I get the principled reason to do this. But most people aren’t set up to pirate. And even if they were, it’s inconvenient to have games not attached to their steam library. I don’t think anyone should deprive themselves of this masterpiece.

If the prospect of pirating is holding you back, just buy it. The game is too good to miss out

From the post:

Whether it’s a local or a cloud-based model, if you want to use AI, we think you should have the freedom to use (or not use) the tools that best suit your needs

If your goal is to help people transition to that future, would you engage with the people who are already there?

Woah… So do they also use the name moose? Or did I watch a translated version of the Holy Grail?

For that use case, go syncthing. Nextcloud would be overkill. I run both, I use syncthing for my personal files and Nextcloud when they should be shared with others.

Certain events like marathon swimming and triathlon can’t be done in a pool.

It’s a fantastic idea in principle. We’ve just neglected the most important ingredient: oversight

Ah, yeah I guess you can’t browse your photos using a file system view. I just meant that it won’t automatically reorganize your pictures on the file system.

However you can create albums via an API call. You could probably write a script that adds each folder to an album or something.

It definitely can, it’s called an “external library”. I just added my entire photo collection and use Immich as a frontend to view them all

Yeah that’s fair… Bad example :p

It’s like a vicious cycle:

1. People are tech illiterate
2. Tech companies design things for the lowest common denominator.
3. People don’t need to learn anything new and become even more tech illiterate

AI is going to make it so much worse. You’ll soon be in the top 5% if you have a keyboard app installed on your phone.

Yeah exactly. I’m calling BS that the thrill of the chase is the main motivator. Maybe it is for a handful, but for the most part people just like to be dickheads.

As soon as you decide to decentralize your platform it ceases to belong to any particular group.

Then why not prove you can do it and then shut the bot down?

I dunno, I suspect most human alt texts to be vague and non descriptive. I’m sure a human trying their hardest could out write an AI alt text… But I’d be pretty shocked if AI’s weren’t already better than the average alt text.

Iirc it peaked at around 30% market share. I think IE was around 60% at the time. So never dominant, but definitely very very widespread.

I’m curious, are these hallucinations very prevalent? I’m outside under US so haven’t seen the feature yet. But I have noticed that practically every article references the same glue incident.

So I’m not sure if the hallucinations are happening all the time, or everyone is just jumping on a handful of mistakes the AI made. If the latter, the situation reminds me of how every single accident involving a Tesla was reported on back in the day.

An old manager of mine’s backup solution was a cronjob that appended .old to every file then made a copy of the most recent one. So he had: file, file.old, file.old.old, file.old.old.old, …

I can think of a couple examples, like leaving the boot loader unlocked on their pixel phones. You might be right though.

Google’s too smart for that. They know there’s a big backlash against AI in the tech savvy crowd and that it’s bleeding users to competitors. So they offer this escape valve that they know the techies will easily find and use, but which 99% of the population will never even look for. This way they can still push AI on almost everyone while at the same time retain as many disgruntled techies as they can.