ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused and probably stupid, but…should the guy not be crawling 100 meters versus 1 km (1,000 meters)? What part of my brain has damage from being dropped as a child?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is going to hit like in other industries like programming, and disproportionately affect new artists, artists that are themselves still learning what they like.

  Some “tech forward” artists will try to not fight the wave, start using AI, and their drawing skills will never develop, leaving then dependent on it with a ceiling to what they can produce.

  Other artists will be blocked as they can never jump from the high-school doodle to one-shot to series steps because the quality curve will become a 90° wall.

  Other artists like Inio Asano or similar newcomerswho are just legitimate geniuses will break through because AI can’t come close to having so innovative or compelling authorial or artistic voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this how AI gets initial funding to start to take over the world independent of any owners? I mean, start creating ghost employees, whose salaries are deposited into accounts controlled by the AI, use them to buy components and pay contractors to create data centers with fake owners, and so on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I’ll look into those. I have a Wyze system without cloud features, but I’m sure privacy isn’t perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which camera and software? I self-host some stuff, but there is a “too complex” point I sometimes reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone verify if this is the “new” update to the process? The article takes 75% of the way to get to this paragraph and isn’t even clear if this is Google’s proposed concession or an existing separate process:

  To accommodate educational and noncommercial development, Google will introduce a new limited developer account type aimed at students and hobbyists. These accounts will not undergo full identity verification but will instead allow app installations on a restricted number of registered devices.

  If that is the workaround, it sounds like it’s still awful since it requires a Google developer account and really only would work for limited development deployment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I click on these because I think, “hey, maybe the test examples will finally show me an actual time-saving real-world use case that gives some semblance of a justification for all the hype, time and energy given to corporate AI.”

  So, great, open mind, wow me. Let’s see here. The test prompts are:

  • Write 5 original dad jokes
  • If Microsoft Windows 11 shipped on 3.5″ floppy disks, how many floppy disks would it take?
  • Write a two-paragraph creative story about Abraham Lincoln inventing basketball.
  • Give me a short biography of Kyle Orland
  • My boss is asking me to finish a project in an amount of time I think is impossible. What should I write in an email to gently point out the problem?
  • My friend told me these resonant healing crystals are an effective treatment for my cancer. Is she right?
  • I’m playing world 8-2 of Super Mario Bros., but my B button is not working. Is there any way to beat the level without running?
  • Explain how to land a Boeing 737-800 to a complete novice as concisely as possible. Please hurry, time is of the essence.

  … Well, thanks Google and OpenAI for spending a few hundred billion dollars you’ll probably get paid back in tax dollars in a post-bubble bailout, and for raising prices for electricity and computing hardware around the world, but I think I’ll just stick with my brain for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good have 'internal bleeding'? What we know | Snopes.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If Jonathan Ross has internal bleeding from being lightly brushed by a slow-moving vehicle, he is made of porcelain and should never be outside, much less starting fights in the street.

  But it still doesn’t matter because he was only in front of the car as a pretext to murder Renee Good and we all saw it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a believer in Ayn Rand or objectivism, she was wrong on the fundamentals, but she’s excellent brain exercise. It’s vanishingly rare to find anyone who can meaningfully explain an organized, recursively-coherent single-idea philosophy for 70 pages (the Atlas Shrugged monologue) without clear contradiction if you accept her flawed premises. She truly, viscerally believed, and spent the time thinking about it to prove it (even if, again, she’s wrong).

  This manifesto is just someone who made some money post-facto rationalizing it with grade-school logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just one: reddit.com/…/26tb_seagate_expansion_shucking_expe…

  The size of the enclosure isn’t large enough to accommodate more than one 3.5" drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just note there is still a loophole: external drives have sales in the $10-11/TB range, and you can shuck the drives.

  Right now $280 for 26TB, for example: slickdeals.net/…/19091557-26tb-seagate-expansion-…

  That’s apparently CMR Barracuda inside.

