kassiopaea
@kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 3 days ago:
Human posting of AI-generated content is definitely a problem; but ultimately that’s a moderation problem that can be solved, which is quite different from AI-generated content being put forward by the platform itself. There wasn’t necessarily anything stopping people from doing the same thing pre-GPT, it’s just easier and more prevalent now.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 days ago:
This. I often see people shitting on AI as “fancy autocomplete” or joking about how they get basic things incorrect like this post but completely discount how incredibly fucking capable they are in every domain that actually matters. That’s what we should be worried about… what does it matter that it doesn’t “work the same” if it still accomplishes the vast majority of the same things? The fact that we can get something that even approximates logic and reasoning ability from a deterministic system is terrifying on implications alone.
- Comment on Step by Little Step - A short game about Farewells 1 week ago:
That was beautiful, but I didn’t think it would still hurt this much.
It’ll be two years this month.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 1 week ago:
There’s no president of the world yet.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 week ago:
I’ve always hated that. I feel like I’m seeing it less and less on newer vehicles, though, so maybe manufacturers are also realizing that it’s stupid as hell.
Or maybe it’s just not worth the cost to have two different but mostly identical versions of a very expensive and highly integrated modern taillight housing for different markets.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 week ago:
It wasn’t just the norm for websites, it was the norm for every single kind of established platform that offered “free” content; see TV, radio, and even our goddamn public roadways.
Apple did not create an ad platform for the iPhone when it was introduced. The iAd platform was introduced in 2010 with the iPhone 4 as “mobile ads done right” (well after Google’s acquisition of AdMob in 2009, and certainly after the iPhone launch in 2007). It was subsequently shut down in 2016.
Developers never needed to “hack” ways to put ads in mobile apps. Mobile ad platforms already existed at the time, and developers were happy to use them extensively once they realized that smartphones were becoming a truly mass-market product (just like TV advertising, imagine that).
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 week ago:
“I blame RCA for television ads. If they hadn’t made the first mass-market television set, we wouldn’t have TV ads interrupting my morning cartoons!”
that’s how you sound rn
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 week ago:
Well, it was the norm for websites, why would anyone expect it to not transfer over to every other conceivable platform like it has today? The fact that Apple made a device that allowed people to put adware on a device in your pocket is pure happenstance, and I’m not even sure how true that is given the existence of Blackberry and early Windows Mobile devices.
That said, have you ever heard of WildTangent? Because they’ve been around for a loooong time, and were really attractive to poor and stupid kids like me that really started using the internet circa 2005 and wanted to play computer games.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 week ago:
Again, what are you basing that on? Many websites, games, etc. that had traditionally only been accessible on a desktop/laptop were already primarily using ads for monetization at that point (I should know, I was using a lot of them). Blaming Apple for simply making the first handheld devices capable of running similar software makes absolutely zero sense.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 week ago:
How so? I went from Android to iPhone and one of the biggest reasons I kept it was the lack of consumer-hostile intrusive bullshit that seems to be everywhere on Google and Samsung products.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I shouldn’t be posting within 30 minutes of waking up anyway…
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that people read a few things on the internet, think they’re now suddenly domain experts, and do it anyway.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 weeks ago:
That would immediately blow the fuse in the lights and/or start a fire if the two strands were on different circuits that happened to be on different electrical phases.
While I wouldn’t doubt that some people are stupid enough to do that, it’s actually summer that it’s done the most for because of storms and power outages, and people learn that backfeeding is a thing (that you shouldn’t do unless you absolutely know what you’re doing).
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 weeks ago:
Well at that point all you need to do is cut a normal extension cord and strip the ends. Maybe add a switch or a button for extra safety.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 weeks ago:
In my jurisdiction, backfeeding your house from a receptacle is very illegal. Transfer switches and interlock kits exist for a reason.
For anyone wondering exactly why it’s a bad idea: Power from your generator can, if your house isn’t isolated from the grid, travel back into the utility lines and backward through the big transformer at the utility pole (so now it’s a few thousand volts again) and give an unsuspecting linesman a nasty surprise. People have died from this. It is a bad idea.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t Google’s crawlers respect robots.txt though? Is it naive to assume that anything would?
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
I would love to not let the nazis dictate how the swastika is used, but their perversion of the original meaning has permanently altered how it’s seen by the rest of the world. Claiming the moral high ground by trying to force something to mean what it no longer does is a pointless exercise.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
Have you considered that the comment could, in fact, be a joke?
- Comment on The only way to be 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s what the US government is trying to do.
- Comment on What games did you complete in 2024? 5 months ago:
I remember playing Blur back in high school and was surprised with how much I enjoyed it. The gameplay was good, and it had an aesthetic that was pretty unique. Honestly I think I might see if I can dig it up from somewhere and play it again; just to see if I enjoy it as much as I did playing Burnout: Paradise for the first time in 12 years.