CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 6 hours ago:
It‘s terrible and sad. Even more so because AI still gets things wrong all the time.
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 21 hours ago:
Tinkering in this way with someone‘s work should be regarded as copyright infringement regardless of what their TOS say. It shouldn‘t be allowed and Youtube should pay up big time for this theft. But of course this is probably not how it‘s going to be handled because Google is mega rich and the law does not apply to AI somehow.
- Comment on ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union 2 days ago:
Working for a billion dollar company is the only reason you need here. There are far more of course but that should be enough reason.
- Comment on ‘Even after 20 years, I still cry’: the enduring brilliance of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 2 days ago:
That could be a reason to not discuss the game, though. It‘s probably not as rough or memeable.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 2 days ago:
I mean yeah and that‘s very unfortunate. Users need more control about these things. This is as rushed as Youtube‘s automatic translation slop. Most people speak more than one language. When will Americans learn that?
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 3 days ago:
That will backfire hard when AAA gaming implodes next year and consumers will demand quality over quantity. But I expected no less from a bunch of execs high on profits who never even booted up a game in their life. The bonus crap they promise you for a pre-order at the end of many trailers paint a grim picture.
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 3 days ago:
It will mean they’ll offer less, cost more and have even more bugs and crashes.
- Comment on ‘Even after 20 years, I still cry’: the enduring brilliance of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 3 days ago:
I haven‘t played it but it‘s arguably the least discussed Metal Gear Solid game. At least people talk about 4 and 5. 3 literally just sits in the middle and sort of… exists.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 3 days ago:
What is „my language“? Because depending on where the game is from this changes. Have they thought of that? Because I know from experience that US companies cannot comprehend speaking more than one language.
- Comment on Roblox faces scrutiny after banning YouTuber ‘Schlep' amid ongoing controversy 3 days ago:
I hope the whole platform shuts down. Roblox is a shit stain on the online gaming industry and that‘s saying something. Everyone will be better off without it.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 4 days ago:
When your mom briefly mentions hers and you realize your conversations have been recorded for god knows how long.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 5 days ago:
We’re far more than that. We are having a conversation, transmitting our thoughts through space and time. It’s like telepathy, really. Word salad machines could never pull that off.
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees 5 days ago:
Literally scheduled stupidity. I’m actually surprised they were this upfront with it being AI and reacted this quickly to backlash. This could’ve gotten a lot worse with a lesser understanding team believe it or not.
- Comment on TikTokers are calling LA ICE raids 'music festivals' to trick the algorithm 5 days ago:
Good on you for making that realization. Most TikTok users I encounter do not have that level of self-reflection. I‘m not sure if I would have it if I ever installed it. I mean when you‘re constantly surrounded by the algorithmic equivalent of yes-men on TikTok, any opposition outside your bubble must look like a glitch. It seems pretty tough to break out of that.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
It will never happen on a large scale. Not as long as there is this much money to be made. I have no doubts these freaks will keep trying and make our lives harder, though.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 6 days ago:
It doesn‘t know that it doesn‘t know because it doesn‘t actually know anything. Most models are trained on posts from the internet like this one where people rarely ever just chime in to admit they don‘t have an answer anyway. If you don‘t know something you either silently search the web for an answer or ask.
So since users are the ones asking ChatGPT, the LLM mimics the role of a person that knows the answer. It only makes sense AI is a „confidently wrong“ powerhouse.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 6 days ago:
Hell, he‘s the single main driver. What stupid times we live in.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
They‘ll try again if they succeed in this.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
Did you read the second part of my comment and thought about the implications?
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
I actually doubt Google wants shitty newspapers that are stuck in the last century to dictate how the internet works. Next step is that Google has to show them in the results and pay them on top or stop operating entirely. They won‘t stop until they‘re either bankrupt or the internet is toast.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
Germany is the biggest economy in Europe and if this somehow passes it could spill over to the EU commission in no time. The Brussels effect could then take care of the rest. Laughing off fascist laws because they do not affect you right now is exactly the reaction fascists like them want you to have so they can corner you.
- Comment on AI Is Power-Hungry and consumers are paying the price 1 week ago:
You don‘t even need to be a consumer to pay the price of a burning planet. That‘s the beauty of late stage capitalism: Losses are distributed so wonderfully evenly…
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
Or work with them. Or hire them. And I don‘t even know what they do.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 week ago:
The „companion“ agents children in the 2020s and onward are growing up with and trust more than their parents will start advertising them pharmaceuticals when they‘re grown up :)
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 week ago:
I would even hate it if it was exactly how it is marketed. Because what it is often marketed for is really stupid and often vague. The fact that it doesn‘t even remotely work like they say just makes me take it a lot less seriously.
- Comment on 'We were never friends': A massacre on the eve of WW2 still haunts China-Japan relations 1 week ago:
Japan (like most countries, including China) didn‘t do a good job at working out it‘s past. It‘s the usual „let‘s sweep it under a rug and forget about it“ approach that is often very convenient at the time but comes to bite you back later.
However, I see the CCPs never ending stream of blatantly racist and deeply hateful propaganda as the main driver of their complicated relationship these days. There is nothing Japan can do now to make the Chinese government stop broadcasting lies 24/7 on state television.
Because a lot of these propaganda movies are full of lies, especially about the role of the People‘s Liberation Army in the war. The truth is Mao hid in the mountains and sat it out before he lead the civil war. He even thanked Japan for weakening China. Thanked them for their atrocities. It didn‘t take long for the new government to produce endless propaganda movies depicting the CCP as a hero who somehow fought the Japanese.
So yeah I‘m a little bit annoyed how well this propaganda seems to work even beyond China‘s borders.
- Comment on It's Time We Talked about Disco Elysium, Again - People Make Games 1 week ago:
I think it‘s very one sided again unfortunately because only one side is interviewed. Although it is interesting to hear how much harm the writers receive through corporate bullshittery. Given how ZA/UM started out and where this odyssey has headed since I‘d say this is nothing short of a modern Greek tragedy about greed and selling out.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
Just wait until you learn how many leftists are still on Xitter even after
202420202019201820172016 when it was Trumps main outlet to win the election. - Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
Meta is one big scam is what I‘m taking away from the last decade.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
Am I missing something here? The quotes from said lead don‘t mention „the next Windows“ anywhere. He‘s just thinking out loud about what he thinks working on a computer will be like 5 years from now. This is click bait and I wouldn‘t be surprised if they quietly change the title later on after they farmed enough clicks. Awful.