Thirdborne

@Thirdborne@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Is Faking AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine living in India and witnessing American consumption intimately is your job. That’s a special kind of cruelty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More than that. They own the content and relationships and can use them in ways you cannot predict. LLMs gobble up human produced content because we entrusted it to corporations. What hit hardest for me was when Facebook published a study where they found they could influence users attitude by prioritizing certain posts in their feeds.

  Imagine it. Corporations owning your relationships and using them to get a profit out of you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When it comes to misinformation I always remember when I was a kid I’m the early 90s, another kid told me confidently that the USSR had landed on Mars, gathered rocks, filmed it and returned to earth(it now occurs to me that this homeschooled kid was confusing the real moon landing.) I remember knowing it was bullshit but not having a way to check the facts. The Internet solved that problem. Now, by God , the Internet has recreated the same problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an ethically shitty and exploitative funding model, but if you look at the gameplay, you’ll see the appeal of buying the $45 game package. Very few people stop at though. No matter how much you hear that spending more is unnecessary, they’ve built a system of incremental spending and incentives that draw people ever deeper.

  The insane thing is that the supposed final vision sounds incredibly tedious in a way that I doubt most people would ever actually play it. For the sake of immersion, you will have to physically move every item from spare sets of armour to bulk cargo for transport jobs. There is a light survival mechanic of hydration and nutrition, but personal hygiene is also planned. Upgrading ships will mean physically pulling components and replacing them, but the real gains will be in the subcomponents!

  Maybe that sounds fun as a vision statement, but I assure you, after losing that hand loaded, hand upgraded ship to bugs or exploits for the third time, the joy will all be gone.

  I suppose it’s lucky that none of their vision or promises ever come to pass. Anyway. You want my referral code?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are exceptions to the notion that competition is good. If we attempt to map out all the exceptions, we will be left with mumbo jumbo. Economic libertarianism is the true death of the brain. Some monopolies are good and any threat to the monopoly is a threat to the consumer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen. Some of us have our life savings in our Steam library. If competition ever drives Steam bankrupt, we go down with the ship! We take Steam’s health personally and very seriously. Your mumbo jumbo about competition doesn’t factor into it.