If things keep going the way they seem to be, we’re going to end up back with the same thing as old cable channel packages and ads on all streaming services.

They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.

Most of these trimmed down portable Wiis boot into a homebrew menu as they don’t have the IR lights attached by default (the Wii “sensor” bar which is just two IR lightbulbs), needed to navigate the menu using a Wiimote.

It’s a novelty. Hardware hackers have been making smaller and more portable Wiis for years, finding more parts of the motherboard they can cut off, ways to rearrange mobo parts and reconnect them without impacting functionality, discrete parts they can replace with more modern smaller equivalents, etc.

This represents the smallest they’ve been able to cut down Wii hardware, still have it be functional, and still have the core be the original hardware, not a general use CPU with an emulation solution running over top. It’s not a commercial product meant to compete with emulators on existing portable devices like phones and SBCs.

If it helps it make any more sense, from other posts of this comic on lemmy, the original posts seem to be on pixiv, which is on paper a site for hosting art, but in reality seems to exist primarily to host a lot of hentai. Mostly hentai.

I’ve also noticed a small trend lately where adult artists fish for comissions by making strangely horny webcomics.

I hope it does better than the last try.

Bunch of disparate thoughts about this. Apologies.

You can’t just purity test an entire profession. Or at least it isn’t reasonable to do so.

You have to dig, but there are artists and authors out there who have positive opinions about AI. I’m sure the folks more active on !techtakes@awful.systems could get a list together of their favorite sneer targets.

All the anti-ai tools are coming from programmers. anubis, iocaine, nepenthes, nightshade, and more.

I’d suggest that it’s worth remembering that a large portion of any online discourse is going to be made up of teenagers, college students, and people new to whatever it is they’re discussing. But almost all of them will talk with an implied authority on whatever subject it is anyway. Many subs on reddit have done demorgraphics polls (or polls that included a question about age) and the results makes the sillier places like relationship advice make a hell of a lot more sense.

I have almost a decade of work experience in IT, more if you count some intro to programming teaching gigs I did. AI coding assistance tools are positioned perfectly to be like crack for early learners, but don’t actually add too much value for more experienced folks (especially not anything can’t be done faster with existing non-ai tools, like an IDE’s code snippets features for repeated boilerplate code, which is the most frequent excuse I see online).

That said, I have literally never met any dev in real life that thinks favorably of AI coding assistance.

What I see more and more is corporate management types being afraid that all the hype for AI coming out of Gartner etc means that if they don’t force their employees to use it they will get left behind as their competitors magically produce more somehow. At that point as an employee your choices are to work to meet whatever shit metric they’ve constructed or give up making a paycheck.

It’s very easy to tell other people they need to be more principled when it’s not your food/shelter/insurance/livelyhood on the line.

And it’s also worth noting that what the current wave of popular AI (LLMs) does best is generate text. So of course you’re going to see text posts online trying to shift the window. That’s the company using their horrific tool as designed. There was evidence of AI bots hyping AI in the programming subs on reddit that got overshadowed by them shutting off third party API access.

AI is only as inevitable for as long as the megacorps can keep funneling money into the pit. The world leader in AI conpanies, OpenAI, is doing so great with money that they are trying to threaten their business partner Microsoft out of roughly $40B. This could all blow up fairly soon. I hope it does.

There absolutely are devs out there who are getting ground down, where there principles are becoming eroded over time.

But like with many things in life, the rabble at the bottom aren’t the ones effecting real long term change, media coverage, corporate adoption, etc. Don’t turn this into some crab pot situation.

Go after the tech reporters continually giving AI the benefit of the doubt. Go after industry steering publications like Gartner. Go after politicians giving AI projects sweetheart deals that allow them to coast by without having to compete fairly based off their actual costs (OpenAI loses money on every request it serves). That allow AI datacenters to continuously violate local laws. That allow the datacenters to pollute their local water table. Go after the management enacting requirements that their subordinates demonstrate how AI is improving their work efficiency on pain of firing. You get the picture.

And sure, call out individuals. But please don’t label us all as a group on this.

EDIT: old man intensifies. And another thing! (to support my point that the corps need to be the target in these discussions):

Companies like Microsoft are resorting to forcing AI features into their products and defaulting those AI features to ON in order to get the user numbers they need to keep justifying the absurd expenditure on AI, and to be able to keep pushing the false narrative into the media of everyone using AI.

These effectively fabricated increases in user numbers from these features being default on means that the impact of individual programmers and devs deciding to use or not use AI are not going to move the needle significantly enough to make a difference.

