spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
- Comment on Almost a third of developers think generative AI is a negative for the games industry, says new survey 13 hours ago:
Games and movies have already used algorithms for background crowds and hair movement, AI would just be a continuation of that kind of thing. One reason to be against it for that purpose is because of the concern of how it will be implemented, since those old algorithms were seen as a tool for professionals to use instead of something to replace those same professionals.
The main concern with generative AI is the ‘replace your workforce’ mentality that is associated with it.
- Comment on Politics content to be pushed on all Instagram and Threads users 1 week ago:
Full on propaganda machine, and as usual they blame ‘most users’ for what they force on all the users.
- Comment on Hermen Hulst: Sony Will Continue To Make Live Service Titles, As They Are “Learning” From Helldivers 2 2 weeks ago:
Sony is most likely learning all the wrong things from HD2. For future projects I forsee the normal trends:
- They willl force PSN requirements ip front (already in progress)
- Benefits of monetization will most likely be dialed up.
- Content releases will be spread over time, but not for in game reasons or to allow time for fixing QA issues like with HD2.
- Crossover with other media will be a mix of overpriced ceap with a small numbef of freebees because they don’t understand the free stuff was in response to fucking up in the first place.
- Sony will most likely think that a buggy release is fine because people put up with it.
- Comment on Promoted by influencers, this popular browser extension has been a scam all along 4 weeks ago:
A paypal extension promoted by voluntary shills is a scam?
Say it ain’t so!
- Comment on Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections 4 weeks ago:
And everything else.
People who love jerking off to AI probably wouldn’t care if their calculators were ‘close enough’. Or if their bank statement balance looked likely to be true.
- Comment on Google Ads Testing Showing Same Ad From Same Advertiser On Same Search Results Page 5 weeks ago:
Policies for thee, but not for me!
- Comment on Helldivers 2's first licensed crossover is also Killzone's official debut on PC, sort of 5 weeks ago:
eeeeewwwwwww
- Comment on The Witcher IV revealed with Ciri as the protagonist 5 weeks ago:
She also wasn’t replacing an established male lead character, she was her own thing.
A large world like the Witcher switching protagonists should be the a good setting for switching up a lead character.
- Comment on Character.AI has retrained its chatbots to stop chatting up teens 5 weeks ago:
The teen LLM is designed to place “more conservative” limits on how bots can respond, “particularly when it comes to romantic content.”
Here comes the consensual BSDM model.
- Comment on First big Marvel Rivals patch makes Doctor Strange less of a monster 1 month ago:
Good articles don’t assign homework!
No, I’m not going to share pictures. You’ll have to google that filth yourself.
- Comment on X helps update Kids Online Safety Act in final push for passage in the Republican-led House 1 month ago:
“These changes should eliminate once and for all the false narrative that this bill would be weaponized by unelected bureaucrats to censor Americans. We thank Elon and Linda for their bold leadership and commitment to protecting children online and for helping us get this bill across the finish line this Congress.”
That’s right, it will be weaponized by elected officials and mega corps to marginalize minorities and women.
- Comment on Max is testing always-on HBO channels 1 month ago:
I would love being able to group within the ‘My List’ as well. Let me narrwlow down my 100 things in a backlog to the dozen that are horror tonight so I don’t get overwhelmed by flipping through everything. Hell, I’ll have a ‘background noise’ group!
- Comment on This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English 1 month ago:
AI doesn’t have goals, it responds to user input. It does nothing on its own without a prompt, because it is literally a machine and does not function on its own like an animal. Descartes being wrong about extremely complex biological creatures doesn’t mean a comparatively simple system magically has consciousness.
When AI reaches a complexity closer to biological life then maybe it could be considered more than a machine, but being complex isn’t even enough on its own.
- Comment on This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English 1 month ago:
Using AI is no more unethical than using a motor or a simple lever. It is literally a machine and not actually contemplating its intelligence, it is spitting out words that resemble words written by humans who contemplated their intelligence like a fancy funhouse mrror.
This is why the terminology trying to equate AI to actuall intelligence like hallucinations pisses me off. There is no actual intenet behind the output of AI. It doesn’t feel or want or have motivation. It is a clever mimic at best.
- Comment on This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English 1 month ago:
Honestly the ethical thing would be to increase pay along with the increased productivity that will happen over time.
- Comment on This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English 1 month ago:
By building AI tools to automate most of the tasks involved in translation—including extracting Japanese text from a comic’s panels, translating it into English, generating a new font, pasting the English back into the comic, and checking for mistranslations and typos—Orange says it can publish a translated mange title in around one-tenth the time it takes human translators and illustrators working by hand.
Humans still keep a close eye on the process, says Kuroda: “Honestly, AI makes mistakes. It sometimes misunderstands Japanese, it makes mistakes with artwork. We think humans plus AI is what’s important.”
If Kuroda is telling the truth, then this is an ethical use of AI, similar to the printing press or a farm tractor where the machine is doing the heavy lifting but humans are directly involved in quality control.
- Comment on The future of customer service is here, and it's making customers miserable 1 month ago:
The first point of contact is the AI-powered online virtual assistant, which asks what it can help me with but has, thus far, never been able to actually help.
This has been every one of the few interactions I have had with AI that involved a need for a factual answer Something that is like an answer, but actually wrong, and more of a waste of time than figuring it out through regular steps.
- Comment on Insider: Tesla Is Breaking Tons of Rules Elon Musk May Slash Under Trump 1 month ago:
A swamp is a thriving ecosystem.
Republicans wanted to drain the swamp so they could install a cesspool.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
Clearly Musk wants people to die.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
Aren’t Tslas the ones with glove boxes that have to be opened through the console menu?
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
You have to pop off the speaker grills
Oh yes, the obvious thing to do when trying to escape a fire.
- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 2 months ago:
Yup, same bullshit they tried to use to justify forcing it on HD2 after release.
- Comment on Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data 3 months ago:
But Newsom said he is opposed to the new bill’s mandate on operating systems. “I am concerned, however, about placing a mandate on operating system (OS) developers at this time,” the governor wrote. “No major mobile OS incorporates an option for an opt-out signal. By contrast, most Internet browsers either include such an option or, if users choose, they can download a plug-in with the same functionality. To ensure the ongoing usability of mobile devices, it’s best if design questions are first addressed by developers, rather than by regulators. For this reason, I cannot sign this bill.”
Oh fuck off Newsom.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 3 months ago:
Right, but if the checksum is corrupted…
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 3 months ago:
I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 3 months ago:
On that timescale, what are the odds that the checksum is still reliable?
- Comment on Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here 4 months ago:
Are they verifying anything?
It isn’t like propaganda is a new thing.