TwilightVulpine @ TwilightVulpine @lemmy.world

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I wouldn't count on the user realizing the limitations of the technology, or the companies openly admitting to it at expense of their marketing. As far as art AI goes this is just awkward, but it worries me about LLMs, and people using it expecting it to respond with accurate, applicable information, only to come out of it with very skewed worldviews.

I so wish we had some affordable, high-density storage technology that we could record and then forget it in the attic for 20 years.

I think even that goes back around to business interests. We can't store that many physical copies in shrinking, expensive housing. Digital purchasable media is somehow just as expensive despite having tiny manufacturing and logistical costs, on top of being unreliable due to DRM.

Subscriptions so far seemed like a better value proposition but between splitting and vanishing libraries, increasing prices and the addition of ads, that's becoming more questionable. Even average people aren't so thrilled of having to subscribe to a dozen different services to watch, listen and play what they want.

These days "free speech absolutist" is used more as an excuse to defend hate speech than actual opposition of censorship. Elon was always inclined to censor whoever he finds inconvenient (company whistleblowers, plane tracker), and many of his fans are similarly inclined, say, against LGBT people, socialists, and other groups they dislike.

This result is clearly wrong, but it's a little more complicated than saying that adding inclusivity is purposedly training it wrong.

Say, if "entrepreneur" only generated images of white men, and "nurse" only generated images of white women, then that wouldn't be right either, it would just be reproducing and magnifying human biases. Yet this a sort of thing that AI does a lot, because AI is a pattern recognition tool inherently inclined to collapse data into an average, and data sets seldom have equal or proportional samples for every single thing. Human biases affect how many images we have of each group of people.

It's not even just limited to image generation AIs. Black people often bring up how facial recognition technology is much spottier to them because the training data and even the camera technology was tuned and tested mainly for white people. Usually that's not even done deliberately, but it happens because of who gets to work on it and where it gets tested.

Of course, secretly adding "diverse" to every prompt is also a poor solution. The real solution here is providing more contextual data. Unfortunately, clearly, the AI is not able to determine these things by itself.

As do most live service publishing companies. That is the whole problem. They aren't bothered by simply looking bad for not preserving them.

I don't get what part of the value proposition for the customer ought to entail that nobody else may make different choices. If an Android user wants to solely and exclusively use Google apps, they can. Likewise, if people want to install apps from other sources, why is that a problem for someone who wants to stick to Apple's app store?

This only makes sense for the company, because they benefit from absolute control.

The only reason Soul Hackers 2 wasn't like that is because it didn't sell enough to justify a re-release

Gotta wonder how that robot feels about humanity

To be fair, to me this does not seem that bad an idea. Live service games share a lot of DNA with arcades. That's easiest to see in mobile, where people play many short matches rather than long campaigns.

...frankly that also includes predatory monetization. People forget that games used to be so hard way back when so that they would gobble up kids' quarters.

For better or worse, live service Crazy Taxi seems to me like a faithful conversion of the original idea to the current day gaming landscape.

Ultrahand? I used it plenty but it never got that bad for me.

Well, it's coming. With that in mind it's better for it to be done well than come out underbaked.

Tears of the Kingdom is less beautiful or smooth than it could have been but it's definitely not garbage. Not like Pokémon Scarlet/Violet or Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.

Games eat up my SSD at an alarming rate. I could see myself using several TB easily.

At that point it's the dick that got a rat 😆

They can get bullied for not having phones, they can get bullied through phones and social media. They can get bullied for not having stupid ass Fortnite skins. Anything is an excuse for shitty kids who want to bully,

To be fair it's not like there's an icon showing what it does. Maybe it should have? I haven't had issues with overcrowded task bars since Windows XP.

You'd think but here we have your annoying ass throwing insults at someone you think uses Linux.

More like, a motivation for the wealthy who control the machines to kill us off.

AI sentience is still science fiction but AI-powered corporate exploitation is very real, right now.

The indifference of AI advocates is just apalling too. "It's going to happen anyway, they just gotta get over it, it's not real."

Teens can barely get over mild perceived embarrassment, nevermind having porn replicas of them spread around, and having to deal with related harassment. I dread how that will affect them.

I imagine that if AI devs didn't sneak around copying people's works in bulk but instead asked for permission or paid for a license, artists wouldn't hate it like they do now.