I’m proud to say that currently my workplace has all this shit disabled on an enterprise level, and firewall blocks preventing using any of it. Unfortunately that will only last as long as it takes for the suits to come up with a sufficiently paranoid acceptable use policy. We’re doing what we can to keep stoking the idea that putting any info into these things is effectively selling it to potential competitors, but that can only go so far against Gartner and the like whispering in the C-suite’s ear.

Anyway. Everyone has a duty to say no to this shit, but all the companies are already using every dirty trick they can to boost the user numbers. If you’re running around under the impression that the absurd user numbers represent true users, and that those users must be comprised entirely of tech workers because artists never would use AI, then you’re looking at a false narrative being pushed by the people who stand to make the most money off this shit. The user numbers are not accurate to begin with.

Excuse me? I didn’t say fucking anything about keeping this from being political. I suggested some extra patience and room for nuance when judging the voting populace on the actions of their elected officials.

Beyond that, did my phrasing about getting your scope zeroed fly over your fucking head? Only clipped your ear maybe?

To make it crystal fucking clear: I told you that your take is absolutely fucking ghoulish to direct at the victims and I stand by that. Go after the fucking politicians with all you fucking have, not the people who have lost their kids.

That’s it. None of this fucking essay you’ve imagined into my motiviations. I’m done, so feel free to crazy up some more shit I never said. Have fun with it. Go nuts.

So even this instance of personal responsibility is significantly offset by the actions of a few. I’m all for doing what each of us can, but that’s fucking hilarious.

Respectfully: As I’ve already stated, none of this exists in a vacuum. You don’t get to just declare shit irelevant. Regardless of your mental gymnastics, you are peacocking/gloating about having the right beliefs/voting policy in the aftermath of these children being dead.

Disrespectfully: Your belief that you can somehow claim any sort of moral highground here is absolutely ghoulish. I sincerely hope you never are denied compassion or help in your time of need by someone professing beliefs like yours.

The people? Or the husks in skinsuits we through mass delusion have decided to refer to as politicians?

Or maybe they’re just upset that you’re using the deaths of children to be smug.

There’s a lot more going on in politics than “insert vote, recieve outcome voted for”. Gerrymandering, simply being stuck in an area where you are the political minority, politicians campaigning on an entriely different platform than the actions they take later while in office… I could go on, but I expect my words would be wasted.

The dead girls weren’t even old enough to vote.

In b4 you start running your mouth off about how it’s okay to wish death on the bad people because of what they’re doing to you/the good people. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and even if it did, you’re aimed at the wrong targets. Get your scope zeroed in properly.

This is just a blatant grift. The link on how to add links just sends to a ko-fi page where you’re charging money.

And completely ignoring a whole bunch of reasons that “the million dollar webpage” worked that mean that something like this won’t.

Good luck I guess.

There will always be more content than anyone can keep up with in a single lifetime. I’ve long since lost the motivation to race along at the front edge of new shit.

I pick up new artists from shows, movies, youtube videos, and games. I also regularly let youtube music (revanced, so no ads) run past the end of my playlists and suggest new stuff. I used to use Pandora for this as well.

On super rare occasions (been over a year now) I’ll check out you groove you lose threads on 4chan and discover a few more artists.

Yeah. Anthropic regularly releases these stories and they almost always boil down to “When we prompted the AI to be mean, it generated output in line with ‘mean’ responses! Oh my god we’re all doomed!”

Pretty sure they advertised the first season of that arc directly stating that it was a coma arc.

Wow. The first 24 seconds of this 1 minute teaser are just clips of major spoilers of the ending of the first season. Remember all these characters that died? Let’s watch their brains splatter out again. Enjoy the gore!

That’s definitely a choice. I guess that’s one way to keep people from expecting this to feature more content with the same characters from season 1. Still think it would have been better to title it something different than Edgerunners 2 considering it’s not likely to tie in with that story.

I wonder when this is going to be set. Before 2077 makes the most sense. If it’s after then they’d have to canonize at least some aspects of one of the game endings.

Since when have rights holders ever been held responsible for the actions of online players?

The only instances I can think of are when games exclusively target minors, like Roblox.

And in what crazy world would those scant responsibilities carry over to community servers after official support was ended?

What a cop out.

There’s a setting in the user profile to block/not block stuff tagged nsfw

Yep, and now all the big companies do their own shows on their own time using their considerable budget while the smaller companies and indie devs get shoved into a diaspora of smaller cons and events that limit their reach.

It’s a win-win!