WatDabney
@WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 1 week ago:
No - I don’t agree that they’re completely different.
“Made by AI” would be completely different.
“Made with AI” actually means pretty much the exact same thing as “AI was used in this image” - it’s just that the former lays it out baldly and the latter softens the impact by using indirect language.
I can certainly see how “photographers” who use AI in their images would tend to prefer the latter, but bluntly, fuck 'em. If they can’t handle the shame of the fact that they did so they should stop doing it - get up off their asses and invest some tome and effort into doing it all themselves. And if they can’t manage that, they should stop pretending to be artists.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
I’m roundaboutly reminded of one of my favorite novels - Greener Than You Think, by Ward Moore.
It’s a science fiction story about the end of the world. The proximate cause of the end is all of the landmasses of Earth being smothered by a gigantic and very aggressive strain of Bermuda grass, but the real cause is the utter and complete failure, due to ignorance, greed, selfishness, short-sightedness, incompetence, arrogance and so on, of every attempt to combat it.
- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 1 week ago:
Dredge.
A very simple concept and gameplay loop that expands out into the bizarre and fantastic.
Honorable mention: Ronin.
Bullet time, effectively turn-based ninja combat. Simple, regularly autosaved “go until you die, then try something different” gameplay loop and just a helluva lot of fun.
Honorable mention: Valley.
Smooth first-person mecahanically-enhanced parkouring along the way to investigating the mysteries - both ancient and more recent - of a unique and very picturesque valley.
- Comment on Brexit Britain wants to be the snooping capital of the West 2 months ago:
England’s already the snooping capital of the west, isn’t it?
It seems that every time a new privacy-invading technology comes floating down the pike, England just instantly adopts it. They don’t even hesitate -it’s like, “Ooh… new survellance technology? I’ll take that one and that one and that one and… you know what? Just give me the lot!”
And every time, I cynically reflect on the fact that Orwell was English.
- Comment on Hamas and Iran celebrate anti-Gaza war protests taking US colleges by storm 2 months ago:
Is there still anyone in your office from the old RipplingRiver days on IMDb?
- Comment on Hamas and Iran celebrate anti-Gaza war protests taking US colleges by storm 2 months ago:
A cynically unsurprising article.
When you’re determined to condemn someone who has the moral high ground, guilt by association is the most effective fallacy.
- Comment on Iran launches drones at Israel in retaliatory attack - BBC News 2 months ago:
This isn’t a military action - it’s political theater.
- Comment on Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident 4 months ago:
No surprise there.
There was never even the slightest chance that that balloon could pass through US airspace unobserved, and China possesses FAR more effective, secure and difficult-at-best methods with which to spy. So very obviously, it was intended to be discovered. And presuming that to be the case, the important bit then was the reaction its discovery would trigger.
So it was safe to presume from the start (as I did) that some significant part of the social media noise about it was simple astroturfing explicitly intended solely to further whatever response whoever wanted.
- Comment on People buried at 'mega' stone tombs in Spain were defleshed and their bones fractured after death 6 months ago:
Is it bad that I’m cynically unsurprised that this was in Spain?