yeah, most slop content already existed before chatgpt and was written by humans.

Sure, I’d say most topics already had slop content. However, LLMs can generate entire websites of slop content in minutes if not less. It’s pointlessly inefficient to employ people to generate slop by hand. Entire news sites are now just LLM generated slop because it was determined to be cheaper than human generated slop. Most slop content is now, and will going forward be, LLM generated.

Can you share a source for the hood height regulations? Never heard anything like that before.

All smart devices should fail into a safe and functional mode when the smart features inevitably stop working.

I’m horrified that you could possibly advocate for allowing the consumer to have any real control of their own devices. Have you considered the security implications of not requiring devices to be 100% dependent on the manufacturer’s server? Users might be able to use the device without first installing the company’s app! The user might be able to use the device without the company knowing about it and selling that data for additional profit or using it to train it’s AI.

This is particularly, transparently obvious for news sites. News is worthless if it is old. Yet still AI literally reads the work of journalists and then cuts them out of the equation, denying the journalists the revenue that pays them to produce the news. Its like the scorpion and the frog.

I don’t disagree…

Given that the power to support the game is literally the only power we have, there is no moral issue - I agree. I don’t, however, understand what’s wrong with wishing for a system that gives consumers and workers more options.

will be rewarded by being laid off. Not buying it only punishes the shithead management

While I agree with the sentiment, that’s a gross oversimplification.

• While I’m sure the studio will likely downsize and lay off staff, many will stay on.
• Passion and care inevitably went into the game, to some degree. I would be surprised if devs and artists were indifferent to its success, whether they kept their jobs or not.
• It’s hugely different to be laid off after a hit game vs a failure of a game, when it comes to finding new work.
• The art itself, if it was of any quality, is wasted.

Again, I’m not advocating people buy it. I just wish we had the power to fight some other way. I won’t be buying it, but I wouldn’t have bought it anyway. It will also very likely sell like hotcakes, regardless of our posturing.

Not that I personally give a fuck about GTA generally, but it does make me upset that one of the few methods we have to “police” these companies as consumers is to not buy the game. To take a massive project that consumed however many years of work by however many developers and artists just and make it a commercial failure just to… stick it to their bosses? It’s like refusing to buy a musician’s CD because you don’t like the record company they made a deal with. Nobody gets to enjoy the music and the musician makes less money. This system sucks.

So would reverse engineering and building a modifed version of an app, so that you prevent it from doing things you don’t want it to do, be legal?

The EU laws may not be worded so horrendously. I’m barely familiar with EU law beyond a little of the GDPR.

It was actually forced onto the US by a clever US politician, Bruce Lehman - the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks under Bill Clinton, who pushed it into an international treaty, the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Europe also approved the treaty and I assume the European counterparts still stand.

The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). By Decision 2000/278/EC of 16 March 2000, the Council of the European Union approved the treaty on behalf of the European Community. European Union Directives which largely cover the subject matter of the treaty are: Directive 91/250/EC, creating copyright protection for software; Directive 96/9/EC on copyright protection for databases; and Directive 2001/29/EC, prohibiting devices for circumventing “technical protection measures”, such as digital rights management (also known as DRM).

Maybe it isn’t so thoroughly abused over there though. Poor Europeans lack the highly sought after freedom (to lose all of your rights to mega-corporations) we enjoy in the USA.

…and civil action if you try to reverse engineer or circumvent the app in any way… because the app’s code is copyrighted. If you do it for someone else or make a post explaining how you did it things can get really spicy. Lord help you if you profit commercially from it.

Yay DMCA, in particular Section 1201!

That’s quite an achievement. We’re so awesome!

After all this time humanity finally created a world with high life expectancy…

…and it only cost the sustainability of the lower class and the entire global south.

Did that with cookies once. A whole series of mistakes during the process and fixes to recover from those mistakes resulted in a batch of perfectly undercooked and absolutely delicious cookies that I’ve never forgotten… and also never managed to replicate.

Looking for some easy good PR after meeting with Kushner.

I don’t think they are talking about the average person. I think they are talking about those in leadership roles.

I should have been more clear. I know they are being manipulated. I don’t blame them for everything.

I’m trying to acknowledge a justified and legitimate frustration, not discourage everyone from focusing on the real source of the problem.

While I agree that those hoarding wealth and power are the primary target, a lot of boomers keep voting for fucking fascists and refuse to acknowledge the leopards eating their faces.

I think climate change is a more relevant term. Yes, as a whole, the earth is warming up. However, this is not the only effect and it is not felt everywhere equally. Some places may actually not get warmer or even get cooler (for now). Changing air and water currents can change things in many different ways. Either way, weather patterns and climates are being changed.

What sucks is that some people act in bad faith. “Well this winter in this one city was technically cooler this year so Global Warming is a hoax!”