halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
- Comment on US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children 6 days ago:
That depends on your sorting preference. Several sorting options are very straightforward like top, new, etc.
- Comment on UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications 6 days ago:
Sex is a scapegoat for implementing surveillance and discrimination systems. The same as every “think of the children” law ever passed.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 6 days ago:
They are as far as the shareholders are concerned if Amazon is telling them about different tiers of subscription. The bullshit the company spins is just as, if not more, important than the raw numbers. Especially when companies only report mandated info and the raw numbers they’re referencing aren’t disclosed for comparison.
Statistics is the art of making up a narrative you want to show via numbers, and finding a way to say it exists regardless of reality.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 1 week ago:
Shareholders are dumb panicky creatures. As long as the numbers aren’t terrible and you say some nice things most of them take it as gospel.
Spinning shit as a positive is a full time career in the corporate world after all.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 1 week ago:
Subscription info is definitely part of the information provided to investors. The raw numbers may not be in the financial documents, but revenue from subscriptions most definitely is and will give a general idea of changes even if the company doesn’t give the numbers directly.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 1 week ago:
You’re talking internal accountability. That doesn’t apply at this scale.
The accountability here is to shareholders. And they don’t care about why, just quarterly profits and growth.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 1 week ago:
Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.
- Comment on I can't be the only one who learned this the hard way 1 week ago:
The Thai and Korean “spicy” levels are NOT standardized in any way whatsoever.
And you must learn this on your own.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 1 week ago:
There is zero reason for any of them to lie. They can just not comment about things instead of making shit up.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 1 week ago:
No I want that to be a capital offense.
If they’re able to prove in a court of law that you knowingly lied to constituents, off with your head.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On His Star Trek Future: “I’m Hopeful” 1 week ago:
You didn’t like the single musical episode… Yet felt the need to use it as a singled out example of issues with an entire series.
That alone renders your entire comment moot to be honest. It shows you aren’t actually judging things on any sort of standard, just your personal feelings. Which is fine for you, but not at all useful to anyone else.
It also shows you don’t remember half of the older series you seem to be comparing them to, since easily half of TOS, TNG, VOY, and DS9 were filler episodes, with little value beyond just being Star Trek content, and maybe giving some character development if you were lucky.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On His Star Trek Future: “I’m Hopeful” 1 week ago:
Yeah I’d rather have each show be its own thing and crossover (where appropriate). There needs to be some oversight of showrunners, but only to prevent egregious things (look at The Witcher show runners clearly wanting to do their own thing and butchering the IP in the process without any apparent oversight).
Not everything will be perfect, and to be honest many of the vocal Star Trek fan thoughts when shows are being released are often terrible takes. A decent number of people vocally hated DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, when they first started airing, some even calling for them to be immediately cancelled, smothered in the crib basically.
Fan reactions online to new shows need to be taken with an entire salt lick, Star Trek doesn’t have a good track record with the vocal fans being an accurate consensus, and the breadth of modern social media just makes it easier for them to vocalize their opinion in multiple places and make their reactions seem larger and more indicative than they are.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 1 week ago:
Running an LLM locally is entirely possible with fairly decent modern hardware. You just won’t be running the largest versions of the models. You’re going to run ones intended for local use, almost certainly Quantized versions. Those usually are intended to cover 90% of use cases. Most people aren’t really doing super complicated shit with these advanced models. They’re asking it the same questions they typed into Google before, just using phrasing they used 20+ years ago with Ask Jeeves.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 1 week ago:
It’s also very likely that they have a significant amount of corporate customers actively saying they won’t purchase AI-oriented hardware for security reasons, so they’re trying to spin the consumer angle publicly to try and grab the holdouts everyone else is obviously abandoning/ignoring as a side effect. That may be giving them too much credit, but despite just being okay at just about everything, they’re still one of the large OEMs that has survived.
- Comment on if all communication electronics died on New Year's day, how long would it take for other time zones to notice 2 weeks ago:
Yes. By necessity. The grid has to be kept in sync within a fairly small frequency range to operate. Every generator that is grid connected, is spinning at the same frequency. It is a small enough window that you can use it as a reliable clock.
Every time the power load changes they have to compensate with increasing or decreasing the power available to balance within the small frequency window. A deviation as small as 0.5 Hz can cause some protective relays to trip and bring down sections of the grid.
This is also one of the major reasons why it takes so long to bring the grid back online after a blackout. They have to balance power output with the load in each section as it is brought online so it doesn’t just disconnect itself again immediately from an imbalance.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 3 weeks ago:
You mean the text that states the extremely obvious reality that children learn and understand without any issue on a daily basis? Any child that’s ever had a goldfish or a hamster knows this directly. All living things will inevitably die at some point.
