs also has to check that incorrect information hasn’t been injected.
Both pretty reasonable
- Comment on Oopsie, Crimson Desert's weird AI paintings weren't supposed to left in for release, Pearl Abyss claim, outlining plans to remove them 1 week ago:
Gamers:
No slop games, ok guys?
Game Devs:
We’re good guys, were not gonna slop it up…
One second later
Let’s slop em up
- Comment on [TheGamer] Spider-Man Fans Are Trying To Work Out Who Keith David Plays In Brand New Day 2 weeks ago:
The president, duh…
If Keith David is in something, he’s probably playing the president.
As long as it’s not a gagool
- Comment on CNN: Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races 2 weeks ago:
They were counting on being able to get Crockett, and to be fair she flat out said she even entered the race was the polls Republicans pushed.
Talerico has a really good shot of actually winning, and it scares the shit out of Republicans.
A charismatic candidate with good policy helps swing a lot of down ballot races too in the state government
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 4 weeks ago:
I hate these “AI is this dumb” posts because most of the time it’s someone telling the AI to build a bad product just to laugh at it.
But they’re still using AI.
And it’s still training the AI.
It’s like burning a tree down in Cali and then saying it was down to raise awareness that Forrest fires are bad…
Everyone knows it already, and you’re just making an existing problem worse.
It’s just clickbait, and I hate that Tom’s post so much about it because it gets clicks.
- Comment on Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun 1 month ago:
No, hes merging them as some convoluted grift to make money somehow.
Which if we’d have had anything resembling a ratio ale go went in the last decade would have wiped all his government contracts.
At this point we need to just seize all his shit.
Fuck him, what’s he going to do about it with no money?
There’s the fun part about oligarchs, all it takes is everyone deciding they don’t get to keep their money, and they don’t get to keep it. Easiest thing in the world these days when it’s digital.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 2 months ago:
But now coding agents with skills can easily read and understand specs, create testsuites, etc.
What “skills”?
If they had the “skills” to do the basic functions of their jobs, they wouldn’t need “skills” in reference to AI…
Which means when the AI inevitably fucks up, the only way they can fix it is by asking the AI to fix it repeatedly and hope it works…
These are right now revolutionizing my team’s work.
Sounds like your “team” should spend less on AI and more on qualified employees.
Or do you all use free chatbots?
- Comment on [Opinion] X users in USA don't like that we have an opinion about them? Tough 4 months ago:
Who cares what anyone still on Twitter says?
But the recent controversy was people from other countries pretending to be American to cause division, no one has been complaining about people from other countries not like America.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
And I said to tell the difference between slop and human indie devs…
They’d have to start vetting games to tell.
You said they don’t have to do that, you just think there’s a magical way to tell?
What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you didn’t even read the comment chain you replied to. I’m just reiterating what I’ve already said, and it’s probably going to help you understand just as much as the first time…
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
I know I’m going to regret asking, but how exactly do you logic out that stopping low quality slop games?
It would literally do the opposite because the goal for each slop game would be $49,999.
Your idea would make everything worse, and I’m just curious why you don’t see that.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.
It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.
But no one wants to pay for that human level review.
And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.
So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
They’d have to start doing vetting for that…
All the slop games are “indie” or at least would start to be structured that way to lower their barrier of entry.
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 4 months ago:
If you look up Stirling engines on the internet, you’ll immediately find a load of toys and hobby kits for a device that runs seemingly by magic.
Don’t write it off because of that, the Romans invented the Steam engine like 1800 years before trains, they just wrote it off as a child’s toy.
A lot of shit generates an insane amount of heat, if we can harvest the temp differential a couple times during cooling process, it’s literally free energy. Even if it just runs the fans/pumps in the cooling. It would be somewhat self regulating even, although we couldn’t rely solely on this or we’d run into the same issue as nuke reactors with positive power coefficients.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 months ago:
I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…
They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.
The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.
But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!
I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam
- Comment on Bluesky announces moderation changes focused on better tracking, improved transparency 4 months ago:
Gotta make the right wingers feel safe enough to harras everyone else…
The company doesn’t want to be known as just a leftist or liberal version of Twitter; it wants to be a home where many different communities can build out their networks and thrive, without the problems of a centralized social network. However, much of the community that adopted Bluesky did so as they no longer felt represented on Twitter/X, which became more right-leaning under new owner Elon Musk.
If they’re banning people from all of Bluesky for a post, it’s centralized. I don’t know why they keep saying they’re decentralized.
- Comment on Man dances for 144 hours to break video game marathon record 4 months ago:
Guiness stopped doing “stay awake” records I think, and for good reason.
Staying awake more than three days is like how LSD is described in DARE and media. You start having “microsleeps” that last for a fraction of a second in the real world, but hit you with a 5-10 minute long dream.
That’s why meth heads are so crazy.
