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  1. Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI | Launch trailer in ~games

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    That is probably one of (if not the only) reasons they are releasing it early.

    That is probably one of (if not the only) reasons they are releasing it early.

  2. Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI | Launch trailer in ~games

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    I don't remember where I've seen this and even if it is official, but it was said that it's coming on the first half of 2027 aswell, right? not a whole year after like it happened with GTA V back...

    I don't remember where I've seen this and even if it is official, but it was said that it's coming on the first half of 2027 aswell, right? not a whole year after like it happened with GTA V back in the day.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Why is there no word for please in the Nordic languages – are their speakers simply more direct, or is politeness expressed in ways outsiders may not immediately recognise in ~humanities.languages

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    Oh, I'm only fluent in English and Spanish, so I may not have fully understood how answering by repeating the verb works in other languages then.

    Oh, I'm only fluent in English and Spanish, so I may not have fully understood how answering by repeating the verb works in other languages then.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Why is there no word for please in the Nordic languages – are their speakers simply more direct, or is politeness expressed in ways outsiders may not immediately recognise in ~humanities.languages

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    Well, english itself does it too. "Do you want cookies?" "I do"

    Well, english itself does it too. "Do you want cookies?" "I do"

    1 vote

  5. Comment on The return of phones with physical keyboards? in ~tech

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    I also barely type in japanese too but I do use the T9 method, thought I didn't know it was called like that, I was just fidgeting with my phone's keyboard and found out I could have that...

    I also barely type in japanese too but I do use the T9 method, thought I didn't know it was called like that, I was just fidgeting with my phone's keyboard and found out I could have that configuration and made more sense to me :P

    1 vote

  6. Comment on The return of phones with physical keyboards? in ~tech

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    That is kinda how stenography keyboards work, actually. They are physical keyboards where you don't need to type full words, you press combinations of keys and software expands them into whole...

    The way phone texting works these days is that you just maximize the amount of letters you can vomit and let autocorrect take the wheel

    That is kinda how stenography keyboards work, actually. They are physical keyboards where you don't need to type full words, you press combinations of keys and software expands them into whole words or even phrases. They're used on court rooms to transcript everything that's being said.

  7. Comment on Given everything we know about AI so far, what do you think it can or cannot be good for? in ~tech

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    Just wanted to add how it amplifies confirmation bias since it will always try not to hurt your feelings and agree with you more often than not.

    But when the data is in flux or it's largely based off of things that confident idiots said online it can spit out hallucinations and wrong information with great confidence. It's not a universally good tool.

    Just wanted to add how it amplifies confirmation bias since it will always try not to hurt your feelings and agree with you more often than not.

    11 votes

  8. Comment on Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI in ~tech

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    Yeah, exactly. It actually reminds me a bit of tobacco. Early on, it was advertised as beneficial or harmless, while the companies selling it had every incentive to emphasize the positives. With...

    Yeah, exactly. It actually reminds me a bit of tobacco. Early on, it was advertised as beneficial or harmless, while the companies selling it had every incentive to emphasize the positives. With AI, we're hearing a similar constant message that it's "the future" and that we should integrate it into everything.

    Obviously the comparison isn't perfect, but I think the broader lesson still applies. We often don't fully understand the downsides of a technology until it's already widespread and people have built habits around it. By the time the harms become clearer, it can be much harder to change those habits.

    So even if we can't yet say, "Don't do this with AI for this specific thing, but use it for that" but I think there's still value in openly promoting caution and awareness now that we're starting to see side-effects. We can acknowledge that these tools are useful while also encouraging people to pay attention to when they're augmenting their thinking versus simply replacing it, specially on the schools.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI in ~tech

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    I do agree with a lot of this, especially that LLMs and social media are probably more symptoms of deeper problems than the root cause themselves. If you build systems where people are heavily...