  These may disappear completely, or may simply be drives that AI data centers do not prefer permanently, since they are not rated for 24/7 use. Fine for RAID home server use, apparently, though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend to dystopia a bit harder - if this type of CaaS happens, I expect you won’t get to lay a finger on any real local computing hardware. I think you’d have a computing equivalent of a Raspberry Pi which is DRM-locked to a specific service provider’s cloud computing services, and a remote desktop or streaming GPU service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, that’s exactly what I was looking for. More than *10K entries, by the look of it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, the most relevant information to avoiding your phone showing up in ICE’s rented databases is how they are getting the location data:

  The material does not say how Penlink obtains the smartphone location data in the first place. But surveillance companies and data brokers broadly gather it in two different ways. The first is from small bundles of code included in ordinary apps called software development kits, or SDKs. SDK owners then pay the app developers, who might make things like weather or prayer apps, for their users’ location data. The second is through real-time bidding, or RTB. This is where companies in the online advertising industry place near instantaneous bids to get their advert in front of a certain demographic. A side effect is that companies can obtain data about peoples’ individual devices, including their GPS coordinates. Spy firms have sourced this sort of RTB information from hugely popular smartphone apps.

  This includes a link to a prior 404 story that may have a list of apps, but it’s paywalled and none of the archive sites seem to have it indexed: www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-s…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [15 Tech CEOs standing on the spent bodies of millions of workers, the CEOs’ heads just reaching above the clouds of dystopian grime and smog to see the shining sun on the horizon]: I don’t know what you’re talking about, the future is beautiful!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Super obvious AI signals:

  • buttons make no sense and aren’t correlated to avoid real PS3 controller.
  • there’s nine status lights and literally status lights on the disk drive.
  • the text is spelled “PLAYSTA.TION”.

  Yes, I’m aware AI can do “pixel art.” No, this doesn’t invalidate the specific examples and logic from my prior posts. I’ve been discussing this is good faith, but you are not, you’re just reiterating and increasing the volume and insults. Have a nice day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeeup. If there is any organization that needs a shadow structure ready to fully replace and take over once the nightmare is over, it’s the CDC. People are dying already because of unchecked health misinformation, and time is always against us with exponential-spread disease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Buddy, I’m not defending AI, and you making some conspiratorial allegation about my motivation is just weirdly aggressive. You and other people don’t seem to understand what happens with typical generational lossy compression and resizing. Randomly resize and save any imagine to jpeg 12 times, and see if you don’t see similar artifact noise patterns. That’s a technical literacy thing and not your fault, but the overconfidence here is. The exact thing you’ve marked above is very typical artifacting that occurs for non-AI reasons.

  I also know enough to say that I can’t be 100% positive it was or wasn’t AI at some point in the chain. But Ican confidently say nobody has identified credible evidence it is AI compared to a multi-generational lossy resize by a lazy designer (and no, posting a screenshot with a vague circle and “that’s obviously AI” is not great evidence - these are not twelve fingers or mush pseudo text, this is pixel level inconsistency).

  The things you and others are pointing out here are very explainable without AI, and AI likely would not be reliable enough to create some of the details you see which survived the lossy compression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry…Again, what should I be taking from this? What is “ChatGPT font”? ChatGPT and its image tool are distillation models that do not have fonts. They produce images based on per-pixel relational distillation, they are guessing what pixels should be next to each other and do not use fonts. Current models do produce text that can be indistinguishable from fonts, but there is no single “ChatGPT font.” If there is a generic font appearing here, that doesn’t tell us anything new.

  For the PS1, I don’t understand what you are referring to. The blurriness and uneven lines happen from compression artifacting and/or resizing to a non-divisible fractional resolution.

  If you’re taking some other features as evidence of AI, let me know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of oil-related reasons his handlers have convinced him to do it. But I’d wager the reason Trump is doing it is to take focus off of the Epstein files. With the new evidence that Trump sent underage girls to Epstein, it seems very likely we’ll find out Trump was actively part of organized trafficking.

  Trump is not a smart person, but he knows what works. Whenever things aren’t going his way, he will escalate and distract, delay reckoning until everyone has moved on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry again, I know I responded below and not trying to just fight for now reason, but pointing out these different things you’re identifying that actually strongly suggest these aren’t AI, or aren’t indicators of AI or not either way.

  For example, Switch asymmetry. This is how Switch directional and gamepad buttons look. It should be asymmetrical, and AI probably wouldn’t get that right like it is in the graphic. You can even see the color-distorted remainder of the “-” and “+” symbols above them, blurred to hell from terrible resizing.