It’s not the meth directly, it’s staying awake for days on it
Like, when a meth head is in public relatively normal and then starts screaming and acting like someone just did something they clearly didn’t?
It’s because they just had a micro sleep dream and can’t differentiate that from reality.
Playing DDR for 144 hours had to be nuts mentally
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 4 months ago:
Employees that were assigned as AI tutors were instructed to sign release forms granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” to use, reproduce, and distribute their faces and voices, as part of a confidential program code-named “Project Skippy.” The data would be used to train Ani, as well as Grok’s other AI companions.
According to the Journal, some employees balked at the demand, concerned that their faces or likeness could be sold to other companies or used in deepfake videos. The employees were put off by the chatbot’s sexual demeanor and its likeness to a waifu. But they were told that the collection of their data was “a job requirement to advance xAI’s mission.”
Don’t forget Musk has had people dress up and pretend to be AI powered robots to boost hist stock…
And Bezos tried an “no employee grocery run by AI” that was really a bunch of Indians watching cameras…
This shit ain’t ready, but we’re burning the planet down for it so no billionaires misses if any ever figure out how profit off it
Capitalism is no way to run a society, at any scale.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 4 months ago:
Reminder that the Luddites were not against mechanization, and not just made at the loom and nothing else.
They were a pro-worker movement who want to see the increase in efficiency translate to less hours for more overall pay, instead of just a drastic reduction in the amount of jobs with weekly earnings remaining unchanged.
They got made a joke, because they did gain some ground.
The looks were expensive and located in a central location, so that’s where Luddite activity was focused. A modern equivalent would be something like all the AI data centers being built nationwide against locals wishes.
Especially before construction is finished. Delays in construction are very expensive and not exactly covered by insurance to my knowledge.
- Comment on Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? 5 months ago:
Why are 70+ year old conservatives acting like conservative?
Maybe because they’re 70+ years old and conservative?
Like, surely people realized that “moderates” agreed with the right on some topics, well, these are them…
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 5 months ago:
Humans would have said to test it first…
AI will just call you a genius for having a brilliant thought no one else could have ever thought of: fire workers and buy AI
Like, it’s fucking insane that high up people are falling for chatbots bullshit, then asking it if they should use AI more. It’s always going to say to use AI and fire humans, because the people making the chat bots want people to spend more on AI.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 5 months ago:
Time is run by a rabid pro-trumper…
The main reason the wealthy keep buying up social media, is to prevent the 99.9% of Americans from realizing we have more in common with each other than the wealthiest 0.1%.
So of course they’re gonna push articles telling people to skip the middle men and go back to listening to traditional media the billionaires have a tighter grip on.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 5 months ago:
The streamers think they’re the stars and partners with the streaming company…
But the company is always going to treat them as products with incredibly short shelf lives under even the best conditions.
Twitch doesn’t view them as real people, and knows even if they do quit or are harmed even killed, millions of barely adults would kill to take their place.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 6 months ago:
Reached by Variety, a rep for Disney declined to provide additional comment on the price hikes. It’s the third time in three years Disney is raising the prices of the streaming services in the U.S., after price hikes for Disney+ and Hulu in October 2024 and in October 2023. Disney provided notifications of the latest price hikes Tuesday on its customers support sites.
So, they’re just doing it every October?
And they were too money hungry to push it back a month or so this year to see if they can get any back?
Whoever runs as a D for president next needs to be a monopoly buster.
Like, at this point can we just get some dude from an FDR museum and tell him to just donate four year commitment?
We need his entire platform again, because neoliberal baby boomers fucked everyone over.
- Comment on Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. 6 months ago:
They’re not “triggered” they’re pissed their doctor is offloading work to a chatbot and violating HIPAA because the chatbot retains everything you type into it for future training.
If shrinks are using chat it’s to do their work and not disclosing to patients and getting their consent…
That’s a huge liability in multiple legal aspects
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 6 months ago:
Yeah. But the moles still get whacked…
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 6 months ago:
I mean, kind of…
That means individual server owners have to decide for themselves if they believe an age verification component is a necessary addition.
The laws are written for capitalism. Not an open source code base that lets literally anyone create an instance of their own.
So “Mastodon” might have lawyers and shit, but a tiny instance with 100 people would just get shut down, or maybe even charges.
It sounded great at first, till I got to the part they were just passing the buck to smaller instances.
- Comment on Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned 7 months ago:
It got it’s initial funding from people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel…
Of course it’s run by pieces of shit
- Comment on 7 months ago:
They’re operating under the long outdated assumption that all you need to simulate a brain is match the number of neurons…
That’s not how any of this works, but they’ve been saying “we’ll be there soon” for so long now that we’re almost able to do it, their gonna lose their main excuse and main reason for fundraising.
They’ll have to tell investors the timeline just changed from years to maybe decades if we’re lucky
And it’s gonna divebomb our whole economy because fucking every fund manager is dumping insane levels of money into it.