DarkThoughts

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally don't see that much of an issue of people making "nudes" of others since they're fake anyway. I see an issue when they're used for things like bullying, blackmail, etc. That is technically already illegal, just not well enforced for any sort of digital topic and hasn't been for over a couple of decades now. Hence why I find the attention the LLM stuff gets exceptionally hypocritical and overblown, because non of them really cared when someone simply got cyberbullied, or blackmailed through classically edited images - let alone screamed for the outlawing of editing software or social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German lawmakers support plans to protect Ukrainian airspace from NATO territory by means of Western air defense⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And here comes the Ruscists weekly nuclear threat. Yawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German lawmakers support plans to protect Ukrainian airspace from NATO territory by means of Western air defense⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think launching defensive measures for an ally is provocative, then how do you view & call launching offensive measures through imperialistic ambitions within a peaceful independent country?
  If Russia wants to avoid a conflict with NATO, maybe they should just avoid their illegal aggression and retreat back to within their own borders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German lawmakers support plans to protect Ukrainian airspace from NATO territory by means of Western air defense⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
  1. It's not a move, let alone a provocative one, it's a discussion.
  2. Germany is very much cooperating and talking with other NATO members, including those at the eastern borders.
  3. Germany is an independent country and does not need some sort of "NATO permit" to do things if they choose to do so.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm saying there's not really anything more I can do when it comes to EA. The company is already completely down the shitter for me and they're the ones who would have to gain my trust back. That's the only possible development.
  The problem is that many people don't have a similar spine for actual principles like this, and the majority of people simply don't even care. That's why this rotten company is not just still a thing, but continues to do what they've done for the last couple decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I could see some people making the argument that it could be considered defamatory especially in cases where it is being peddled as real.

  Hard sell overall imo. But in any sort of malicious case we should punish the people behind it, not the software used to make it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  EA is on my boycott list since Origin & ME3. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  to the extent that it doesn’t violate the law or other peoples’ rights

  Am I the only one who finds this so weird when we talk about LLMs? If someone makes a bot that resembles some specific person, that person's rights aren't really violated, and since they're all fictional content, it is very hard to break actual laws through its content.
  At that point we would have to also ban people's weird fan fiction, no?

  Not arguing about whatever they want or don't want on their platform, but the legal & alleged moral questions / arguments always weird me out a bit, because there's no one actually getting hurt in any sort of way by weirdos having weird chats with computers.

  The bigger issue is the enforcement. Either you monitor an absurd amount of content, which is worse for privacy, or you straight up censor the models, which makes them typically restrictive even in valid cases / scenarios being played out (other platforms went through this, with a consequential loss of users).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Janitor, like most "free" models, degrades too quickly for my liking. And if I pay I might as well use NovelAI + Sillytavern, since they don't have any restrictions on their text gen models that could interfere with their generation. Local models I didn't had much luck with getting them to run and I suspect they'd be pretty slow too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Erotic text messages could be considered pornographic work I guess, like erotic literature. But I think they just start to realize how many of their customers jailbreak GPT for that specific purpose, and how good alternatives have gotten who allow for this type of chat, such as NovelAI. Given how many other AI services started to censor things and how much that affected their models (like your chat bot partner getting stuck in consent messages as soon as you went into anything slightly outside vanilla territory), and how much drama that has caused throughout those communities, I highly doubt that "loosening" their policy is going to be enough to sway people towards them instead of the competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s not impossible for someone to have heard about assguard, looked it up, and then realized it’s “Asgard”.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky Thor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it is coming anytime soon. Especially since the updated version just came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that sounds like Death Stranding on a horse in 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Loverslab: 👀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That does look good. Though, I'm not sure the DLC ever go on sale since they are only available through the package deal. The store page for them is kinda weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 95 hours in basic Isaac and 235 hours in Rebirth (And I know that's also on the lower end of things for quite a few other Isaac players).
  I've not played Afterbirth+, let alone Repentance, since by the time I already kinda was so out of the game that I didn't want to re-learn it, but if I did that would likely add quite a few more hours onto it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm curious if they improved the builds. Coming from Isaac I was not so hot on Hades if I'm gonna be honest. Got burned out fairly quickly after not even 40 hours because it was very repetitive and I never felt like I could really build towards anything during the runs, while the story seemed to crawl to a halt as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately one of those things that does not work on kbin / mbin yet. I've not seen it this heavily outside of this specific community though. Fairly recently another article was basically ~12 out of 25 or so comments from hexbear accounts.
  Maybe all the other instances who host the other news communities just defederated from them and that's why I don't see them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Go back to your Tankie safe space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Another thread on this community and yet another Hexbear Tankie brigade spreading disinformation...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and everyone having their own exclusives. I'm neither paying hundreds of bucks for a gazillion streaming services per month, nor am I juggling subscriptions between them like some sort of puzzle game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does color change how hot a laser can get something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's different wavelengths. It's our eyes that fail to actually be able to see in certain ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NATO sounds alarm over 'hostile' Russian activity across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you gonna do something about the obvious hexbear brigade in this thread or no? Like, about half the comments are all from the same Tankie instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NATO sounds alarm over 'hostile' Russian activity across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you really triggered them clowns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately true. The majority of people do not have enough of a spine, or simply don't even care. That's why the market gets shittier and shittier each year for the past couple decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the people who read terms and conditions the same people who pre-heat their ovens? 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Confidentially incorrect. (Before someone wants to correct me, it's intentional.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we're all still working on Windows 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All three remastered Mass Effect games and their DLC are 90% off on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Origin and ME3's exclusivity was exactly the last straw for me when it came to EA and what caused them to be on my boycott list ever since. People keep saying we should "encourage" the company by buying the stuff the do right, but I just don't see any effort in that regards and I also don't see how that makes up for all the shit they have pulled over the last couple decades. They ruined so many games, franchises and studios, so why should I rewards them with my money? It's up to EA to make some proper concessions and do better first, and then we'll see whether they can win me back as a customer or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s EV and Solar Exports Are Powering Ahead as Prices Slide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Both can have their pros and cons depending on type, use case and circumstances which need to be weighted against each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The huge life-sim Life by You from Paradox hits Early Access on June 4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it will be fitting if they cost about as much as the whole Sims package with its DLCs. lol
  Honestly though, the videos they released did not fill me with confidence either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s EV and Solar Exports Are Powering Ahead as Prices Slide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you realize that they're a) very centralized and b) require a lot of empty space in a suitable location that isn't better used for something else and c) consequently cockblocked by various regulations & NIMBYs. Meanwhile we have cities full of rooftops, facades, balconies, parking lots, and much much more other surface areas that are just sitting there without being utilized. It's right there where the energy is also consumed, lowering bills and creating massive interconnected energy storage in the process.