No I think twitch hosts all kinds of livestreams and hides behind the ides that they are all about gaming. Twitch maintains more style than other social media, but its just monopolizing one kind of social media post. Live streams.

Um. Why? I think Walmart and college football are both highly profitable and abusive enough that federal regulation should be hitting their business practices. But Twitter and twitch? Pre-elon, I think they both had an effective monopoly on their markets but weren’t visibly abusing that monopoly. They are, but its just not that damaging.

I wonder if it would be advantageous to make a community about live streaming now that Twitch has finally grown out of being a gaming platform. Justin TV was so much more diverse, live streams are so much more than just Twitch and the meta there. Edit: how some people feel about twitter is how I feel about Twitch. A company is making a genre of media uninteresting to me.

Who cares

OH. Thanks! Jeez my reading comprehension really did screw up on that.

Yes the comment literally says “polished from day 1” 🤔 and mine explains that the game has been being polished regularly for months.

Which is great, it’s cool to see a GOTY level game come out and its even better to know what a GOTY game looks like - not perfect on launch, but immediately receiving the necessary fixes.

Don’t say that! The devs have been fastidiously fixing bugs. Thousands. And there have been a few Quality of Life changes / additions.

As a former dedicated Insurgency player… Yeah, there were very few people worth keeping at NWI. They made an awesome concept for a game and then had to spend years upon years fixing incomprehensible, Garry’s Mod level bugs.

And let me tell you, Insurgency at the end of its life was becoming a humungously popular game, and they announced and released its sequel, Insurgency: Sandstorm far too early.

So NWI had made a lot of very silly mistakes, and yet there is a wonderful game with a wonderful community still there.

Other comments are saying this is an ad, which… Is true, but this was informative too and now I know about a product I’ve never even considered before.

The technology works the same way at everything. It averages and smooths out the rough edges into a homogrnous lump.

I’m so conditioned by this I just dont buy games at launch anymore 😮‍💨 fucking lame

Hey donating blood makes you great in my book. If some silly halloween marketing can be exploited to get some more people to donate blood, cool.

Oh 😢 yea I think Talos 1 would probably have this effect. I don’t fully understand how your motion sickness is triggered but I kinda get the vibe.

Thanks for this reply. You’ve shown this issue has depth that I’ve ignored because I like very few of the advocates for the AI we’ve got.

So one thing that trips me up is I thought copyright is about use. As a consumer rather than a creator this makes complete sense - you can read it, if you own it or borrowed it, and do not distribute it in any way. But there are also gentleman’s agreements built in to how we use books and digital prints.

Unintuitively, copying is also very important. Artists copy to learn, for example. Musicians have the right to cover anyone’s music. Engineers will deconstruct. and reverse engineer another’s solution. And businesses cheat off of one another all the time. Even when it has been proven to be wrong, the incentive is high.

So is taking the text of the book, no matter how you got it, and using it as part of a new technology okay?

Clearly the distribution isn’t wrong. You’re not distributing the book, you’ve made a derivative.

The ownership isn’t there, I mean the works were pirated. We’ve been taught that simply having something that was gotten through online copying is not only against the ‘rightholder’ but “piracy” and “stealing”. I have a really simplistic view of this - I just want creators paid for their work, and have autonomy (rights) over what is done with their work. This is rarely the case, we live in a world with publishers.

So it’s that first action. Is that use of the text in another work legal?

My basic understanding of fair use is that fair use is when you add to a work. You critique or reuse that work. Your work is about the other work, but also something new that stands on its own like an essay or a collage, rather than a collection.

I am so confused. Text based AI is run by capitalists. And we only have it FOSS because META can afford to lose money in order to remove OpenAI from the competition. Image based AI is almost certainly wrong, it copied and plugged in all of this other work and now tons of people are suing, Getty images is leveraging their rights management to make an AI that follows the rules we are living with. My gut reaction is a lot of people deserve royalties.

But in the other hand it sounds like AI did not work until they gave it the entire internet worth of data to train on. Training on smaller, legal sets was a failure? Or maybe it was because they took the tech approach of training the AI on every google image of dogs, or cats, etc. Without any real variation. Because they’re engineers, not artists. And not even good engineers, if their best work is just scraping other people’s work and giving it to this weird computer program.

