Sure I’ll try to find one.

The new style is actually worse. They cut / paste other people’s work (usually entire scenes from a movie) and then have an AI talking in the background. Normally the AI is so quiet you can barely hear it, but I guess it’s enough to bypass any censorship.

Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.

not just chatgpt.

Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.

All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.

The only option is to log off and find an alternative.

As a QA, I raised the very real risk that should tensions with America escalate, they could effectively cut us off and our business would be kaputt.

What happens if AWS goes down? We use Google. What happens if both go down (or cut us off)? We’re fucked.

The answer to me raising the risk was a, “Haha, yeah, true, we’d be in big trouble…” but there’s no actual appetite to do anything about it. We’re so tied up in AWS that I can’t imagine there ever will be.

I feel I’m too old for this meme now. The Christmas period passed me by like a breeze, and then January vanished behind it.

In roughly two or so days I’ll be saying, “I can’t believe it’s 2027 already” whilst 2030 waits around the corner to whack me over the head with a baseball bat.

thing you just can’t buy elsewhere anymore

Yes and no. For example I had to buy double-sided tape and went into four different stores in different areas of my city and only found it in the fourth store after researching.

I checked on Amazon after the fact, and could have had it delivered to my door same-day lol.

I don’t believe there’s anything you can only buy on Amazon… but it IS so bloody convenient.

I am looking at using Eufy, no subscription. Unsure of potential of it joining the darkside.

Edit: China-owned, so it’s a pick-your-poison kind of deal.

Unironically a sack of potatoes should be an S tier ranked grocery. They are extremely versatile, can be as healthy or as unhealthy as you want them to be, make some incredible delicious things, and are also one of the cheapest things by weight.

There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, ‘this is impossible’ but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.

Bare in mind as well that ‘AI’ has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of ‘AI’ simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.

I don’t know. It’s not really up to me to figure that out, either. Companies should self-report on their AI usage.

That’s fine, but they did use AI in development, so whether or not they removed the assets they should not be included in this award category.

I don’t think there is any problem with using AI art as a placeholder until the real art is ready.

I also don’t think there is any problem with being disqualified from a competition that says “No AI Art” for doing so.

Or like they submitted a game to an award that said no AI in development, said they didn’t use AI in development, when in reality they did.

The answer to this post, and almost everything, is to tax the wealthy.

AI is not ruining anything. The people in control of it are.

Come on dude. Just keep doubling down until you can generalise. What a weak approach.

It makes more sense that a god is a creator and not a omniscient controller, if we could grow life in a petri dish and set the scientific boundaries for that life - we would also sit back and watch what happens, for good and for bad.