QuadratureSurfer
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- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 2 days ago:
I doubt it would work well, but with enough training data it would be able to pick up on some areas. Especially if there are large landmarks in the frame (mountains/hills/rivers, etc.).
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 2 days ago:
One interesting alternative would be the Visual Positioning System (VPS) that Niantic has built from Pokemon go player data. Basically you can take a picture outside and your phone will know exactly where you are:
www.nianticspatial.com/locate#vps
arstechnica.com/…/niantic-uses-pokemon-go-player-…
Too bad they’re getting close to being bought out by a company that’s notorious for squeezing out every penny from their player base.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 3 days ago:
I did a quick search but couldn’t find any issue with their anticheat.
From what I could find, it’s not a kernel level anticheat.
As far as damaging hardware, reading from a drive doesn’t really degrade it much at all, the bigger concern there would be if it was writing to your drive a ton (but honestly you should worry more about Window’s Page File system since that makes it possible to use your storage drive as RAM).
I found a post from one player on the steam forums with concerns about the anticheat because their system kept crashing, but that sounded more like an isolated incident (or more likely related to the Intel CPU issue that was confirmed that same year).
There is a highly upvoted review for the game which has concerns about the anticheat reading all files on a drive and “overloading your processors (ignoring frame-rate caps and going past it).”
I agree that reading every file on a drive is concerning, I’d rather any anticheat stick to just the game’s folders itself.
However, I’m wary about their understanding of programs/computers if they think that anti-cheat software should be limited by, or has anything to do with frame-rate caps. Also, they don’t provide a source for any of their information or how they tested it.
Most other cocerns about anti-cheat quoted that same review in one way or another.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 3 days ago:
Yeah, you can see it here:
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Dark_and_Darker/ - Submitted 3 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online 4 days ago:
I looked into this a bit more and here’s a quick video of someone testing out the demo that they have online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7iyWO8XaT0Direct link to the demo itself:
sesame.com/…/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice… - Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 1 week ago:
Relevant VLDL video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XvzlHuqlXY
- Comment on The German Federal Cartel Office has concerns about the current form of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Framework (Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself). 3 weeks ago:
That’s just what Apple wants you to think:
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- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 2 months ago:
Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That’s better than what I expected to happen.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 months ago:
For the specs of what it is and what else is out there, it’s actually a really good price.
People like to compare it to the cheapest headsets out there, but it has specs that beat the highest end headsets out there and it’s cheaper than those.
When the Apple Vision pro came out, the closest device sporting similar specs would be the Varjo XR-3 which was only available to Enterprise users. It cost $7k plus a $1500 yearly subscription, plus you needed a powerful computer to run it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=REo1ugX5GSI
Basically, hardware wise, it’s good, but for it’s actual uses it’s not worth the $3500.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Head Claims Team Isn't Close To Being Done With Game's Content 3 months ago:
I’m hoping a lot of the work they’re putting into Light No Fire will be brought back into No Man’s Sky, and that this will be a part of that.
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 3 months ago:
The physical copy comes with some goodies, or else you can pre-order through GoG, Steam, Epic Games, MS Store, or Xbox.
- Comment on Vehicle combat in Scaravan 66 looks nuts and I want it now 3 months ago:
Direct link to the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=InEY6skrfl8 - Comment on Why is Nintendo targeting this YouTuber? 4 months ago:
But he does have a guess as to why Nintendo targeted him. The first copyright strike landed on his video about the MIG Dumper and the MIG Flash, a pair of devices that let you turn genuine Nintendo Switch cartridges into digital files and then carry around an entire library of those ROMs in a special microSD-equipped flash cartridge for your console. I’ve watched the video, and while Crandall does explicitly take an anti-piracy stance, it’s easy to imagine these gadgets being used by bad actors, too.
“I think the first strike was simply due to the fact that they wanted to minimize attention around the MIG Flash cartridge and dumper […]"
Looks like he also mirrors his channel on Odysee, so the removed videos can still be seen here: odysee.com/…/mig-flash-v2-and-cartridge-dumper-re…
- Comment on AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish. 4 months ago:
I understand, that definitely makes sense then.
- Comment on AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish. 4 months ago:
This isn’t an article about mistranslations.
This is an article focusing on how asking about US election questions in Spanish will give you answers that are for the wrong country, or just wrong in most cases when compared to asking the same question in English.