This is all just stealing, right? But stealing is a lot more legal than I thought, especially when it comes to digitally published works of art, or physically published art that’s popular enough to be shared online.

Damn that’s crazy. I thought TF2 was one of those games you can’t play anymore, because they had people abusing bugs to crash servers or whatever. But it got fixed and you can genuinely play it like… 7+ years after release? Titanfall 2 also used to use the “we need you to buy mtx to keep the servers open” strategy, lmao. I also think the artists behind TF and TF2 are leading passion for the project and a few have just made more art in the same vein in their free time, as well as more collabs and promotions after release. But again this is years ago.

Amazing how every generation of technology has an asshole billionaire or two stealing shit to be the first in line to try and monopolize society’s progress.

What the AI is doing is reverse engineering the authors magic formula for creating new works

Great but the humans involved knowingly let it scrub pirated works.

fourth industrial revolution" as some have claimed

The people claiming this are often the shareholders themselves.

prohibitively expensive to train for smaller applications.

There is so much work out there for free, with no copyright. The biggest cost in training is most likely the hardware, and I see no added value in having AI train on Stephen King ☠️

Copyright is already just a band-aid for what is really an issue of resource allocation.

God damn right but I want our government to put a band aid on capitalists just stealing whatever the fuck they want “move fast and break things”. It’s yet another test for my confidence in the state. Every issue, a litmus test for how our society deals with the problems that arise.

Writers are rich because they’ve made artwork and sold it. I personally hold that to a higher value than CEOs.

I haven’t heard this argument before, and it’s VERY hardline, but it works and the analogy is good too.

I’d be sold if it wasn’t literally 2.5x the price of any other phone I’m looking at. Sheesh. Yeah and I’d love to change out parts and tinker with the possibilities, too. What’s that gonna cost me?

Edit - also other major brands might have removable batteries by the time I’m buying again.

Interesting. Thank you!

This is victim blaming. These devs already made those games and released them before Unity made these decisions.

I just want fucking humans paid for their work, why do you tech nerds have to innovate new ways to lick the boots of capital every few years? Let the capitalists make aeguments why AI should own all of our work, for free, rights be damned, and then profit off of it, and sell that back to us as a product. Let them do that. They don’t need your help.

When we’re talking about instructional content and source code, yeah. Visual art online follows a different paradigm.

Artists who look at art are processing it in a relatable, human way. An AI doesnt look at art. A human tells the AI to find art and plug it in, knowing that work is copyrighted and not available for someone else’s commercial project to develop an AI.

I imagine creators who… released their work for free, and/or open source?

Lmfao

Lineage OS, graphene, caylx, yk the stuff you jailbreak a phone for. People are saying this can run Ubuntu touch, and yet other people are saying this will be troublesome for the Android ROM community to develop for. Bear with me, I’m new to the concept and certainly might be wrong about something.

I am so new to this so bear with me. There is Lineage OS for fairphone 4 - does this mean there won’t be FOSS ROMs available for the fairphone 5?

I dont really understand this gripe. Can you explain why its a closed CPU that I cant do much with?

Please. Yes.

I so resent this market. I’m just jailbreaking the next one or whatever.

Yeah seriously. Have the AI figure out whether I have 37 or 36 lines ans their average length.

Our first public comment about Starfield being a polished game came from journalist Tyler McVicker, who’s currently under an embargo for the title.

Wow they name dropped a youtuber. Nevermind, went to my favorite source for gaming, Dexerto, aaaand it’s the same shit.

Im using a motorola that’s ~3 years old and not top of the line. It has a headphone jack, and a stylus.

My opinion on the iPhone is that it is the industry leading phone. But it’s taking the industry in directions I just have no interest in.

I used to love the Iphone back when app devs followed strict design standards. And offered a good product for a few bucks up-front. So now I use launchers with icon-replacements, and I try to pay for FOSS apps that I use.

So nowadays, I’m looking forward to more counter-culture designs. I’m definitely looking for a phone with a physicaly keyboard or a way to attach a small bluetooth keyboard physically to the phone. But I digress.