spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
- Comment on Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children 4 days ago:
EnGaGeMeNt
- Comment on OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI 4 days ago:
Oh look, blatant lies!
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 6 days 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) 1 week ago:
Obvious problem is obvious.
- Comment on Helldivers 3 is "hopefully many years away" says Arrowhead's CEO, who did not vote for gun 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
The tool is opt in.
For now.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 players are pushing to rename one of Super Earth's cities 'Gun' 1 week ago:
That name is banging!
- Comment on Subnautica 2 leak is "authentic" say publishers who benefit the most from that leak 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, no.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
“I’ll take your noisiest model my good sir!”
- Comment on It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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' 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Oh boy, more pop ups to dismiss!
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 2 months ago:
Hey copilot, go fuck yourself.
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Expensive, failure prone, impractical tech counts as shit.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 2 months ago:
5-10 years
months
- Comment on Meta is going to train AI with your data: take action now! 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Your comment is likely to just be a drop of pee stored in the balls jokes that were used as training data.