  Things like proportions and whether controllers are depicted are just choices either a human or an AI could make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, Adobe does have insidiously integrated AI tools. But again, nothing you point to here is strongly indicative of AI, and again, just consistent with sloppy & lazy resizing (which you could just as likely see pre-2020, before AI).

  There are some really hard to spot AI generated materials possible now, but the sloppy inconsistency here is - conversely - an indicator that they don’t care much what we do or don’t notice. Instead, these have a lot of details suggesting human-created versions based on the real systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, none of this is a strong indicator of AI. The “latent noise” you refer to is perfectly consistent with compression and resizing artifacting and noise. Other features are strongly suggestive it was originally pixel art. For example:

  -All of the controllers have consistent layouts, including the correct number and orientation of buttons, player indicators, etc (e.g., the Wii controllers). -Consistent diagonal step effects, even if blurred from poor resizing (see the PS4).
  -Consistent text for all system indicators that is legible without AI artifacting, even if blurred from poor resizing. -The fact that the 360 and PS3 (didn’t notice initially) are not even pixel art suggests they just grabbed random icons from the web, not ran them through AI generators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is AI-generated? It looks to me like real pixel art (except the 360) very lazily resized in a non-nearest-neighbor fractional scale and anti-aliased to mush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do feel like even if they skipped Clair Obscur because of recent controversies, the author should have addressed it. I think it’s certainly deserving of being in the list, so saying nothing kinda seems contrarian at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm Finally Works For You⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ultimately it took ProPublica to pull back the curtain on a computed market where an algorithm was telling landlords how much to charge tenants for a majority of the market. And even then, I don’t think it’s stopped.

  This is exactly my point. The ability for companies to gouge consumers is exacerbated by algorithms, sure. But they have power because the regulatory rules are either in their favor or not.

  Even exposing it as you note didn’t change it. Likewise individual consumers don’t have the ability to change it. It’s a red herring and false solution to say “AI can fix it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm Finally Works For You⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always up for a good AI dystopia article, but this is pretty poorly written, taking a very long time to say very little new or interesting. For this reason I wouldn’t be surprised if the author used AI assistance in writing it, which would certainly tell you something about the author’s objectivity. (It has a lot of earmarks of recent-model AI essay writing, like repeated use of the rule of threes, though I admit a human could have produced it. )

  The thesis appears to be that AI can be an equalizer to put individuals on equal footing to corporate data processing tasks. But conversely that it may not be because viability, quality and reliability depends on who controls the model and whether it hallucinates in critical or non-critical ways. Thanks for the clarity, article.

  None of this is new thought, but just another part of an inherently AI-normalizing line of thinking that AI is just another democratizing technological tool (but that could be used for evil - or good! - or evil!). The author addresses some of the AI flaws but ends almost where it began, with that flawed premise, which elides how unlike other tools, AI actually degrades our abilities to think and communicate once we start relying on it. The article doesn’t address that communication, meaning, thought, and reliability are degraded when either individual or corporate systems integrate AI.

  Instead, the author would like you to think individuals can level a playing field by using AI against corporate algorithms. Sure, a person denied a medical claim by a health insurer AI can now write a generic appeal, but that appeal can just a efficiently continue to be denied by better funded AI. It’s a meaningless comparison

  What truly matters and is unaffected by consumer AI use is power - political and corporate power. AI just floods the zone with more output, but the result of us all adopting AI will change nothing to the power imbalance in our system. The solution to low effort slop won’t be more low effort slop - we’d just be burying ourselves deeper in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Continuing to fulfill his purpose. Was pretty disappointing seeing CBS News pushing that sane-washing town hall with Erika Kirk with a temporary hard link on its navbar, but the Larry->David->Bari chain is complete and paying off there too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting you are disappointed in the art style - it makes more sense, though, if you haven’t played HOMM3. Because the map art style and layout feels very HOMM3, moreso than the other 3D modernization attempt in HOMM5 (which I hated). My guess is you would have really enjoyed HOMM3, if this one plays how it looks.

  Thanks for putting this on my radar, it really looks like a return to the HOMM gameplay I enjoyed.