spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
Yeah, they are ramping up energy production as a whole.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The AI SEO slop is already destroying the internet, although that negative feedback loop is certainly accelerating it.
- Comment on Krafton claim former Subnautica 2 leads have "resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven't earned" 4 days ago:
Krafton continues to show their true colors.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
By design, LLMs can get faster but cannot be more accurate without a massive intentional approach to verifying their datasets, which isn’t feasible because that would counter anything jot fact based as LLMs don’t understand context. Basically, the training approach means that they get filled with whatever the builders can get their hand on and then they fall back to web searches which return all kinds of unreliable stuff because LLMs don’t have a way of verifying reliability.
Even if they were perfect, they will not be able to keep up with the content flood of new information that comes out every minute when used as general purpose answer anything tools.
What AI actually excels at is pattern matching in controlled settings.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 6 days ago:
There is zero chance of a soft landing.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 6 days ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d just wrote a script for it to use in the back specifically for this sort of question in the future and call it a day. Just to shut up the critics.
They seem to already be doing that as examples come up like glue on pizza, but there are a nearly infinite number of similar issues that are going to need scripting.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 6 days ago:
Because they are promoted as being able to do anything when jammed into everything.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 6 days ago:
The longer it is dragged out the more jobs will be lost when the bubble bursts.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 1 week ago:
The point of chat bots is that you are not supposed to need to know how to use them.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 1 week ago:
They just realeased a new version that is still shit.
- Comment on Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments 1 week ago:
Copilot is the most accurate depiction of someone who was abused as a child apologizing for every mistake, and it makes soooooo many mistakes.
- Comment on Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 1 week ago:
- Comment on Uber received 400,000 reports of sexual misconduct from 2017 to 2022 1 week ago:
Improved excuses and misdirection whenever it came up in the news so people would keep using their product.
- Comment on Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows 1 week ago:
Hard pass
- Comment on Valve point to Mastercard restrictions as the payment firm deny influencing adult game removals 1 week ago:
So all the games can be relisted since nobody cares, right?
- Comment on YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon — here's what's going to change 2 weeks ago:
Turning on digital wellbeing tools
Not that though, fuck that shit.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 weeks ago:
Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.
This sounds like trying to have their cake and eat it too. Steam wouldn’t have delisted that many games without a significant threat of retaliation from the payment processors for possibly publishing something that broke whatever criteria they count as an unlawful purchase.
One case I can think of is the ease of using a VPN to purchase content that is illegal where the person resides but legal elsewhere. Stopping purchases through VPNs would be one thing that valve has no realistic way to address, but if the payment processor insisted that they must avoid that kind of unlawful purchase or cut off all payments then I could see the end result of just removing all of the content.
Not saying it is that exact thing, just an example of something unrealistic that can still be described as a card being used for ‘unlawful purchases’.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 2 weeks ago:
because it rarely understands context
It never understands context.
- Comment on Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children 3 weeks ago:
EnGaGeMeNt
- Comment on OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI 3 weeks ago:
Oh look, blatant lies!
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 3 weeks ago:
“We matched it on social media and news articles about social issues and for some reason it just vomits those things back out!”
- Comment on Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) 4 weeks ago:
Obvious problem is obvious.
- Comment on Helldivers 3 is "hopefully many years away" says Arrowhead's CEO, who did not vote for gun 4 weeks ago:
Jorjani joked about Arrowhead possibly naming the city what the studio likes anyway, adding: “I really don’t like the name GUN personally. but not my decision”.
Arrowhead picking their own name after a public vote would be an one version of managed democracy.
- Comment on Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen 4 weeks ago:
I assume anything related to AI data collection is collecting the data anyway and the ‘choices’ are just whether or not you see and interact with it.
But yes, if you have to click something to see it then it is technically opt in from a user interface standpoint.
- Comment on Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen 4 weeks ago:
The tool is opt in.
For now.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 players are pushing to rename one of Super Earth's cities 'Gun' 4 weeks ago:
That name is banging!
- Comment on Subnautica 2 leak is "authentic" say publishers who benefit the most from that leak 4 weeks ago:
All of the phrasing in those slides are EA expectations and assumptions about what they think the game needs. It does not read to me as requirements agreed to with the developer, just a lot of ‘EA needs more things in a sequel’.
This makes me even more confident that the problem is on the publisher’s side, not the developers.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security 5 weeks ago:
Sadly, no.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 5 weeks ago:
“Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable,”
This is obviously true since publishers of games with private servers are constantly being sued for those things. Like continuously sued all the time, never ending torrent of lawsuits!
I’m amazed that all the companies that still put out games that can be played on private servers are able to afford the legal costs!
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 1 month ago:
Are you saying it is a manipulated prompt or that multiple users all fabricated screenshots of a sequence of holocaust denial talking points as if they were returned by Grok?
