are any of these actual decompilations tho? my understanding is that to be a good decomp, it has to compile to the same binary as the original, that’s how you know your decomp is perfect. that’s what the infamous game decomps made before ai (mario 64, devilution, lego island…) did

the ai-generated “decomps” aren’t even in the same language! both the ms office and photoshop ones are in rust!

it’s not excuses, just (informed) theories about material conditions that could lead to this

what’s your explanation for this? genuinely curious

i’m kinda doubtful that the blanket “technology = bad” thesis in the article is true, honestly. i’m obviously not a neuroscientist but it seems super reductive and simplistic to me, and altho i believe that yes reliance on short-form content and ai summaries isn’t good for your attention span, that’s 1. not the same thing as intelligence and 2. faaaaar from being exclusive to gen z (or gen alpha for that matter). look at any older person with a phone and you’ll see it. my parents waste a ton of time on the glowing rectangle too and they treat the google summary like the gospel

underfunded education, extremely bleak prospects for the future that lead to mass anxiety and depression (which is bad for your brain, shockingly), and having your formative years during a pandemic whose long-term effects include cognitive impairment will do that to you, yea

meanwhile, asset packs:

also, the problem you describe is part of the reason why hyper realistic games are a problem and expecting all games to fit that mold is bad. your bookshelf is a background detail, it’s fine if all books are just flat colors. using ai for this is the worst of both worlds: it looks unimpressive (half the reason people like hyper realism in games is that they can go “whoa look at all the effort they put in!”), and it takes a massive amount of space on people’s hard drives for no reason!

looking at recent kernel commits, that penguin is zoinked out on that milk too…

was the mythical “ethical use of ai” real after all???

what “service” is she providing, other than murdering innocent people in the middle east to make your oil cheaper?

this is why statues glorifying horrors shouldn’t be “recontextualized”, or hidden in an archive somewhere, they should be destroyed

🚗💥🔨

your brain and a text editor

A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

oh wow i can’t see how this could go wrong! /s

the whole site honestly reeks of vibecoded in an afternoon too. still extremely funny tho, i hope they win their case

zoning laws when you want to build a nice neighborhood with shops among the houses: 😡🤬✋🛑 think about the Character of the Neighborhood!!!

zoning laws when you want to build the Giant Evil Building of Doom and Constant High-Pitched Noise: 😁😇👍✅

no that’s just wrong. that word is extremely offensive in many parts of europe and in canada as well, and i don’t doubt it’s offensive in other places too. it is absolutely offensive in france (and other francophone parts of europe/america) too.

token if someone digitizes a physical medium and makes it available to the public copyright is no longer valid

only if you destroy the original i guess

(the real answer is that copyright is and always has been a tool for corporations to control the ownership of culture. what ai companies are doing isn’t fine in the eye of the state because it’s “transformative”, it’s fine in the eyes of the state because they’re corporations selling their products)

so does google docs iirc. it can even export to odt

noooo! not propaganda into my perfectly unbiased and neutral facts machine!

the ai when you tell it you’re being murdered

but then, wouldn’t the “physical” stats also include download codes you can buy at stores? maybe those are few enough in sales to be negligible, idk

it would also certainly include game key cards

as others have said, don’t necessarily stop using wikipedia & related tools (wiktionary, etc). they’re still useful and using them doesn’t directly benefit the foundation.

however, if the union calls for an editorial strike (no more editing) or a full-on boycott, follow what they say, out of solidarity. it’s what i plan on doing. in general, i think this is the best reaction to union busting: follow what the union says.

and yea, stop donating if you’re doing that.