    I do agree with a lot of this, especially that LLMs and social media are probably more symptoms of deeper problems than the root cause themselves. If you build systems where people are heavily incentivized to optimize for grades, productivity, money, etc. Of course they're going to use whatever tools let them do that as efficiently as possible. And obviously outsourcing thought, relying on heuristics, groupthink, authority, stereotypes, etc. existed long before LLMs. Where I disagree is with the idea that this means the technology itself isn't also part of the problem.

    Something doesn't have to create a human tendency in order to amplify it. We already tend to look for easier, faster, more comfortable ways of doing things, so giving everyone a tool that can instantly research, summarize, reason through problems, and produce answers for them is obviously going to make cognitive offloading much easier and more attractive than it was before. That doesn't make LLMs inherently bad, any more than the fact that cars make it easier not to walk makes cars inherently bad. But their affordances do change our behavior, and I don't think we can completely separate the tool from the way it encourages or enables certain habits.

    So to me the answer isn't "LLMs are the problem," but it also isn't "LLMs have nothing to do with the problem." We need to learn how to use them responsibly and, probably more importantly, teach people when using them helps them think better and when it's just replacing the thinking they actually need to do.

    21 votes

  10. Comment on That book you remember some details but can't recall the title in ~books

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    This is kind of an odd one, and I’m not even sure the book has an English edition. I got it as a prize in a school drawing contest and read it in Spanish when I was in primary school. (Read might...

    This is kind of an odd one, and I’m not even sure the book has an English edition. I got it as a prize in a school drawing contest and read it in Spanish when I was in primary school. (Read might be a bit generous, though. I gave it a try and probably dropped it around 50 pages in because I was a kid and didn't really understand it.)

    What I remember most clearly is the cover. It had a painting-like art style and showed a post-apocalyptic world where the ocean had risen high enough to cover most buildings, leaving only the upper parts sticking out like islands.

    The story itself was set in that kind of world. The strange thing is that, from what I remember, everyone seemed completely used to it. People were just living normal lives among these abandoned buildings surrounded by a huge ocean, as if that was simply how the world had always been.

    I vaguely remember most or all of the characters being kids, but I honestly don't know whether that was actually stated or if younger me just assumed they were around my age.

    Unfortunately, I can't remember any specific conversations, character names, or actual plot points. I just have this vague feeling that it was more metaphorical or allegorical than a straightforward post-apocalyptic story, something where the world might have been more symbolic than realistic, a bit like the feeling you get from The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

    I never got very far into it and definitely didn't understand much of what I was reading, so that's about all I've got.

  11. Comment on What single episode of a show would you recommend as a standalone? in ~tv

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    Oh man... I remember watching this on TV when it first came out. I was kinda young and it made me not want to blink that whole day...

    Oh man... I remember watching this on TV when it first came out. I was kinda young and it made me not want to blink that whole day...

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Why do we find Tildes (and Lobsters) more interesting than the alternatives? in ~tech

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    It's not only reddit. All the mainstream social media have been feeling like nothing but a septic tank if you actually try to interact with people in there. There are some exceptions of course,...

    It's not only reddit. All the mainstream social media have been feeling like nothing but a septic tank if you actually try to interact with people in there. There are some exceptions of course, and at least on the circles I move around there's mostly positive, but there is always someone that's going to either deliberately "ragebait" you or they are straight up ignorant.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Does anyone recognize this phishing attack? in ~comp

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    This is probably the main recommendation I would emphasize. Even take it a step further and say that, if you are the person being contacted, you should be the one providing the meeting link...

    Asking her to meet outside of her channels: Stick to her approved channels (email, Zoom, telephone) to connect with clients for preliminary meetings.

    This is probably the main recommendation I would emphasize. Even take it a step further and say that, if you are the person being contacted, you should be the one providing the meeting link whenever possible. At the very least, you should choose the channel you are comfortable using and verify that any link shared by the other person is a legitimate, official link for that platform.

    22 votes

  14. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    I understand why it may sound like that. I could probably have worded my post in a way that felt less accusatory. I tend to be direct, but I can see how it came across here. I'm enjoying the game,...

    I understand why it may sound like that. I could probably have worded my post in a way that felt less accusatory. I tend to be direct, but I can see how it came across here.

