Jomega
@Jomega@lemmy.world
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
Bojack, we’ve been over this. You have to be better than that.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 2 months ago:
Good riddance.
- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 2 months ago:
Don’t forget Animal Planet, which hosts shows about tree houses and mermaids now.
- Comment on Jesus could have been an antique meme à la Chuck Norris that got waaaay out of hand 2 months ago:
I mean, Hitler had an underling named Himmler. Sometimes coincidences happen.
- Comment on AI is like a hammer 4 months ago:
I have no idea what you just said.
- Comment on App development 4 months ago:
No one here is talking about how the woman in the picture looks the same in both photos? Am I missing something?
- Comment on London cinema cancels screening of AI-generated film following backlash | Evening Standard 4 months ago:
What artist? You mean the computer program? Somehow I don’t think it cares.
- Comment on All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration 5 months ago:
I didn’t know that the Switch had Twitter integration.
- Comment on An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary 6 months ago:
Stonetoss is a Nazi.
- Comment on Anime pfps rise up 8 months ago:
We’ve existed since the 80’s. The only thing recent about us is the population boom the internet gave us.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
Doesn’t it, though?
It used to normal to beat your kids. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.
This is what the players wanted, and the industry listened.
The reason we are having this conversation in the first place is because people didn’t want it.
This isn’t forced upon anybody.
They added it the game post-launch, after reviews had already come out. Anyone morally opposed to micro transactions (which as I’ll get to in next point, have a very good reason to be opposed to on principle) who had bought the game has been tricked into supporting a business practice they despise. This is incredibly scummy and should rightfully be seen as a dick move.
It only becomes a moral problem if somebody’s choices are circumvented, but that’s not really what’s happening here.
Micro transactions as a concept are strategically designed to exploit people with addictive personalities. This is not a theory on my part, this is legitimately what the intent behind them is. But don’t take my word for it, here’s a video discussing that very thing.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
Something being normalized doesn’t automatically make it morally okay.
- Comment on Average French launguage learner 9 months ago:
What the fuck did I just watch?
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 9 months ago:
Find your flame from the Sonic Frontiers ost.
- Comment on no monetization, you said a bad word 9 months ago:
Wait, what happened with Bandcamp?
- Comment on Noooooo 10 months ago:
Some of the more recent games have the music cut out when you’re underwater. IMO, this makes the countdown even worse when it finally happens.
- Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal 10 months ago:
So tech outpaces legislation, as it is wont to do since legislation is notoriously slow, and so because of that our reaction should be to throw our hands up and not even try? Perhaps you don’t sympathize as much as you think you do.
- Comment on Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. 11 months ago:
I seem to recall digital trading card games existing long before NFTs were ever thought up, so not even that works. In fact, every “use” for NFTs I’ve ever seen suggested has been something we already had that is actually easier without involving the things.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
Cats Don’t Dance. 20 years later I’m a furry.
- Comment on Why We Need An Anti-AI Movement Too 1 year ago:
Lol wat are you talking about? The amount of extractable resources on the moon itself are enough to sustain a thousand humanities
Do you have any idea how much it costs to get to and from the goddamn moon?! There’s the reason we don’t exactly make a regular thing about it. The costs are astronomical, pun very much intended.
The only thing that gets “used up” is energy
I’m not exactly a physicist, but if you’ve suddenly solved the problem of entropy then you should contact one and claim your Nobel prize. I’ll wait.
But in short, other sources of entertainment + an anti natalist culture + longer lifespans + deviation from the traditional monogamous two partner model would end up lessening the need for having kids.
You’re making a lot of assumptions about how how society will develop.
The bourgeoisie are evil, sure. Doesn’t mean that they are stupid enough to act against their own interests.
- Comment on Why We Need An Anti-AI Movement Too 1 year ago:
We already have enough resources to get us into post scarcity
No. No we don’t. This is straight delusional levels of optimism on display here. The universe is entropic by nature. Things get used up. Barring some form of miracle tech we can’t even conceive of yet, it is not possible for us to have an infinite amount of anything.
However, not implementing UBI would be bad for the billionaire class.
That’s the thing though. They aren’t smart. We have seen time and time again that they would cut off their nose to spite their face. Why would this be any different?
- Comment on Why We Need An Anti-AI Movement Too 1 year ago:
When did I say that it would be a silver bullet?
Right in your first paragraph. You straight up said that AI would lead to a post scarcity future “within a few decades”. Your words, not mine.
