KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on China's Humanoid Robot Soccer League Kicks Off with AI-Only Matches 3 weeks ago:
This seems like a novelty that people would watch one time and then promptly forget about. Where’s the appeal in this at all? Not even from an “AI BAD” standpoint, but just, like… why?
- Comment on Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books 4 weeks ago:
Really, the whole basis for the anti-AI arguments seem to boil down to “It feels wrong that a billionaire’s corporation should be able to take the work of artists and writers and, without paying them for it, use it to create a tool that is then used to put them out of work.” And that’s absolutely 100% true, but it unfortunately doesn’t hold any legal weight, and the terms we currently have to describe intellectual property theft simply aren’t sufficient to describe what’s going on here. Until new laws are passed, I don’t see any of these attempts to stop AI going anywhere, but I’d love to be proven incorrect.
- Comment on Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI 1 month ago:
Since several journalists wrote about this issue, Meta has made it clearer to users when interactions with its bot will be shared to the Discover tab.
So it wasn’t even an error that they were being made public? Holy shit. I figured the response would be ‘Oops, sorry, that never should have been made available publically’, but it seems the only error was that it wasn’t made clear to users that it would be.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for almost 20 years, never had much of a complaint, but this has me seriously looking at alternatives.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 month ago:
T-Mobile was one of the 50 or so companies that sponsored his birthday parade. I suspect they’d just bend over and take it.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 month ago:
Trump has a proven track record for releasing quality products that are exactly as advertised and always end up being wildly successful and definitely not scams or grifts. His brand is synonymous with quality and integrity. I don’t know why you’d even question this.
- Comment on internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 2 months ago:
The problem with that is that that sort of policy makes the internet just cease to function. User-generated content makes up a massive portion of what’s on the internet, and it can’t possibly all be policed before being posted, unless you want to make a post on Bluesky or whatever and have to wait weeks for it to be approved after manual review. The law requires companies to promptly respond to takedown requests but as long as they do, they aren’t responsible for the content posted by their users.
- Comment on internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 2 months ago:
Yeah, the part about most having 16+ flags isn’t really surprising (or in my opinion concerning). The rest of it, though, is pretty damning, especially the executive response to it all. While I agree with the laws (in my country, at least) that online platforms generally can’t be held responsible for what their users post, those executives should absolutely be held accountable for choosing money.
- Comment on Road rage victim in Arizona resurrected through AI to deliver his own impact statement 2 months ago:
I know ‘AI bad’ and all that, but this is actually a great use of it, in my opinion. It sounds like it was a positive experience for everyone involved, and it sounds like being able to separate herself from this victim statement helped her write it to be more genuinely in the spirit of what the deceased man would have said than she otherwise would have been able to, while also more cleanly separating her own, very opposite, feelings from it.
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 4 months ago:
I’m convinced that the problem with AI isn’t its existence or uses, it’s just that we don’t have UBI to go along with it. It’s the obvious step, but we’re skipping it because capitalism. I don’t think anyone would care if all of the menial jobs were done by AI, as long as they didn’t need those jobs for basic necessities.
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 4 months ago:
Is that actually what this is about, though? The article specifically says:
Prime Video will begin offering AI-aided dubbing on licensed movies and series that would not have been dubbed otherwise.
Obviously they might be misrepresenting the situation, but it doesn’t sound like “They were previously having employees do this and are switching to using AI”; it sounds like “This was not previously being done at all and is now being done by AI”.
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 4 months ago:
I guess AI is really gonna replace a lot of people jobs by the end of 2025…
I’m kind of torn on this. On one hand, if this starts getting used instead of traditional dubbing with an actual translator, that sucks. I’m sure the quality won’t be as good, at least initially, and the whole “AI taking jobs” thing sucks. (If we had UBI, it wouldn’t be an issue at all, for the record.)
On the other hand, if it’s used to add dubs to shows that didn’t have them at all / would not have had them at all, that seems like a fine use for AI. I don’t know.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It’s right on the Steam page. Just click ‘Show More’.
- Comment on Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable 8 months ago:
The Vita (like the PSP before it) was really a stellar handheld for their time. Innovative control options, which a few games used to great effect; great graphics; solid battery life; great looking display; solid and compact construction… I wish it had gotten more support. I loved that thing.
- Comment on How good is the Steam Deck really? (Not a gamer) 11 months ago:
The only things I’ve found that just straight up don’t work on the deck are things with draconian anti-cheat (which don’t work on Linux in general, not just the deck), and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou. Some games require some tweaking (mostly around controls, occasionally changing the Proton version, which is very to do within Steam), but generally that’s been minor. The things that don’t work well are typically things you wouldn’t expect to work anyway.
It’s a fantastic piece of hardware for gaming. Looks great, feels great. It’s a bit large (won’t fit in a pocket, obviously), but that shouldn’t be a problem for anyone who would reasonably want a handheld gaming PC. It’s not a phone or a Gameboy.
I was without a desktop PC for a week or so due to a hardware failure, and was able to do everything I needed to do on the Steam Deck (with a USB mouse/keyboard, plugged into a monitor via a dock). So it’s a great piece of hardware even for that.
- Comment on Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws 1 year ago:
And even if it is, will a company with 39 billion in net income last year even care?
- Comment on Steam Deck Users Account for 10% Of All Players Using Steam Input 1 year ago:
It’s 10% of users using Steam Input, not all steam users.
Valve mentioned that daily controller use has jumped to 15% from around 5% since 2018, and that around 42% of these sessions use Steam Input.
- Comment on Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too” 1 year ago:
I doubt even Microsoft are stupid enough to think they could release a PC-based gaming handheld without Steam support and not fail spectacularly.
- Comment on Thief: The Black Parade - A full sized expansion to Thief Gold 1 year ago:
To see a marching band.
