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It really is a website that can be linked to!

So is The Onion.

So the other thing with AI is the companies are not just making money on the output like an artist would. They are making bank on investors and stock market speculation that exists only because they scooped up massive amounts of copyrighted materials to create their output. It really isn’t comparable to a single artist or even a collection of artists.

Yes, whether copyright should exist is a different discussion than how AI is violating it in a very different way than snippets being reused in different contexts as part of a new creative work.

Intentionally using a single line is very different than scooping up all the data and hitting a randomizer until it stumbles into some combination that happens to look usable. Kind of like how a single business jacking up prices is different than a monopoly jacking up all the prices.

I didn’t say anything about quality.

What do you think they are if not that?

They don’t have emotions, they don’t have individual motivations, and don’t have intent.

You were trained and learned and are able to create new things.

AI poorly mimics thngs it has seen before.

It is because a human artist is usually inspired and uses knowledge to create new art and AI is just a mediocre mimic. A human artist doesn’t accidentally put six fingers on people on a regular basis. If they put fewer fingers it is intentional.

Good if AI fails because it can’t abuse copyright. Fuck AI.

*except the stuff used for science that isn’t trained on copyrighted scraped data, that use is fine

Along with that, of course, the global fast-food giant will look to improve customer experience by introducing AI to allow drive-through, kiosk, and app tech serve visitor more effectively.

Oh cool, I can get a side of nazi apologism with my sandwich!

Which Honda had the touchstrip instead of a knob?

I don’t doubt one might exist, just haven’t run into one yet.

Yup, that was my experience with the in laws Ascent.

Honda as well.

Subaru went all in on the touch screen and it suuuuucked.

We need to talk about Kevin.

Let’s elect him president so they can’t hold him accountable and he can pardon himself!

They are grat for things that benwfit from havibg flexible touch anywhere interaction like maps.

They suck for anything you want to touch without looking away from the road, like temp controls.

Honda still including buttons and knobs for climate controls was a huge factor for my last purchase. A few brands were instantly rejected because they had climate controls in the touch screen and I had already hated that experience from rentals and my in law’s cars.

If a game is going to have mtx, they shouldn’t be charging for it during a prerelease. They have multiple ethical ways to handle it that would garner better feedback.

1. Leave it out entirely and focus on the gameplay. That is what should be selling the game anyway.

2. Have the mtx but without a way to pay real money. Give the players the option to ‘purchase’ in game currency and give them a running total.

The latter would be reset at release, but would gather feedback on what people want to spend and if the promo process is well implemented.

Both would run counter to the actual purpose of the vast majority of mtx which is fleecing whales and this is EA.

The most ethical implementation of mtx that I know of is actually for a paid game, Helldivers 2. The in game promo stuff is minimal and does not negatively impact the menus or interacting with the ship. The option to buy stuff doesn’t use dark patterns, but it is easily available. When they did set prices too high for a collaboration thing they apologized due to feedback and gave the other half of the stuff that would have been for sale to every single player. It is basically the exact opposite of Call of Duty’s mtx.

“Stop trying to make fetch AI happen. It’s not going to happen.”

AI is worse that adding no value, it is an actual detriment.

I don’t think interacting with your reality is very productive.

So you refuse to accept that people mean what they say and feel the need to defend a for profit company by twisting any complaints into some kind of faked outrage conspiracy.

Have fun with that.