Vodulas [they/them] @ Vodulas @beehaw.org

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Yes, it does imply that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_bomb

Specifically malicious intent

Don't hold dystopian societies to utopian standards. Yes copyright sucks, and if it was gone things might be better. But also if it was gone corpos might just run more wild than they do now.

Right? "We made a mediocre game that doesn't deliver on the promises we made. Pls give good review now"

That being said, I have not read the Steam reviews, but it could be that they are getting bombed, but the situation described in the article is just people not liking the game for valid reasons

AI art looks terrible, is almost always trained on stolen art, and is typically environmentally unsound. There are genuinely good uses for AI, art is not one of them.

We are talking about this specifically because there is reason enough to doubt Nintendo saying they didn't use it. Nintendo may have used their own assets to train any alleged AI, buy them shutting down the conversation means we will never know.

That is probably why they are all differnt sizes and the flag part is different (or non existent) in each one.

The images might be based off in game assets, but if those are not AI then the artist certainly has a style that mimics AI art. I don't think that is the case, though

I'm getting ready for work, so only have time to do one image, but this is pretty clearly AI generated. The other image is not quite as egregious, but if you take more than a passing glance at the car in the billboard ad, it is pretty obviously AI as well.

Fuck yes!

I think that 'no' is likely a lie. Take a look at the images posted in the article. Pretty clearly AI imo

Yes, sorry, other than the text

I don't know if you and I looked at the same images. Other than the text, all of the images have a lot of hallmarks of AI. The car is asymmetrical in almost every aspect, the bridge has a lot of random artifacts where support cables would be, the skyscrapers are just nonsensical all over the place. To me, they look like a ton of AI slop. They might just be placeholder art, but still shitty to use AI generated images

The study itself is fine for what it is. It gives some specific numbers in the abstract (where that 10% is listed), and it feels like the article writer took that and ran. If you look closer at it though, it is not meant to be a definitive paper. It is meant to be a here's how we can look deeper using these methods. I think science journalism often leaves out that part of science. The, "we have an idea, we need to publish it to get other people to see and help refine it" part is not glamorous, and often inconclusive, but also very important.

This is for color laser printers only, and is not a legal requirement as far as I can tell. Manufacturers were urged by the US government to add it, but it is not a written law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

Oh, for sure eye opening. And looking further in the study was even like, hey, our numbers are not great, but here is a method we could use if we had better numbers. It's the kind of paper you see that might lead to an actual study, but not meant to be definitive

Looking close at the actual study, this article is making a definitive claim when the study did not. There are several assumptions and flaws in the data that the study itself calls out. A direct quote from the study states:

"Accordingly, our analysis does not explicitly assign full responsibility for resulting climate impacts, nor does it determine fair emission levels for any income group"

Immediately before this are the descriptions of the limited data and assumptions made. This article is sensationalizing what is basically a here's how we could do this study

Which in my area is almost $20,000 below livable wage. I get that this not not true across the board, but reading the study and they jumped through so many hoops to get the data they wanted. They could have easily adjusted things regionally, but I bet that would have mucked with having a simple number to publish

I am a fellow pessimist. The key right now is community. Get to know your neighbors. Get involved with local mutual aid groups. Volunteer at the local community garden. Right now community is everything, and that is what will carry us through

Yes, vote when you can, especially locally, but know that it is up those we vote in to start to fix things. Hold their feet to the fire. Call them as often as you are able. Ask for specifics on how they are standing up to Trump. Have your neighbors do the same.

It fucking sucks right now, but don't just give up.

All that of course comes with the caveat of take care of yourself first. Can't fight if you are unable to get out of bed

It shut down last year, but it was also run by Mail.ru. Probably not something you want anywhere near your devices

I am a huge Star Wars fan and I 100% agree. By far the best

Yeah, and a lot of the movies mentioned are not popular because people did not like them. Of the ones I have heard anything about, Mickey 17 is the only I have heard good things about. Red One, really? That is an example?

At least in the US, going to the movies is expensive as all get out, so I think this is less about the movies themselves. I liked the movie clubs where you get x number of movies a month (I did Cinemark's before COVID), but not everyone has a theatre with that option. Also, for me personally, I am still keeping a tight COVID ship, so that means the draw of places like Cinemark is not there anymore. Overall, it just seems like there are fewer reasons to go a movie, especially when oftentimes movies come out on streaming a few weeks to a couple months after it hits theaters.