kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 1 day ago:
Yeah, I never used it, except to follow links from lemmy/reddit, but even those acquaintances of mine that did use it, gradually stopped since Musk took over, with the last few leaving it around a year ago.
(My vocally pro-LGBT workplace also switched to other platforms bc our engagement noticeably dropped around that time. Either due some Musk-induced algorithm shenanigans or just users leaving in droves.)
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 1 day ago:
that’s just sad
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 days ago:
who tf still uses Xitter…
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 5 days ago:
good!
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
Artists tend to have websites where they sell their music or link to places where they sell it.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.
Absolutely. It seems like 90% of the issues we have in society is because of this fucked-up economic system :/
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
That was the point I was trying to make too. The question of “is it theft” is moot, it still causes harm.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
For me it boils down to: were the artists, whose work was used to build the large commercial models, asked about this and agreed to it? No.
Piracy only affects existing work, genAI affects all the future artwork they would try to make a living from. See AI hitting cultural sector hard: Fifth of freelance artists have lost income, work | NL Times
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
Reality is that people on platforms like Reddit or Lemmy (or the tech side of the Fediverse in general) can be incredibly fervent about their AI hate, but they don’t represent the average people, whose work has become ever so slightly more convenient thanks to AI
According to research, the overwhelming majority of gamers across all ages and genders do hate genAI though:
In a recent survey, we explored gamers’ attitudes towards the use of Gen AI in video games and whether those attitudes varied by demographics and gaming motivations. The overwhelmingly negative attitude stood out compared to other surveys we’ve run over the past decade.
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Overall, the attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games is very negative. 85% of respondents have a below-neutral attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games, with a highly-skewed 63% who selected the most negative response option. - Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
I still don’t like it. The models being built on non-consensually scraped artwork has been known from the very start. If they still thought these were ok to use, I don’t really want to get involved with their output… It’s the same as when a company quickly pull the genAI art when busted, “oops we didn’t mean to include it” - then maybe don’t use it in the first place?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
wait it used genAI? It’s coming off my wishlist… :/
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
Thanks for the recs!
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
I was a Waterfox Classic user for a few years, while I weaned myself off classic extensions, and I’m grateful for that option. Then it started to lag more and more behind in development, and an increasing number of sites were broken in it, so I went back to vanilla Firefox, but now I wonder if I’ll return to Waterfox if this LLM-craze continues…
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
I like the convenience for languages I don’t speak, but when I checked it for Hungarian (that I do speak) the results are so much worse than Google Translate or DeepL, basically literal translation word-by-word, often completely losing the meaning and tone of the sentence.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I recall an estimation that about 1/20 players leave a review, but this probably depends a lot on genre and other factors.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing your experiences, it’s definitely good to hear daily life is not as scary as it may seem from news coverage.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Mass shootings are still proportionally a lot more common than in similar countries:
There were 109 public mass shootings in the United States and 35 public mass shootings in 35 other economically and politically comparative countries between 2000 and 2022. The United States makes up 33 percent of the combined population of these 36 countries; however, it also accounts for 76 percent of public mass shooting incidents and 70 percent of victim fatalities in these countries. (source)
The USA has about 5 times the general (non-suicide) homicide rate compared to the UK.
Add to that the 20 times higher gun ownership rate between USA and Scotland, plus the mental health crisis and extreme political polarisation, and I would rather just not be there, you know 🤷
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
True! How could I have forgotten!
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Haha this was me, except even around age 20, when I moved to the UK, I was thinking I might want to move to the USA later in life. But the more I’ve learned about the country since, the less I want to live there. The gun mania, the religion mania, the actual political options being all squeezed into the centre-to-far-right spectrum all sound nightmarish. (Tbh we’re kinda having that last issue in the UK too, but to a less extreme degree.)
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
reason #2 why I would never visit that country
(#1 is the mass shootings and gun mania)
(tbh the only thing I’d want to visit to begin with are the giant sequoia in California)
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 weeks ago:
Poe’s law 🥴
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 weeks ago:
I don’t mean to be a dick, but all you’ve done with your comments is make life a little more difficult for those with accessibility needs.
It’s not even just people using screen readers, it makes sighted people have to do extra mental work too. Whenever I come across a thorn character, it distracts me from processing the actual meaning of their comment, and I just give up the effort after a few sentences. (Case in point: I just skipped the 2nd half of their comment and read yours instead 😅)
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 weeks ago:
I want to know if AI was used or not to make a game; it’s a deciding factor for me, as I will not buy anything built with AI. No matter if it’s a placeholder or not
Same. Once they dipped into the convenience, I can’t believe they wouldn’t use it again when they’re in a rush, crunching, etc.
I don’t even touch games with AI-generated store assets, they just feel so cringeworthy. If you can’t afford an artist, just use assets from the game ffs.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad for those disclosures (because I’m not touching AI games), but tons of devs don’t disclose their AI usage, even in obvious cases, leaving us to guessing :/
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 weeks ago:
It did :P
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 weeks ago:
Maybe not worth it for you, but I’m enjoying them too much to ditch them 🤷
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 weeks ago:
^ This, I had to be dragged kicking and screaming from 7 to 10, and now looking forward to another 3 years of Win10 security updates, while fervently praying that Adobe and my online games develop Linux support in that time >_>
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 4 weeks ago:
Oh this might be what pushes larger companies to drop kernel level anticheat! That would remove the main issue that keeps my gaming on Windows.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 4 weeks ago:
I guess Genshin also counts. The monetisation is horrible, the character designs are facepalm-worthy, the localisation is so bad it makes me wince, Paimon is the worst, but damn, I love the exploration gameplay, landscapes and music 🤷 (Also it helps that I’m f2p, so at least I’m not supporting Hoyo’s predatory practices…)
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 4 weeks ago:
all those Artifex Mundi hidden object games :D
They’re essentially reskins of the same simplistic gameplay and weak stories for like 15 years, but sometimes I still get in the mood for one :D
I love the better ones’ environmental art, but I’d be wary to pick up ones made in the last few years bc I’m pretty sure they started to use AI as soon as it became available, due to the conveyor belt nature of the genre.
EDIT: Ok apparently I was wrong, and they just altogether stopped releasing their games on PC since the pandemic O.o