The rest of it
Okay, but still doesn’t explain how we make that leap. All of us losing our jobs will not suddenly generate infinite amounts of food and resources. What’s more, you seem to have a lot of confidence in the " inevitability " of UBI. There are already decades of propaganda demonizing socialism, to the point that a sizable number of people will push against it even if they have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The ultra wealthy are not exactly known for their amazing foresight either, and will also push against it even if it means the collapse of civilization. For fucks sake, we can’t even get them to agree that the planet we live on should be livable. One only needs to read the daily news to see dozens of examples of this very thing. And while all this pushback is going on, even if it does eventually lead to the implementation of UBI, shit is still going to suck for the people who just lost their jobs. I don’t think I’m in any way unjustified in being scared for the future.
- Comment on Why We Need An Anti-AI Movement Too 1 year ago:
I’ve heard many absurdly over optimistic predictions of AI’s potential, but I have to admit that “ends World hunger and solves resource depletion” is a new one. Seriously do you even know what “post scarcity” means?
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Wikipedia is a non-profit that exists for the betterment mankind. It already embodies the spirit of the fediverse, and has before the fediverse had existed as a concept. There’s no reason to burn it down for the sake of rebuilding it. Not to mention that Elon would do so much damage in the time it takes to get a working site off of the ground.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Thank you for articulating this in such an elegant way. I agree with the processed food analogy, and I don’t think I have thought about it that way before. I’m still a little wary about the future, but maybe not as much more as I was 10 minutes ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I understand that AI is a complex program and not just pressing buttons. That’s not the issue I have with it. My issue is, what happens when the technology improves significantly? It’s my understanding that LLMs keep improving themselves by continuing to train on (often unethically) acquired data. In its present form, sure, maybe we don’t have to worry. But give it 10 years or so, how much more competent will it be?
Let’s look at just the film industry for a second. We already have a huge problem with Hollywood churning out franchise films at the expense of everything else. But even these cash cows are made via the vision of someone whose name is attached to it. Somebody got paid to write Halloween 36: The Final Halloween for Real This Time. That person may or may not have gave a shit about writing a good story, or they may have just wanted a paycheck. Either way, that paycheck could be used to fund something they care about much more. Once AI reaches the point where it could spit out a passable script, what incentive does Mr. Bigshot the Hollywood producer have to involve a writer at all? And because no writer is receiving a paycheck, less risks are taken in general, because risks don’t guarantee profit
I might just be letting my anxieties get the better of me, and I really hope I am. I just can’t seem to move past the bad feeling I’m getting from this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The whole generative AI thing bums me out as someone who dabbles in writing, but for more philosophical reasons than the ones you listed. Storytelling is supposed to be something humans do to connect with one another. Art and culture are windows into our psyches. This, to me, is why art makes life worth living. It’s why we go through the hassle of maintaining our dreary and tedious obligations, because when all that is done and over with we can sit captivated and spellbound by a good tale from a talented writer.
This? This makes little sense to me. You’re telling me they made a computer program that uses pattern recognition to write and draw for us? Okay, why? This goes against what I always assumed art was for. There’s more to storytelling than just pattern recognition. There’s themes, emotions, metaphor, allegory, messages, politics, and so much more. A computer program doesn’t understand any of that, it just follows it’s programming.
Tech bros insist that AI is not going to take our jobs, but as long as we live under capitalism I don’t buy it. A lot of the people who work in publishing or producing are just doing it for the money. They don’t give a shit about whether the stories are good, only that they are profitable. If you don’t think that they are going to jump at the chance to create product without paying anyone for it, then I have a bridge to sell you. Creators need to eat too. The phrase “starving artist” exists for a reason.
We were supposed to create robots that would handle manual labor so that we could all be free to pursue our passions. Now they have robots creating art while we continue to do manual labor. It’s not the future I wanted to live in.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
You should look into how much YT actually does for its “partners”. It’s barely anything if you aren’t Markiplier tier famous, and if you do anything even mildly upsetting the almighty advertisers (which can anything from using a curse word, to acknowledging the existence of death, to literally no reason at all in some cases) then they take away even that. That’s why everyone has Patreon accounts and sponsors. Because relying on Google to provide for the people who keep their platform alive is a losing game, so they need to seek other sources of revenue than their cut of the ad money.
- Comment on You know it, I know it, we all know it. 1 year ago:
Gen 3 came out in 2003. That was 20 years ago. If you don’t at least recognize Groudon (one of gen 3’s box art legendary Pokémon) then that’s on you.
- Comment on Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email 1 year ago:
Their games get delayed because they actually finish them before release. They’re one of the last AAA publishers who still believe in quality control. This is a very bad take.