MysticKetchup
@MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst 3 weeks ago:
- This is way too brief and lacks any actual evidence for its argument
- It doesn’t touch on the main argument of AI bubble forecasters: that AI costs a massive amount of money to develop and run but does not make nearly enough money to recoup that investment. And people don’t seem to be interested enough in AI to actually pay for it, especially given that the actual price will be very high
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 3 weeks ago:
Wow yet another example of forcing AI into something that the AI just makes worse. Must be a day that ends in Y
- Comment on How Google Disabled Movie Reviews at the Request of Film Studios 3 weeks ago:
- This article likes to repeat itself a lot
- Is this article actually about how the author didn’t like The Gilded Age?
- Only showing critic reviews and not showing user reviews seems like less of an issue than the article presents, given that a quick glance at Rotten Tomatoes shows that critic and user scores tend to be pretty similar but critic scores are lower 9 times out of 10
- Comment on Figured I'd join in sharing what I'm playing- my platinum team ☺️ 5 weeks ago:
Nice! Yeah I don’t mind a modest difficulty increase but some of the romhacks really don’t play well without super optimized teams of competitive mons
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
So the guy that spent half a year taking away lifesaving aid from starving people now says money is no big deal? Then why spend so much time cutting welfare programs?
That’s not even starting on the fact that current AI and robots are nowhere near the full automation level for the vast majority of necessary work.
- Comment on Figured I'd join in sharing what I'm playing- my platinum team ☺️ 5 weeks ago:
What’s the rom hack? Gen 4 is one of the few Pokemon gens I haven’t played and I’ve wanted to do it with a Rom hack that fixes some of the old issues with it
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 1 month ago:
Thanks, I’ve only really seen the more common Touhou characters
Funny to think that meme is already 4 years old, eventually it’ll be older than the consoles it was referencing when it was made
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 1 month ago:
Can’t say I know what show it’s from, I just saved the meme because I also find it relatable
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 1 month ago:
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 1 month ago:
The robot is the only one who won’t divorce him
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not saying there aren’t subtle ones that get through, I’m just saying that there’s nothing in the report distinguishing between the obvious shill and disguised advert
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The 2020 study published in Computers in Human Behavior analyzed the top 100 subreddits — the most influential communities on the entire platform. Their finding? 15% of these subreddits contained content likely posted by bots or corporate trolls specifically designed to promote companies or organizations.
“15% of all subreddits contained corporate bot content” is very different than “15% of all content”
This also doesn’t really give a whole picture. How much of this content actually trends? There’s always some corporate sludge at 0 points if you sort by New, which is how the site is supposed to work. And even some stuff that gets brute forced through is “Hey fellow kids” level obvious and gets trolled or removed by mods.
And while Reddit right now is a soulless husk, all of these things need to be studied on Lemmy as well. Right now there’s probably not much because we’re just not a big target, but as it grows it’s certain that corporate shills and propaganda farms will start to target us. Like I’m not opposed to the general idea of the research, but it really needs to be more specific and in-depth to be helpful
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 2 months ago:
He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist, but her name is not thought to have come up at the talks so far.
So the billionaire building autonomous weapons and spying technology used for genocide who also injects the blood of young men to rejuvenate himself is here to warn us about the dangers of young climate activist trying to deliver food to starving Palestinians?
It’s sad that we’re at a point where people will actually listen to him and think he is anything other than a terrible person
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 4 months ago:
- Comment on Killing Floor 3 review 5 months ago:
I put a ton of hours into KF1 but never got quite that far into KF2. I could blame it on the progression but I can’t really remember if it was all that different from the first game, so I’d probably chalk it up to not having the free time of a college student anymore.