One example is that, if someone in Puerto Rico were to ask ChatGPT 4/Claude/Gemini/Llama/Mixtral a US Election question, it would respond with information for Venezuela/Mexico/Spain instead.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 4 months ago:
Same, I’d say it’s way better than most other transcription tools I’ve used, but it does need to be monitored to catch when it starts going off the rails.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 4 months ago:
Whisper isn’t a large language model.
It’s a speech to text (STT) model.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 4 months ago:
As someone who uses Whisper fairly often, it’s obvious that they’ve trained off of a bunch of YouTube videos.
Most of the time it’s very accurate, but there have definitely been a few times in long transcription sessions where it will randomly hallucinate that someone is saying “Don’t forget to like and subscribe!” When nothing was said anywhere near that.
- Comment on Anthropic's AI can now run and write code 4 months ago:
Ok, this is a bit more than what the title implies. This isn’t just outputting the code in text, but rather the ability to verify its own answers before responding to the user asking questions using code.
Claude could attempt these tasks before. But, because it lacked a mechanism to mathematically verify the results, the answers weren’t always incredibly accurate.
So now if you ask it a math question or for it to create some visual bar chart, it will actually do the work to verify that what it’s saying is valid.
I’m sure there will still be ways to trip it up, but this is a good step forward.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 4 months ago:
It wouldn’t bother me if you were still able to earn the mount in-game.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Launch Trailer 4 months ago:
Looks like they’re also planning on releasing without any DRM:
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 months ago:
What do you mean?
All I see are hearts and love ❤️❤️❤️❤️. /s - Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 4 months ago:
You’re right, whether it’s AI generated or not doesn’t matter.
This is a copyright infringment matter in which “Fair Use” will become a major factor. fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/…/four-factors/
In this case, if the courts rule in favor of Alcon there’s a danger that this expands how copyright law is judged and future cases can use that ruling in their favor. It would make it a lot easier for them to only prove that someone wanted an image that “looks like” even when the image wouldn’t normally be held to that level of scrutiny at face value.
You’re right that there are other factors at play here:
The “Hollywood talent pool market generally is less likely to deal with Alcon, or parts of the market may be, if they believe or are confused as to whether, Alcon has an affiliation with Tesla or Musk,” the complaint said.
They are absolutely concerned that Musk is trying to associate his product with Blade Runner and if the case hinges on the association rather than the image in question then I don’t see a problem with that.
But it’s very concerning that the image itself seems to be a major factor in this case, specifically that they are accusing “(WBD) of conspiring with Musk and Tesla to steal the image and infringe Alcon’s copyright”.
So you saying that anything AI generated that is similar to something else will get sued for copyright infringement makes no sense, unless you can already do that for hand drawn images.
Yes, you can already sue someone else for copyright infringment with hand drawn images. What matters for the decision are a number of factors (as listed out on that link to fair use) one of them being how closely your drawing resembles the copyrighted material. Here’s an article about a photographer who successfully sued a painter who plagiarized her work: boingboing.net/…/photographer-wins-lawsuit-agains…
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 4 months ago:
@kameecoding@lemmy.world exactly this.
In the U.S. we have what’s known as a legal" precedent". If a court case makes a decision on something, it massively increases the chances that other courts will use that same decision in similar future cases.
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 4 months ago:
The producers think the image was likely generated—“even possibly by Musk himself”—by “asking an AI image generation engine to make ‘an image from the K surveying ruined Las Vegas sequence of Blade Runner 2049,’ or some closely equivalent input direction,” the lawsuit said.
In my opinion, I hope that this lawsuit fails. I know that the movie industry already follows similar practices to what Musk has done. If a studio goes to a certain musician and the price is too high to include their music in the show, they’ll go to a different artist and ask them to create a song that sounds like the song that they originally wanted.
If this lawsuit succeeds it’s going to open the door for them to sue anyone that makes art that’s remotely close to their copyrighted work. All they will need to do is claim that it “might have been created by AI with a prompt specifying our work” without actually having to have any proof beforehand.
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 4 months ago:
- Comment on Here’s Gary Oldman fighting space Goombas in over an hour of new Star Citizen Squadron 42 gameplay 4 months ago:
Here’s a direct link to the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-0x4xk2Xk
- Comment on Many companies won't say if they'll comply with California's AI training transparency law 5 months ago:
It would be interesting to see just how often Instagram sold its users’ images to companies creating generative image models.
I see a lot of artists complaining that their work was used for training, but they also agreed to upload their photos to a company along with a royalty free license.
