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- Comment on CNN: Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races 3 hours ago:
Why isn’t this illegal?
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 23 hours ago:
It’s really really bad at doing spreadsheet analysis. Even basic shit that I would give to an intern. At least an intern with generally just make shit up and pretend it’s not wrong even when I point it out, and if they do I get a new intern.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 23 hours ago:
Probably AI code getting tested by AI.
- Comment on A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning" 23 hours ago:
For every fun thing you get to test there are a dozen miserable little things that you get spend entire days plodding through. And they pay you absolute dick to do it.
- Comment on What are your best memories of playing Civilization III? 2 days ago:
This is what happens to everyone who betrays me in Civ. The pixels will pay for what they have done.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 2 days ago:
I think the best modern civ is either IV or V depending on how much you just want to do a military conquest victory.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 2 days ago:
ALWAYS play one generation behind with Civ because they don’t actually finish the last game until the new one comes out. Civ 7 will probably be fine, in like a year and a half.
Honestly, one could probably just keep playing Civ 5 without missing much unless there is a specific mechanic in Civ 6 that you enjoy. If you just use it to play risk (i.e. military victories only) Civ IV is probably the best version.
- Comment on ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests 4 days ago:
Pretty sure that Grok doesn’t even pretend to be unwilling to help plan terrorism.
- Comment on ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests 4 days ago:
And the only “improvement” they can do is to manually filter responses and program rote responses to certain specific prompts. Which amounts to actually reducing the amount of LLM that reaches the surface. They are actually reverse engineering these things into more primitive chat bots with algorithmic responses, except that they cost trillions of dollars and require massive amounts of energy to run.
Its like deciding that a Ferrari is not suitable for commuting, so instead of actually building a different car, they just fill the trunk with sand and drag a trailer behind around to slow it down.
- Comment on ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests 4 days ago:
Exactly. They won’t actually change the models because they don’t understand the relationship between the input and output enough to actually target responses like this. So what they will do is add an administrative filter layer on top, but it will always be something can work around because that is the nature of that kind of filter. The whole engine is still accessibile.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 4 days ago:
No one really goes to Waffle House on purpose.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 5 days ago:
Cracking down just means I don’t watch the content, still not getting ads.
- Comment on As US Slaughters Iranian Kids, Iran Says It Does Not Want to Hurt Americans 6 days ago:
This is where America learns that sending their moron president and secdef to negotiate against a country with a higher literacy rate than the US might not work out super well.
Sure, the Iranians are no match for the American military. But how much are Americans prepared to lose in exchange for achieving Israels goals in the middle east?
- Comment on AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI 6 days ago:
Yep. Hiding post history pretty much makes Reddit useless as anything but a propaganda / astroturfing tool targeting idiots. It used to be pretty easy to identify shills and bots, and the only thing they achieved here is making it hardier to do that. Clearly that was the intent.
- Comment on This community in one meme 1 week ago:
Its like the Rodger Rabbit shave-and-a-haircut bit, but for internet losers.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
Its easy to find. Click on your username. Go to “comments,” its probably three or four down.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
Yes, this is a stupid post because it was made by a person that was called a moron, not because it was made by a person that is actually a moron.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
Its not anyone else’s job to fix you.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
Some moron on kbin.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
I see. They are douchebags because people observed they are douchebags. That makes sense, if you are a fucking moron.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
Training boys to be douchebags is why this is happening.
- Comment on Microslop 🤮 1 week ago:
No, but we did have a cross platform PC game about it:
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
This is making it pretty obvious that they are literally trying to kill the PC as a concept.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility 1 week ago:
The actual functional difference between a cheap “value” phone and a premium “flagship” phone has never been smaller than it is today. There was a time when you actually got different capabilities, actual real-world performance improvements, and longer battery life. Now the cheap phones sometimes offer BETTER features (notably, battery life) because they aren’t running as much stupid bullshit that you don’t want.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 2 weeks ago:
Its REALLY easy to just not buy their shit then.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 weeks ago:
You can do it without revealing your real identity.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 weeks ago:
I cannot even imagine giving a social media platform enough information to even do this. Maybe just don’t?
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 weeks ago:
Prime launched after the dot com crash. The reason Amazon survived is because they WEREN’T running a dozen different ventures. They were an online bookstore and people kept buying books. Amazon benefited from the crash because that was when they started buying up servers to build AWS.
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 2 weeks ago:
Venus is toxic AF.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A really significant percentage of American international tourists are retired conservatives.