Also, “Five of the top 100 songs on U.S. iTunes as of Friday afternoon are by IngaRose” certainly sounds like chart manipulation.

That could be another reason for manual removal. But mission accomplished for the AI slopper either way, since they got their free advertising.

I get the metaphor but it’s not a great one for AI in mathematics especially. A statistical word generator is not going to perform reliable math and woe to anyone who acts otherwise.

I would call it an autistic sycophantic savant with brain damage. It’s able to perform apparent miraculous feats of memory and creativity but then be unable to tell reality from fiction, to tell if even the simplest response is valid, and likely will lie about it to make itself seem more competent to please you.

If you have a use for an assistant like that, then great. But a calculator - simple and cheap and reliable - it definitely is not.

Not sure why you’re getting downvotes. This is a very relatable experience.

I feel like the EFF’s messaging is just not going to get through to anyone still on Twitter.

The problem is that the fundamental catch-22 of social networks is that the content and the users reinforce each other. Self-hating/regretting Twitter/X users exist, but they are there because there are network effects, including organizations who still also use it, they are not willing to give up. Similar organizations are there because the users are still there. And yes, I do think they still see the people they want because of follows/subscriptions, even if alt-right fascism is also being thrown into their feed by the algorithm.

It sucks so many people haven’t left yet, but that’s why every choice to leave is worth celebrating, because it breaks down the long-term network effects every time, even at the cost of short-term value to the users or orgs.

Indeed. And, if only they originally subpoenaed her as an individual and not as the AG, they could just bring her in anyway because Congress has and exercised that power because of the information she had, not because of her job title.

Wait! Can this be right?! She was subpoenaed as an individual! Oh, that’s a relief, now Congress can just move ahead with her testimony without even waiting for Blanche or having to re-subpoena her (phwew, so much time would have been wasted)! I bet everyone involved is relieved.

Certainly seems to be a grift:

https://kotaku.com/resident-evil-jovovich-mempalace-ai-github-2000685786

Played it today, it’s excellent!

If you’re evil nowadays, you can just buy a Mar-a-lago face to short circuit the whole process.

Heroes of Science and Fiction

Oh, this looks great!

I’m more excited for this than I have been for a game in years. It looks like HOMM3 with modernized QOL updates and graphics. That’s really all I need.

You’re technically correct. The best kind of correct. Thanks.

Memory that is embedded in GPUs.

So…to be clear, this was formed just prior to the release of the app, and almost certainly the app was being developed by this person/group before then.

Sure would be good to know what public funds were used to pay for this app (I assume too much), and whether there was a bidding process (I assume there wasn’t), and whether this person is someone the decision-maker already had some relationship/connection to (I assume that was the case).

Because regardless of the public value of a tracking & propaganda window favoring one party (none), it would be completely shocking, just totally unheard of, if this was a corrupt overpayment and misuse of public funds to pay for substandard work to personal and political connections.

I mean, we didn’t just see this happen with Noem or anything.

You’re sitting on a gold mine - first DDR6/HBM, then DDR5, then DDR4 got expensive. If trends continue, somewhere around 2028 you’ll be able to sell that desoldered 128KB of SNES RAM for a fortune.

I don’t know a single thing she’s done, and have been cynical about “content creators” as opportunists lowering the standard of entertainment/art.

But just now I decided, why hate? Seeing all our entertainment being produced by fewer and fewer billionaires every year… All the best luck and support to anyone who isn’t helping prop up that system.

Upvoted for a different perspective, but I suspect it ends in the same place.

OpenAI is kept solvent by investor capital, and capital is kept flowing by the perception of OpenAI being the market leader. Seedance being a better model, enough to cause OpenAI to exit the market, still ruptures the perception of value. In a market with no clear profitability path, that’s ground falling away.

It also can’t be simply commoditized because generations (I’m sure even Seedance) are expensive and still not good enough for production use, even if 50% of their consumer base might boycott if a major studio even did use it in production. Commoditization can’t occur when there’s still no economically self-sustaining, market-acceptable “good enough” product. Without that, even if the leader changes, it’s a race between lemmings (sorry) off the cliff.

I don’t know if the headline on the site changed or OP changed it, but to be clear, Delta is not targeting only congressmembers who are voting against the current funding proposal (i.e., this is not a “punish Democrats” targeted action, despite the headline saying those who won’t get special treatment are “members refusing to fund TSA”).

This is the current headline which is clearer: “Delta axes special treatment for Congress members over ‘inexcusable’ refusal to fund TSA”.

OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024, without providing a reason for the decision.

That is the strongest indication this is the beginning of the end for the AI bubble. Sora burned a ton of processing power, with no clear value proposition, just to keep the hype cycle going a little longer. Shutting down without explanation leaves the most likely one: they are out of helium to pump into the balloon. And if that balloon isn’t inflating, it’s deflating.

To me, the problem is that this is effectively the Switch Pro, and they called it the Switch 2. The marketing psychology makes a big difference. Switch Pro would imply it coexists alongside Switch and is for those who want to pay for more performance. Switch 2 implies that it’s something worthy of abandoning the prior generation. I think the former is fine (even desirable) and the later is just a bad value proposition.

Also interesting there were leaks about a Switch Pro a year or so prior to the Switch 2 reveal. My guess is the Switch 2 IS the Switch Pro.

Yeah, this is the “tock” part of the “tick-tock” hardware cycle. People bought the Switch because it was refreshing and a new way to play. Now Nintendo is offering to let us pay again and more for nearly the same. It’s a little cynical but true.

They could have called it the SwitchU, but honestly that’s a disservice to the WiiU - its second screen had more innovation.