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Everyone: "Games are getting WAY too expensive."

Out of touch executive: "Games are too cheap! Why are our sales going down? I promised the shareholders infinite growth!"

This is California. 60% of the population will readily support this. The other 40% think that murder is one of their Constitutional freedoms. Thankfully, they are the minority and can continue to move themselves to Florida, Tennessee, Texas and other minor 'murican ethnostate dictatorships. The rest of us rational freedom-loving Californians bid them adieu.

Well yeah - because that’s not how LLMs work. They generate sentences that conform to the word-relationship statistics that were generated during the training (e.g. making comparisons between all the data the model was trained on). It does not have any kind of logic and it does not know things. It literally just navigates a complex web of relationships between words using the prompt as a guide, creating sentences that look statistically similar to the average of all trained sentences.

TL;DR; It’s an illusion. You don’t need to run experiments to realize this, you just need to understand how AI/ML works.

Capitalism is a tragedy for the commons.

Imaginary, since peanuts grow underground like potatos.

If you must, consider things that are unlikely to kill other people. The furry little troublemakers definitely love birdseed and sunflowers…

I have a kid with a peanut allergy and when peanuts started showing up all over the place outside, we asked our neighbors the same thing: please stop giving the squirrels peanuts. We couldn't let the kids go outside in their own backyard.

Thankfully, our neighbors are all generally really nice people and not child-murdering monsters, and actually stopped it.

People: Keep your peanuts to yourself and do not feed wildlife. Both of those things are common sense.

Phrased another way: "Republicans once again hold a gun to the countries head."

"Let us cut some fingers off!" they demand. "If you don't, we'll shoot the country right in the head!"

And, of course, this will all somehow be painted as the Democrats fault.

Rightists: "Socialism is when the poors get any manner of social benefit."

Never mind that the poors are the primary source of the funds for said benefit. We live in a system where the rich control a system that allows them to plunder from the poor and funnel those funds to themselves.

Capitalism is theft, and theft is capitalism. Capitalism is good.

But pooling our collective resources for the general benefit of all us... that's bad. That's socialism.

How DARE the plebes be allowed to spend their money on themselves when some multimillionaires that destroyed their billion dollar businesses need a bigger yacht and a fourth European vacation home!?

That doesn't work with AI for a variety of technical and practical reasons.

Two people could, completely coincidentally, generate something that is so similar that it looks the same at a glance... even with dramatically different prompts on dramatically different models.

No, the output of an AI is fundamentally "coincidental" and should not be subject to copyright. Human intent and authorship MUST be a significant factor. An artist can still use AI in their workflow, but their direct involvement and manipulation must be meaningfully "transformative" for copyright to apply in a fair and equitable way.

Agreed. I believe in a strong public domain and militantly protected fair use; AFAIC, all unaltered AI output should be considered public domain. Direct human authorship (or "substantially transformative" modification) is the benchmark for where copyright should apply.

Yes! This is why the hate I see for Epic (or non-Steam in general) bugs me so much. Epic has done nothing but right by developers. While they could definitely make their storefront/app better (and they claim they are working on it) for the customer experience, I have nothing but respect for them as a company.

I will still buy games on Steam first, given a choice, but that is only because I am now a staunch acolyte of the Steam Deck, and installing via Steam is much easier than trying to get EGS games running on the device.