Did they run out of superheroes?
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•I wish I had a retro handheld enthusiast friend IRLbySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
3 daysBe careful out there.
My ex claimed to be super into retro gaming and I even spent while putting together a nice setup so she, and me, could play on the couch like in the TV show Home & Away.
But it was all lies. All she was interested in was sex, drugs, rock & roll, and Netflix shows about complete wankers.
Thankfully her son smashed up his ps4 in a ragequit and then spent several months addicted to old retro games until he got a new one.
Games@lemmy.world•Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artworkbySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
3 daysIt’s a hellscape, I’ve decided to retreat to Dead or Alive wAIfu’s from the early 2000’s due to concerns about the appeal of novel secret agent sexy fish.
First they came for the women of insta with filters and I did not speak out, now they are coming for the sexy fish I will make my stand.
Technology@lemmy.world•We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilitybySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
5 daysThe witch hunt vibes seems apt, the maleficarum got really grim in the wake of the printing press and we’ve got new meme makers now and the pitchforks are being sharpened.
The article kinda hits it home, it’s generic hysterical slop and a solid treatment of the matter will likely be available to the public for £300 from an academic press in a year or three if they promise not to share it. Then an llm will eat it and I will be able to get a summary, mixed in with lemmy comments, for my daily token ration from China: the circle of life.
Afaiu it’s somewhat easier to wreck the book and one would imagine there’s a few books cutting about that whilst not yet fully digital are also not on the endangered species list.
Sharing the knowledge for the greater good is a no go I think, especially in the USA. Me or you can do it on slsk but if a rich corp tries to do it they’ll get shafted fast & hard and the massive academic presses will not tolerate upskilling the poor.
Technology@lemmy.world•We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilitybySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
6 daysI don’t think they are devouring the Garima Gospels, Cuneiform tablets and deleting hieroglyphs from granite but the worry is if we don’t stop them now it’s a slippery slope and the VHS tapes will be next.
Technology@lemmy.world•Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagerybySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
6 daysJesus being readied for the cross by the sinful woman seems kinda 4-6th century 50 Shades of Hyssop and worth a peek, Jacob of Serugh & co.
Technology@lemmy.ml•Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
9 daysCorey’s entertaining on the evangelical circuit but I’d be wary of reading those kinda shitposts as Gospels.
Laziness still a factor methinks and people are often not that stupid ime, they know exactly what they are doing when they outsource social networking to meta or shopping to Jeff.
We’ve been outsourcing effort since the oldowan and things got really bad in wake of writing, this is not new.
The twitch thing seems a bit absurd where if streamers don’t consent the poor LLM’s will need to actually watch the drivel they are openly streaming for attention instead of getting it via API which will just waste more cpu cycles for lolz.
Technology@lemmy.ml•Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
10 daysThere was no need to steal, people willing gave access into every facet of their lives from banking to socials to spotify.
We were generating the slop and feeding it to the beast on a grand scale for decades, now the beast is vomiting all the slop back up.
Technology@lemmy.ml•Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
11 daysunfortunately feeding the beast was normalized long ago
there was some resistance in the early 2000’s but we got lazy and want cheap flights, easy ways to pay for shit and real time maps so gave it all up for lolz
Technology@lemmy.ml•Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
11 daysBy the time you are livestreaming on twitch one would assume all caution regarding feeding the beast has long left the room and few fucks will be given.
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic?bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 daysThis sounds more like you have some kinda religious objection to a perfectly normal term in use for 100yrs or so.
It’s not marketing, it’s the english language https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/artificial-intelligence
With all due respect I’m not really sure your feelings on what constitutes humanlike matters much.
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic?bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 daysWe don’t have AI?
What year are you posting from?
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should I be using a VPN on my phone to protect my identity and security while emailing and online banking?bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 daysno, just enjoy your cool phone
if you do care about privacy, don’t use the phone
even if you don’t care about your bank account, the bank do and will ID verify you and have considered vpn’s
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic?bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 daysIt’s been an academic discipline since the 1950’s and a work in progress since at least Ada Lovelace.
Calling AI a scam for idiots is fair enough: but please include writing, machines and computers there too.
World class moron Linus Torvadls on the matter 14 July 2026:
"AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.
It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today."***
Technology@lemmy.world•Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlementbySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 days‘Harry Potter publisher’ seems more the clickbait:
“Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 a title.”
You wouldn’t download a pdf…
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic?bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 daysBreaking News: High failure rates reported in early stage Oldowan startups make millennials reconsider tool use.
This just seems like anti-computer evangelism from the 1950’s and 1960’s, and anti internet stuff in the 90’s, being repurposed.
I’m working with anti-Manichean attacks repurposing old anti-Marcionite attacks at the moment, same stuff.
Bronze tooling is more than fine to get stuff done.
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic?bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 daysyeah, it would be a large use of resources for not much gain
I think what the current LLM clusterfuck is showing is that our little world or copy left and copy right we duct taped together since the printing press is all a bit silly.
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favorite shaving tool, if any? I'll go first...bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
12 daysSome people get into the hundreds, others want a new one daily.
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favorite shaving tool, if any? I'll go first...bySnailMagnitude@mander.xyzEnglish
13 daysNice, I’m a bit rusty of the models but I do tend prefer a short handle on a DE.









The marketing department said it was but I’m not so sure.