Let’s build an app to liberate communications but only release it inside a closed garden. Great idea

That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career

This is such bullshit. Models have already consumed all available data and have nothing left to consume, whole needing exponentially more data for progressive advancements

You need yo block the alibaba subnets primarily. In my experience this is where most of them originate

Not gonna argue with you mate, I know we disagree fundamentally on what the fediverse means. Me and most others never will see eye to eye with you with your capitalist growth-focused approach.

Network effects are incredibly strong. Xitter is now a disinformation and fascist hellhole, and yet people who should know better still refuse to leave. We have the advantage that we’re not growth focused, so we can can bide our time. The inevitable enshittification will do its job eventually, but there’s no telling when the tipping point will happen.

I’m not OK with any business practices of AAA studios, and I don’t think there’s a way for them to get enough educated consent for creations (i.e. not just someone accepting a shitty TOS on deviantart 6 years ago) to make a good GenAI model. But if I were to put aside the first part and assume a magical reality where the second could manifest without coercion and lies, I would theoretically be OK with it as long as that model passed to the commons when the works it was trained on did as well.

Complete overreaction, but I agree that commercial games should not be using GenAI art. If you’re making money out of selling your game, then don’t use something which abused to commons to do so. If you’re making a FOSS game, I don’t see a problem with it.

Nice for you, bad for the mods. Only way to do that without outsourcing mental strain to other people is to self host

Author admits they don’t ask for donations and then use the lack of donation as evidence for their arguments. Amazing logic there.

Also whatever the fuck this is

By the way, next time you see a request for donations at any project, think about the reasoning in the head of the product owner.

Some of us ask for donations because we know people don’t actually think about it. Fuck you for implying we’re closer to being sellouts than you are.

This blog gives me right-libertarian vibes with its promotion of “open - core” shite and how focused it is on money.

I’m not close to burnout but thanks for the concern. I don’t run my instance like lemm.ee does for a reason ;)

Unfortunately that philosophy led them to close down their instance due to burnout, so maybe it’s not exactly a winning one 😅

If we get pwned, or otherwise compromised, one cannot tie your username to an email. The same reason the OP doesn’t want to provide an email I guess.

We require a valid email for registration as an anti-spam measure, but you can garble the email afterwards.

Israel’s element of surprise was enhanced by Iranian officials’ apparent assumption that Israel wouldn’t attack while talks over its rapidly advancing nuclear program were ongoing with the U.S.

Relevant

Yes lemmy can serve as a good replacement for a picture sharing group

Ewww

I did not but kinda impossible to miss the similarities :)

VC-backed OpenAI is the most valuable company in the world and is engaging in massive environmental destruction. The US state just went into cahoots with them to the tune of billions

VC-backed Uber and AirBnb disrupted multiple estabilished industries for the worst by undercutting them through loss-leading.

VC-backed Facebook killed or purchased all its rivals and consolidated almost all social media to the detriment of the whole world.

So, basically what every VC-backed capitalist is doing. But we don’t see these constant articles of “But at what cost” for every VC-backed venture