The only people reading more into this are the people that think kids are somehow stupid and constantly need to be protected from reality.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 3 weeks ago:
Gotta love random examples pulled disingenuously.
Red+Blue also almost surely had Gary’s Raticate die after battling you on the S.S. Anne, and he goes to the Pokemon Tower on Lavender Town to lay it to rest. It isn’t expressly said in the text, but the Ratata that he loved and had from the beginning is suddenly no longer in his party and he’s in the tower asking why you’re there if you don’t have any dead Pokemon.
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 3 weeks ago:
Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 3 weeks ago:
So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.
- Comment on I never realized Star Wars featured LCARs 3 weeks ago:
One of the many Easter Eggs in the Series. Just like ET’s species being in the galactic Senate.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 3 weeks ago:
they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials… which is paid by… the taxpayers.
You didn’t think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It helps when they’re just telling you the plan they’re implementing via Russian assets and useful idiots.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the exact scenario.
We’re also dealing with language differences. English is not the developer’s first language. What may seem a clear sentence to a native speaker, could be easily misinterpreted/mistranslated to something similar, but different enough that the answer changes.
It seems that the AI use was early in development, and limited to temporary placeholders that were going to be replaced. Since they were patched out within days of release, that seems to imply they already had replacement assets on hand, they were just missed during final checks before release.
The answer from the devs also changed prior to the awards show that implies that they may have had an updated interpretation of the qualification question or answer. If they thought the question was about AI use in the final product, then accidentally missing a placeholder swap shouldn’t be disqualifying. Likewise, early experimentation with the tech and then deciding not to use it probably should not disqualify either. But if the qualification is a hard yes/no with absolutely no context or consideration whatsoever, then that’s a different outcome, and hence them clarifying for the awards team.
Personally I think the hard limit without any room for consideration or interpretation is a shit qualification. Especially considering that isn’t really the case for most awards. Look at the definition of “indie” for example. There’s a half dozen different interpretations people have ranging from having to be self published, avoiding just large publishers, or just the publisher not having creative influence. That’s a lot of interpretation comparatively.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
We’re not talking about a development team of 100+ artists here and a company forcing them to work 80 hour crunch weeks leading up to launch like much of the industry.
I don’t know exactly how their 30 or so team members break down for specialties, but I’m willing to bet we’re talking maybe 5 asset artists. Making the tens or hundreds of thousands of concept art pieces, and in game assets. Their time is finite and much better spent working on final assets than making placeholders that will just be replaced later. Experimenting with AI and dripping a placeholder in during month 6 that never gets touched again, and the final asset is made but missed when swapping them in at the end of development isn’t exactly damning
Literally removing work from a human(concept artist)
It’s not really “removing” work from a human, it’s utilizing the time of a very small and limited team more wisely. The AI didn’t replace a human, there was never going to be an additional person hired just to make that placeholder, at worst it just let the existing artists spend more time making final assets.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
It was released with the original placeholder AI assets, but patched out within 5 days. It’s pretty clear that they just missed replacing those assets prior to release.
I don’t know exactly which assets, or exactly how many… but from several article it seems one of them was a newspaper only used in the prologue, that no one would notice without directly looking at it up close, which 99.9% of people would never do, and could easily be overlooked doing final testing for game breaking issues prior to release.
And the failure to properly disclose could easily be explained by them messing around. Early in development, deciding not to use AI, and then forgetting about it. Which also explains it being left in for release accidentally. Updated assets were clearly made, just never replaced.
The disqualification had nothing to do with the assets being there for the release, it was solely about development as mentioned in every statement from the awards. Meaning even if it hadn’t been there at release, they still would have been disqualified. Hard criteria like that which disqualifies any sort of context or consideration is not fair. Especially when we’re talking about cutting edge technologies that teams will obviously be experimenting with before making decisions.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
Yes. It was reported basically everywhere.
gamerant.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-no-doge-p…
Want to move that goalpost again?
- Comment on US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’ 4 weeks ago:
How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is
It’s a cult.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
Cool… Generative AI used for placeholders during development that are replaced by actual artist work for the release is the definition of responsibly.
Given these assets were replaced within days of release here… Definitely seems like placeholders that were just missed during the final checks before release.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
And yet someone completed the game without parrying a single time.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t just replace the art later. It was intended to be placeholder art from the beginning. And was replaced 5 days after release. That tells me that they just missed replacing those temporary assets among tens of thousands of assets before release.
Using GenAI for something temporary that’s not intended to be final seems like the perfect use case for it. Especially on a small team where artist time is much better spent working on the final assets.