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By demanding the copyright our bosses love, we’re seeking the right to be angry about AI, even as the AI companies and our bosses cut deals to train chatbots with our work, which they will use to attack our livelihoods.
I had a report for AI slop today. 1m LOC in 3 months. How do you even modify and distribute that?
That makes some sense but does “AI slop” here refer to code with this type of problem or all code made with AI assistance?
A game being announced for years in the future and all they have to show is a cinematic screams vaporware to me
It’s understandable to not want to disclose AI use if you’re facing harassment over it, but pushing a marketing narrative about the skill of the artist behind the game at the same time seems deceptive.
Or, the speaker is not a person, and is some kind of plural entity, and the number of their instances that visited Berlin isn’t as large as it could be
I consider those really important because otherwise how can I make any real decisions at all about my own life
Given the Snowden leaks, it seems inevitable that if that data is being recorded and collected into the servers of a small number of US companies, that it will end up being used to enable nationwide searches regardless
Nah usually I don’t realize until much later
IIRC the first manga I read was Berserk and it was because the anime (the 90s one) ended right at the point in the story where it is fully established why the main character is so angry and wants revenge so bad
The body works in sensible ways for some things, so it’s easy to forget that we’re a product of a system that makes an arbitrary change as long as the improved chance of propagation outweighs the side effects which there probably will be some because we’re a deeply interconnected mess.
Light was a self-righteous authoritarian megalomaniac to begin with though, so it’s easy to imagine someone else being more ethical about it. To me it seemed like the point was that it’s really tricky to stay anonymous with a maxed out threat model.
Being the only blurred thing in the area seems a little conspicuous though
Getting good at reading bad code does seem like a worthwhile skill
CTRL+click
Oh hey it works, thanks.
How? I’m using vscodium. There are right click menus that bring you to function definitions and uses, but that isn’t necessarily faster than scrolling around and is still way more friction and more stuff you can’t see to hold in your short term memory.
IDEs also have collapse/expand features which make nested or longer functions easier to navigate.
Early returns seems good, but personally I find code more confusing when things get arbitrarily separated out into functions, because to read it you have to keep scrolling back and forth between different parts of the page and either remembering where the other part is or typing a lot with ctrl-f, there’s more variables to hold results, and if the section of code to be separated into a function is picked just because of nesting depth reasons then it’s likely the function name isn’t going to describe what it does very clearly, leading to more scrolling and more having to keep track of things in your head.
I also watch and like that channel, it definitely has a bias and affinity, but IMO it is well researched and does a good job of explaining that perspective and the rationale behind it as opposed to just reciting talking points. I liked the most recent video about the threat of permanent dystopias, even though I don’t agree with some of the implicit assumptions it’s making about the nature of the problem (Rationalist stuff leans neoliberal). It’s fun and probably important to think about the long term future of humanity in an analytical way, sci-fi style.
“Saw the very first cutscene, before any gameplay, and how the generative AI they used couldn’t even keep the main character’s model consistent,” reads the “most helpful” Steam review for Vapor World. “From the trailers the gameplay looked pretty fun [but] unfortunately I support people not robots. If the look you want to go for is beyond the scope you can achieve right now then I suggest you change it or wait until you can produce the art and style you want with people doing it.”
That’s pretty representative of the Steam reviews at the moment: Vapor World is currently sitting on 64 “mostly negative” reviews.
Can you leave a steam review and then refund a game? Otherwise how are so many people making the mistake of buying it when other reviews are already saying it has their dealbreaker issue of having used AI (that’s apparently obvious as soon as the first cutscene)?
It has a third leg that is a baseball?
Mostly just for torrents, one machine on my local network is always using a VPN to connect to the external internet. I would use it for more things like private web browsing, but without substantial additional setup I think my web browsing is guaranteed to be fingerprinted regardless of whether I conceal my IP so until I bother to set that up it doesn’t seem like there is much point.
initially meant to protect against corporate/capitalism over reach like this
The article makes this argument much better than I can summarize, so I really recommend reading it, but the idea is that the promise of intellectual property rights as a protection for creative workers is fundamentally flawed and is not fit for that purpose even if it seems to be on the surface, rather than being an otherwise good idea that has been corrupted by corporate influence.
Better to push for something difficult that could actually help workers than something some corporate factions are ok with precisely because they know it won’t.
Psychedelics/weed
You might also look at peer.xyz, which seems to have a roughly similar concept to Payram. The website seems a little sketchy in some ways but at least the git repo has code in it and there’s a chatroom that was active last I checked.
I used to have a few drinks every day, and put a lot of effort into cutting back to fewer, and not every day. It was a struggle because I felt like, there is something suffocating and claustrophobic about my default existence, and sometimes being drunk could alter it enough that I felt like myself. Although this was increasingly rare, the possibility made it feel worth it to roll the dice, so I felt very conflicted about cutting back, even though physically it made me feel like shit in general.
Then I tried better drugs and meditation and very abruptly it didn’t feel like a struggle at all because it turns out alcohol is next to useless for that purpose. Now I have a drink every few months or if social situations call for it, most of the time I just don’t want to.
The closest example to that given in the blog post is the writer’s guild strike:
If we’re workers, then we derive our power from labor rights. The Writers Guild – the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace – won their AI fight with a strike:
pluralistic.net/…/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-…
The Hollywood guilds are able to pursue a limited form of “sectoral bargaining” (where all the workers in a field bargain with all its bosses) called “multi-employer bargaining.” Bosses hate sectoral bargaining, and in 1947 they got it banned outright through the Taft-Hartley Act.
In general it makes the argument that it would make much more sense for people to be fighting for labor and privacy rights related to AI instead of IP rights which will ultimately fail to prevent it from harming their livelihoods.
Just imagine a world in which the only products manufactured are exclusively chasing the dollars of wealthy investors. So like yachts, custom giant statues, kill drone perimeters, etc.
Cops in the employ of organized crime are not exactly the people you would want having backdoor access to everyone’s phones lol