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my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand

Now that is a palpable irony. So much disruption in this space so some investors could profit off of a tech they don’t even understand.

Nothin but the dead in me, baby

These people only care now because it’s actually affecting the bottom line.

Did they care when AAA pricing was lifted to $70 (base) as AAA quality took a nosedive? Did they care when “preordering” turned into “premium”? Did they care when microtransactions made some games into spend-to-win machines?

Hell, most of these clowns don’t even play games. Just more rich people putting on the hat they think they need to get away with a “hello, fellow gamers.”

Maybe the industry has a C-suite crisis.

I want one, but I don’t think they’re going to get the pricing near anywhere where it becomes a reality.

That said, I’m really happy that this product has at least started a conversation. I would 100% prefer a dumb flip phone than the advertising machine in my pocket. There is a suggestion of a market; we’ll see if the industry is too far up their own ass to respond.

Sadly I don’t think the revamped Commodore will have the clout to pull it off.

Of course the percentage of people who have ever used a chatbot is going to go up over time.

Yes, and crucially, it never goes down.

It’s like asking: “do you use a motor vehicle?” And then counting everyone who has ever been in a car, a truck, a bus, or potentially even a train as a yes. It plainly conflates active users with exploratory or incidental users.

The only reason to do such things is to inflate numbers because being honest about them makes it look bad.

The tail continues to wag the dog. It’s worked so far. Why stop now?

It gets better when you consider that the “ground” itself, and indeed all matter, is just mostly empty space anyway.

ⓧ Doubt

It’s also annoying linguistically, since Þ usually represents a voiceless interdental fricative, which never occurs as the th in the. English does have the voiceless one (cf. thin), just never in the.

It would be better to use the voiced version, which is a ð. But yes, neither will do anything to thwart AI training.

Let’s not ignore the nominative hemits, shemits, and theymits.

It’s partly because there realistically is no substantial left-wing voice remaining in the US. The right and corporations do their best to label centrist positions as far left positions, and the Overton Window continually shifts to the right as a result.

It’s also really, really popular to hate on California at the moment. The facts never matter.

Definitely sad that it’s NPR in this case, though.

For those not getting the reference:

Thought to have died of indigestion arising from eating melon, though his opponents alleged he died while being sodomized by a page.

Doesn’t seem far fetched to think the indigestion was an excuse. Though to be fair, I’ve had some rough melons in my day.

Wait wait, does this mean we can just get one of these magic private funds and give the US population healthcare?!

That’s a good point. I should have picked a weaker bird, but I know very little about birds.

If these “prominent GOP hawks” haven’t seen the writing on the wall by now, I don’t even know what to say. Sounds more like pigeon than hawk, with no offense intended to pigeons.

The administration is negotiating a federal preemption of state AI laws

It’s soooo much fun watching States’ Rights be either the most important American tenet ever or a stumbling block to progress, depending on the issue.

It used to be limited to Tuesdays, but now tacos are an every day thing.

Really though, the amount of flip flopping is staggering. It’s because the President of the United States has literally no clue what he’s doing.

It took Arch ~19 years just to get archinstall.

Something tells me there won’t be a script.

You know how you can put something on eBay for any amount of money? Of course it won’t sell if it’s priced too high, but the price can be set however.

Then people with random items go on eBay. They see their item priced at some exorbitant level and make the jump: “this thing is worth so much money!” Even though it isn’t worth that. It never sold for that. Someone just picked a number.

Starting to feel like this is how valuations work.

This is my only qualm with this. AI slop is not made by “synthetic performers”. We shouldn’t be elevating it with that wording, which sounds like it’s trying to give agency to the slop.