rayquetzalcoatl
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 5 hours ago:
We just did a project involving translating a website for multiple regions for a big company. We used a translation service that doesn’t use humans. The Belgian, Dutch, German, French, and Italian team complained that the translation was extremely weird and they had to manually overwrite the automated translations for the majority of the site (at least dozens of thousands of words) before launch.
We’re still a ways off, judging by that anecdote.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 2 weeks ago:
Ah! I forgot about the bigger fool of it all, true. I guess it’s all just bluster and marketing then. God, what a nightmare.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 2 weeks ago:
I legitimately don’t understand money at this scale. Especially not in this context particularly, the context being “rich men investing in parlour-trick technology that most sane people recognise as off-putting and largely useless and yet somehow, presumably, keeps giving them a return on their investment”.
Where does the return come from? Where does the money go? Who has this much money? Who needs more when they have so much? Why aren’t they just enjoying a thoroughly lavish midlife crisis instead?? Haven’t they got hair plugs to pay for?? Why can’t they invest in something cool, if they simply must invest?? Were the men who are investing in this nonsense ever children with human hearts and heads full of dreams? Do they not have passions that they’d like to share with the world? Are they simply joyless bean-counters that continue to live day after day just for the sake of knowing that they’re gaining more uncountable digital money?
Sorry, I think I got off-track there. This whole thing is distasteful.
- Comment on The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone 3 weeks ago:
I think we’re disagreeing on some fundamental things here. I don’t really care what other industries might recognise as art; I care about what I recognise as art.
Brick textures, for example, do have a potentially massive impact on the atmosphere of your game. If you’re playing a game set in a city, where there’s a lot of brick around, the difference between grimy, slimy, dark brown bricks being everywhere and gleaming white/yellow sandstone bricks is absolutely enormous. That’s an artistic choice.
- Comment on The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone 3 weeks ago:
Lumping “free software” and “AI” together here makes me think somebody high up in this rag has investment in AI.
Art is accessible to everyone. Art comes in so many forms, and can be enjoyed in so many different ways. Everybody can make art. It won’t always be the best thing you’ve ever seen or heard or experienced, but practice will make anyone better at art. You can do art for free.
Making a robot do art for you is not doing art. That’s the robot compiling other people’s art and exporting it for you. Nothing valuable, interesting, or human in there any more.
- Comment on Rumor: Telltale Games Working With Influencers For The Wolf Among Us 2 Marketing Campaign 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, yes, I totally focused on the wrong thing here. I never played Wolf Among Us, but I remember when I was younger being really excited for a play through of it – a very cool setting, and I love the art style and I agree I definitely felt the first Wolf Among Us was among the stronger Telltale projects.
- Comment on Rumor: Telltale Games Working With Influencers For The Wolf Among Us 2 Marketing Campaign 5 weeks ago:
Are people still falling for influencers?
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 2 months ago:
Anti-human little creep, I uninstalled and cancelled my subscription as soon as I heard the news
- Comment on Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: ‘I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do’ 2 months ago:
Way too late, what a fucking dork loser. Hope the business crashes and burns (although we all know it won’t)!
- Comment on Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support 3 months ago:
Only music game I need is audiosurf baby! ⚡
- Comment on Paradox delay Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 yet again because technical quality is "more important" than sticking to a date 4 months ago:
I get that delays are frustrating but I never really understood why gamers get so irate about them. Honestly, yes; quality is more important than sticking to a date. Why would anyone want a worse game sooner?
- Comment on Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot 4 months ago:
I feel so bad for anybody creative in that industry :/ imagine being a writer for the Horizon series and seeing some fucking suit plugging AI into a character you’ve put months of work into and going “look what ChatGPT can do!”
I get it bad enough at work but fuck, that’s heartbreaking.
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 6 months ago:
Mark Zuckerberg was caught sucking off a gnome on runway 16R/34L of Denver International Airport last night, causing massive disruption and delaying several flights.
- Comment on BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline 7 months ago:
AI being shit?? No way, knock me down with a feather, never seen that before
- Comment on The Warframe devs want you to come try their luxurious fantasy action-RPG Soulframe 8 months ago:
What is your problem lol
- Comment on The Warframe devs want you to come try their luxurious fantasy action-RPG Soulframe 8 months ago:
I don’t play Warframe either but that’s not what I was commenting on.
- Comment on The Warframe devs want you to come try their luxurious fantasy action-RPG Soulframe 8 months ago:
I don’t understand why you’re acting so hostile :/
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 10 months ago:
Remember when this happened with Helldivers and a bunch of people switched their review back from negative to positive when Sony backed off the requirement? Because they’d “learned their lesson”? Lol
- Comment on Become an aging court jester trapped in a cyclical hell at the whims of a fickle audience in Conan Throwbrien 11 months ago:
I love the look of this