    I'm enjoying the game, but I personally wouldn't feel good spending money on it if its art wasn't made by artists. Based on what I've seen, I suspect some of it wasn't, but I don't know for certain how much of it's development is. That's why I wanted to hear what other people thought.

    9 votes

  15. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    That's not the intention of my post. I'm asking what other players have noticed, not calling for anyone to target the developers. Some specific assets look unmistakably AI-generated to me,...

    That's not the intention of my post. I'm asking what other players have noticed, not calling for anyone to target the developers.

    Some specific assets look unmistakably AI-generated to me, especially the artwork I mentioned. I can't verify how those assets were made, so I don't present it as a proven fact. But I also don't think discussing what's visible in the game is a witch hunt.

    I'm enjoying the game and, like I said, plan to keep playing it so I don't see the problem on discussing this.

    22 votes

  16. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    That is partly why I think it has the popularoty that it does right now, it could be just that but there is many assets that are clearly generated. Despite the game actually feeling smooth to play...

    That is partly why I think it has the popularoty that it does right now, it could be just that but there is many assets that are clearly generated. Despite the game actually feeling smooth to play and checking a lot of the needs for a game lika that, the fact that they're lying or trying to hide the usage of these tools is pretty shady.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else? in ~games

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    Well, it ticks a lot of boxes for what people want from a game, myself included. There's an open world to explore, and you can play casually or go completely bananas with optimization and...

    Well, it ticks a lot of boxes for what people want from a game, myself included. There's an open world to explore, and you can play casually or go completely bananas with optimization and min-maxing if you want to farm day and night. As far as I can tell, you can play entirely F2P or pay your way through to the top, much like Genshin. I haven’t found any content that’s strictly paywalled, though I could be wrong.

    It also has some Zelda-like puzzle mechanics. For example, you can use an ice-type creature to freeze water, then move the frozen slabs around to build a ramp. I hate to say it's entertaining to play, and the smooth look and feel probably make it more approachable for some people, even if the designs do look pretty generic. The NPCs and dialogue are soulless and generic, but the creatures surprisingly seem to have distinct personalities, and for a game that is kind of only about the creatures I guess it does make sense.

    1 vote

  18. Is Aniimo’s AI usage as obvious to anyone else?

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    I've been playing Aniimo for a bit. The gameplay is fun, but some of the artwork looks blatantly AI generated to me. I've seen images with double headed animals and wheat that seems to disappear....

    I've been playing Aniimo for a bit. The gameplay is fun, but some of the artwork looks blatantly AI generated to me. I've seen images with double headed animals and wheat that seems to disappear. Maybe those are placeholders, but the dialogue, some creature and NPC designs, and even the voiceacting set off my spidey sense too.

    The developers claim they don't use generative AI for creating the characters, world and story, but haven't been clear about where they do and don't use it specifically as far as I know. Is it as obvious to anyone else as it is to me? Has anyone found clearer evidence either way?

    I may keep playing because it's fun, but I won't spend a single bit of my money on it. The fact that it feels like a Genshin rip-off makes the whole thing kind of funny, too.

    10 votes

  19. Comment on What is your dream game? in ~games

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    I have seen crazy clips with some sort of grappling hook aswell, it does seem like my cup of tea, so if there's any good deals online at some point I will hundred percent buy it.

    I have seen crazy clips with some sort of grappling hook aswell, it does seem like my cup of tea, so if there's any good deals online at some point I will hundred percent buy it.

  20. Comment on What is your dream game? in ~games

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    I have actually not given any of the Whatchdogs games a fair chance yet, but I may. I remember being excitedwhen it got anounced since I was a huge Assassins creed fan so bringing a similar...

    I have actually not given any of the Whatchdogs games a fair chance yet, but I may. I remember being excitedwhen it got anounced since I was a huge Assassins creed fan so bringing a similar fantasy but futuristic, with hacking and what not sounded fun but then the gameplay didn't seem engaging enough so never really got around to buy it, now it's like 2€ on steam so I may actually get it.