That being said, 3rd entries are rough. You could tell that the first game was made on a limited budget, so 2 offered the opportunity to expand on graphics and gameplay in ways there just couldn’t afford before. But once you’ve done that, how do you expand further? Seems like the answer for this one is “chasing hero shooter trends” which I don’t think they needed
- Comment on AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor 5 months ago:
There’s also no way to really tell what the “cost” of generative AI is on creative fields, or any way to determine who gets what money. There aren’t going to be enough grants to cover every small, independent artist whose work is buried beneath mountains of AI slop
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 5 months ago:
In addition to what others have said, SmartTube has options to remove them on Android TV devices
- Comment on Heroes For Hire (in development), an MMO guild management game using an OS like interface for gameplay (the game calls it "GuildOS"), released in early access on Steam. 5 months ago:
Yeah it doesn’t even need to make it to the courts. Lawyers for big companies will still throw their weight around and tiny indies don’t have the resources to even contest frivolous lawsuits
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 5 months ago:
Seems like a normal, sane and totally not-biased source
- Comment on Blocking real-world ads: is the future here? 5 months ago:
If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play
- Comment on Studio Camelia shuts down a year after raising €300,000 on Kickstarter to fund JRPG (Alzara Radiant Echoes) 6 months ago:
The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.
Risky projects are risky because there’s a potential financial loss to funding them. This is one of those times
Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.
If they put all the KS money towards the game unsure how it’s fraud. The fact that they couldn’t finish with the funding they got from KS is the risk that all KS projects come with
Again, it’s not a preorder site, there is no guarantee that someone who pledges on KS will receive anything. I’m just saying to adjust your expectations and pledgers should think about the risk when they’re putting down money
- Comment on Studio Camelia shuts down a year after raising €300,000 on Kickstarter to fund JRPG (Alzara Radiant Echoes) 6 months ago:
Kickstarter is not a preorder site. The risk of Kickstarter is the same as investing in anything else, that whatever you’re funding goes belly-up and you lose what you invested
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 6 months ago:
Yeah this screams “Let’s use AI for the sake of using AI”. If they wanted simpler summaries on complex topics they could just start an initiative to have them added by editors instead of using a wasteful, inaccurate hype machine
- Comment on “Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shouted at Elon Musk in the halls of the West Wing last month 6 months ago:
- Comment on Two former Polygon writers are starting a new site 6 months ago:
Heh, almost missed that the initials are BFG
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 6 months ago:
Oh it’s undoubtedly going to fail, but it should milk enough money out of their users to keep them going while their investors cash out
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 8 months ago:
- One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.
For clarity’s sake, the views the mod expressed were:
- Calling criticism of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and transfer to Louisiana “yellow journalism” for using the phrase "disappeared"
- Defending the striking down of a school privacy policy that requires teachers get consent from LGBTQ+ kids before outing them to their parents
- Removing posts about surveillance of LGBTQ+ people in r/privacy for contradictory or unexplained reasons
- The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.
Is all criticism now a “mob” just because they don’t want people with anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ views to have the power to censor others?
- The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.
From what I saw, the admins actually said that they were fine with keeping him on the moderation team and the mod deleted their own accounts
- Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.
Are they? The most I saw was that people were considering leaving because other instances were going to start blocking Fosstodon
What is with the concealing and downplaying of the mod’s views and then exaggerating the “outrage” of the “mob”? Yes the Fediverse can be drama-prone but most of the fanning of the flames seems to be coming from the people complaining about Fedi users genuine criticisms of the mods/admins on Fosstodon
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to remove mod privileges for these kinds of views if you’re trying to run an inclusive space. There’s supported suspicion that they’ve used their mod powers to censor information on minorities already, just because they haven’t done it yet on this platform doesn’t mean you let them lie in wait to do it. Makes me worry that Fosstodon admins don’t see any issues keeping someone like that around
Would this get the same kind of backlash had the mod been kicked out for tankie views?
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 8 months ago:
I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share
- Comment on Thoughts on Mario Kart World 8 months ago:
As a Forza Horizon fan my curiosity is piqued. I like being able to shift vibes from an intense race to just cruising around the landscape, and Mario Kart is a very different style of racing so it’d be a very different experience
- Submitted 8 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
