Hadn’t even noticed the community yet when I said “what an absolute chonker.”

Silly me why didn’t I think of that lol

Ah right I knew that rule but forgot to apply it here.

AI costs can compound

As anyone who knows the value of compound interest can tell you, this is NOT a flex lmfao

That’s an… interesting correlation they’re making, more code = more money. I know it’s not you personally making that comparison, but man is it strange. That’s a very business school way of thinking.

What good is “more code” from the LLMs, if I have to scrutinize it for bugs and vulnerabilities? More code only means more surface area, more points of failure. And of the AI I’ve tried, every single one writes far far far too much code. And all that time in code review, QA, user acceptance testing, that absolutely does not make the company more money - it costs them more money, in paying for labor. And it doesn’t get the product to the end user faster anyway.

I’m just ranting and this a minor point, but speed is also not the only metric I would care about. I’d also care about making sure the user doesn’t experience many bugs - preferably no bugs at all. The classic engineer’s triangle still holds: “Fast, Cheap, and Good: choose 2.” And AI seems to pick “Fast” twice. XD

Yeah I was about to say. I’m an American software engineer at 10 years in the industry. That number is roughly my yearly salary, and they’re talking monthly, so that’s like 12 of me. From what I’ve noticed in online job searches, European positions of roughly equal experience and skill levels get paid somewhere between 30-50% less. Is that because of the stronger welfare systems? Or maybe the differences in cost of living, which could vary based on country and region?

Adam Connover and Dan Olson discuss one of Nvidia’s touted AI-in-games products which was similar to what you were saying. You talk on mic to the NPC, the NPC feeds your speech to its LLM, it replies back to give you a quest or something.

And then they come to the obvious conclusion: players would abuse the shit out of it.

That whole podcast is worth watching, they discuss a lot more than just games and AI.

Choosing a globally federated network of social media wasn’t the play then was it chief?

Divine Comedy

Get yourself a quality translation, mine was kinda ass, don’t remember whose it was though.

As others have alluded, regardless of the content of the HP books or movies or games, JKR earns royalties and profits from HP as a brand. Keeping the brand in the collective zeitgeist - even if you didn’t buy anything - brings Rowling money through word-of-mouth marketing, money she uses for hateful ends. I know some folks in my life, I bet you know some in yours, who will spend money based on FOMO, or nostalgia bait, or rage bait, without knowing who or what their money goes to.

This same conversation happened when Hogwarts Legacy was released, folks who said “its just a video game, calm down,” were missing the point of the boycotts and protests. Funding HP funds JKR, which funds lobbyists to strip human rights away from human beings. The cause and effect here is well documented.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/jk-rowling-donates-big-money-to-anti-trans-group/

https://www.them.us/story/jk-rowling-fund-anti-trans-lawsuits

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/jk-rowling-harry-potter-anti-trans

Sure you could avoid the openly hateful creators, but how would you ever know who is secretly hateful?

You don’t know what you don’t know. Nobody should be blamed for liking HP while they were unaware of Rowling’s bigotry and how she funds hate groups.

But once you do know, you now have agency and responsibility. Absentminded consumption of content is not consequence-free, the information landscape you inhabit changes you. Do you ever catch yourself using a word more often after hearing your favorite YouTuber use it? That’s just one small perceptible example of what OP means.

This is why it’s important for articles like this to inform and remind people to be critical viewers, to be skeptical about what they watch, who they follow.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1AXQ36kG258

If you’re looking for an adult novel about English magicians (and you looove lore dumping), read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell you’re gonna thank me on that one.

I don’t know, I don’t detect bandwagoning from their statements. They sound like real, genuine hatred.

Speaking to PC Gamer in comments the pair have since posted in full to social media Oshry and Dusk developer David Szymanski argued that DLSS 5 isn’t just an optional trick folks can ignore, but something that should actively resisted.

“Please tell me what generative AI has anything to do with Deep Learning Super Sampling - which is what DLSS actually stands for in case anyone forgot,” Oshry said. “They’re hiding this Gen AI bullshit behind the DLSS moniker because they think we’re stupid…They know if they called it something like ‘Nvidia Generative Upscaling’ the public backlash would be immediate and intense.”

In the developer’s eyes, DLSS 5 amounts to “fundamentally changing the way video games look based on artificial intelligence that’s been trained on Instagram models and Epstein memes”, leading him to question the point of making game art in the first place.

If I saw these comments on a Lemmy post, it would fit right at home.

It was very uncanny. If the article hadn’t told me when it was created, I would have assumed it was Sora.

I second CITY the Animation. Pokemon Horizons first season was a strong start for an Ash-less reboot of the anime.

Without spoilers, there are 5 major endings to the game, A-E, and you haven’t really “beat” the game until you have seen them all. There are 21 additional minor endings, F-Z, which are more or less optional.

Take advantage of the game’s online connectivity. Similar to Dark Souls, other players that died will leave messages and a bit of their loot in your world.

I hope you enjoy the game! Nier:Automata is one of my favorite video games of all time.

Oh piss off with this “its just administrative tasks bro, it’s just meant to replace secretaries bro.” Nobody believes that garbage.

You think “accounting and admin stuff is not dangerous?” That those tasks don’t “actually matter?” Please tell the IRS that excuse when it files your taxes wrong, and let me know what they say.

WireGuard

lmao

I don’t know if borders on tinfoil to call Lemmy.ml a honeypot. I think if you’re China, and your goal was to destabilize American/Western politics by poisoning the well of discussion amongst it’s citizens, it seems natural to just… let Lemmy.ml continue doing its thing. A honeypot is for baiting and trapping a target, it’s what you would do to catch CSAM predators. You eventually capture and prosecute them.

But for long-term destabilization of a generation of people, you just stand up a bunch of bad faith actors and let them post their heart out for a couple years. Eventually, your posse will have brainwashed actual citizens into repeating your (and coming with their own) propaganda.

So Dess and his ilk may not even have to be Chinese intelligence agents, they could just be extremely railroaded Westerners. But I don’t care enough about them to get even close to doxxing territory.

Edit: And for the record, Russia pulled the same stunt back in 2014-15 with the Alt Right. Both nations could very well be standing up bad faith actors pretending to be Fascists and Marxists at the same time, and that would be an efficient strategy.