spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 18 hours 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 2 days 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?
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 2 days ago:
An AI system that can be manipulated to spew holocaust denial rhetoric without a clear indicator in the response that it is misinformation is defective and unacceptable.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 creators offer no explanation for sudden regime change, instead promise "no loot boxes" 3 days ago:
The most favorable reading of the announcement is that the people who were let go wanted to put in loot boxes, but you are probably right that it is the opposite and they just wanted to put the fired people on the defensive before leaning in hard on loot boxes.
- Comment on Amid AI Plagiarism, More Professors Turn to Handwritten Work 2 weeks ago:
“I’ll take your noisiest model my good sir!”
- Comment on It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material 4 weeks ago:
Curated data should improve the results as well. Just jamming all the trash data is why the models they keep jamming into everything have such trash results.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 5 weeks ago:
That’s good to hear, hopefully that continues.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 5 weeks ago:
I know he has worked on some popular games, but also know that WotC/Hasbro have been going a bit overboard on being controlling and feel lucky that we got BG3.
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 5 weeks ago:
They regularly have skins of famous people for $20 worth of in game points.
It is never enough.
- Comment on Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ plan has a major obstacle: Physics 5 weeks ago:
I am half surprised that it isn’t just Star Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- Comment on Discord explores virtual rewards for its ad product as it prepares for a potential IPO 5 weeks ago:
Will give those a shot.
Just use it for gaming with a handful of friends and would switch if anything else was as reliable and easy to use but with less annoyances. I haven’t found an alternate that does video streaming and works with xbox, which one friend needs.
- Comment on Discord explores virtual rewards for its ad product as it prepares for a potential IPO 5 weeks ago:
Oh boy, more pop ups to dismiss!
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 1 month ago:
Hey copilot, go fuck yourself.
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 1 month ago:
I can guarantee that Musk promoting lies about a white genocide in South Africa is the reason that Trump is welcoming white South Africans who claim to be refugees after denying all other refugees.
- Comment on Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations 1 month ago:
If an individual does it they go to jail.
When a company does it they pay a slap on the wrist fine compared to the monetary benefit they got out of it.
- Comment on Musk’s Colossus is fully operational with 200,000 GPUs backed by Tesla batteries — Phase 2 to consume 300 MW, enough to power 300,000 homes 1 month ago:
What a waste of hardware and energy.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 1 month ago:
Expensive, failure prone, impractical tech counts as shit.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 1 month ago:
5-10 years
months
- Comment on Meta is going to train AI with your data: take action now! 1 month ago:
As if meta cares about whether you click a setting or not, they are going to use the data anyway.
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 1 month ago:
Your comment is likely to just be a drop of pee stored in the balls jokes that were used as training data.
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 1 month ago:
I’ll take a wild guess that they were curating earlier data sets to ensure the output was good enough to make people think it was useful. Then they went for quantity over quality assuming the ‘reasoning’ would be able to handle sorting what is corrext and what isn’t and it doesn’t work that way.
Garbage in, garbage out is my guess. It certainly matches up with other AI systems regurgitating reddit jokes as facts and it is likely OpenAI has similar training data.
- Comment on Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials 2 months ago:
It is if you are a foreign asset.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 2 months ago:
By offering a far better experience for the vast majority of people. Like how DVDs killed VHS, where some people who couldn’t afford to upgrade were left behind.
- Comment on Duolingo said it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI 2 months ago:
Quantity over quality!
- Comment on The Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail 2 months ago:
Yes, it is a terrible design choice but that isn’t one of the design features they are talking about.
Clearance, cab shape, large wheel wells, flat sides on the bed to make it accessible or for adding racks, bumpers you can step on to climb up, and other functional features are what they are talking about. A large number of trucks have had sloping front hoods and still inckuded all of the truck featured that matter and which the cybertruck failed to include.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 months ago:
Uneducated guesses.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 2 months ago:
As long as we are using enshittification for anything gping downhill my word example is lose getting an extra ‘o’ which makes reading ‘I hate it when I loose my keys’ painful. Why the hell is that so common now?
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 2 months ago:
Originally it was a good descriptor of tech companies starting out as useful and then turning to shit as they leaned into becoming profitable, but if you was to use it as “things get shitty in favor of profits” then I guess it could apply to everything.
I liked the original where it had nuance and was a good shorthand specific to the tech trends.
- Comment on Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini 2 months ago:
Whhhhyyyyyyyy
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 2 months ago:
But it sounds like she want to lettuce say whatever we want!
