ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 3 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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] 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 2 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. 2 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.
- Comment on Late stage capitalism 2 weeks ago:
This is a really effective rhetorical summary of this moment.
The main point is that we seem to have agreed to enforce the status quo on ourselves. I agree, butI don’t feel like people have accepted this state of affairs. I think they are realizing the bamboozle at different times and rates, and once disillusioned, they just add to the number ready for change. It’s resignation, yes, but even hollow husks of once-living things create the conditions for a wildfire.
So, if there was a leader that “got it” and communicated this vertiginous moment as well as this essay, we all might find we’re closer to a tipping point of change than we think.
- Comment on id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs 3 weeks ago:
What? Do you have a link? That’s a gut punch if so…
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 3 weeks ago:
CD-R and CD-RW discs use different methods of data encoding, and were never advertised as having similar longevity.
I mean…sorry, but this is wrong. Mitsui CDRs for example are still being sold on secondary sites advertising 100+ (and sometimes 300+) year longevity. Similar to bitrot, internet rot makes it hard to find advertisements from the 90s, but I am comfortable that was true then too and not limited to “gold” high quality discs like Mitsui.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 3 weeks ago:
Remember that CDs, CDRs, and so on we’re originally pitched as surviving 100 years. Turns out they last a highly naturally amount of time but potentially as little as 2-3 years before they degrade, depending on the construction.
So I’ll just say, this is clearly a theoretical value.
- Comment on Hands-On With The Anbernic RG DS; The DSi Reimagined (my review) 4 weeks ago:
Wow, thanks!
- Comment on Hands-On With The Anbernic RG DS; The DSi Reimagined (my review) 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a similar recent DS-emulation system review and they were playing Rhythm Heaven, and what really looked like it would bother me is the emulation input latency (it appeared roughly 10-20ms). Have you played Rhythm Heaven or other latency-sensitive games and do you notice any delay?
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, sure, but it’s not this principle at play right now. I bought 64GB of DDR4 RAM 6 months ago on a whim for $87, and now it’s $300-450. That isn’t just because it’s not “cutting edge,” that’s extreme demand compared to supply.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 4 weeks ago:
DDR5 was the first to be hit with 200-400% price increases, but DDR4 is also seeing similar price hikes as demand cascades to what’s available.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but did you hear? Spez is a billionaire now! The last step of the business model! Great job everyone!
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 4 weeks ago:
Since we’ve all enjoyed SaaS allowing us to pay monthly fees until death for everything from our word processor to our sleep tracker, get ready for Compute as a Service to take over everything else once none of us can afford home computing.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 4 weeks ago:
This is the internet, you can’t swear here.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
Ok, that is much closer to half than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
That is so technically accurate, I love it.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.
I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 5 weeks ago:
Did Larry Ellison get controlling stake in US Tiktok? I thought he was trying, but did I miss that happening?