The problem is that LLMs aren’t human speech and any dataset that includes them cannot be an accurate representation of human speech.

It’s not “LLMs convinced humans to use ‘delve’ a lot”. It’s “this dataset is muddy as hell because a huge proportion of it is randomly generated noise”.

I can’t find any list of what they actually released in 2024.

But dredge and blasphemous 2 are still pretty recent that they explicitly mention as back catalogue that make sense to be doing OK.

It’s a collection of games you pick from a menu. The premise is that they’re all from the same studio back then, but they’re mostly standalone.

I’ve only tried a couple so far (the first couple) and they feel pretty basic. I guess if the theory is that they’re progression in their development over time the more compelling stuff would be later? Regardless, I wasn’t expecting 50 masterpieces, and they’ve made a point of communicating that they won’t all be huge and heavily featured.

I’d definitely be interested in suggestions of ones that stand out though.

Edit: Mortol is the first one I can really see spending some time trying to master. It’s a platformer where you have finite lives and need to kill yourself one of three ways to make a path forward for the next guy. I’m going on to new ones for now, but I like it.

Most of the stuff people think are RCS aren’t though. They’re proprietary extensions to RCS that only work on Google’s text message apps, transmitted through Google’s servers, with RCS junk as fallback for other services.

It’s not actually meaningfully different than Apple doing iMessage with fallback to RCS now.

Intercommunication is still going to be bad because the standard that carriers support isn’t where all the features are.

Photos without extremely well backed provenance are not and have not been credible evidence for a long time.

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You realize that your article says it’s a pipe dream right? Because even Google, pushing it, has no interest in actually supporting it in its tools, and neither does anyone else?

Advertising tracking is the primary space your privacy is invaded online. The fact that what phone you use is one of the most valuable data points they have that isn’t “you actively being signed in somewhere that shares it” is the evidence that telling people what phone you have to share a photo is a massive privacy issue. Because what phone you have is a lot of information.

What device you use is one of the biggest data points advertisers and trackers use to fingerprint you across the internet. No, “I use a Google Pixel 9” does not, by itself, de-anonymize you, but it does make a big dent when combined with other information.

You keep talking about “proving the authenticity of an image” with something that does not even move you .00000001% towards an image being legitimate. It is literally zero information about that question in every possible context. It is, eventually, if you throw out every camera on the planet and use heavy cryptography, theoretically possible to eventually, in the future, provide some evidence that some future picture came from some specific camera, but it will still not be proof that what that camera processed wasn’t manipulated.

You very clearly have no idea whatsoever what you’re talking about. This is all complete nonsense.

Anyone can write exif data to say anything they want it to. You “showing an image with earlier metadata” is completely arbitrary and doesn’t tell anyone literally anything about which one is more likely to be “real”. Again, it’s not “weak” or “bad” evidence. It is literally not capable of being evidence.

RCS still sucks. It’s a marginal improvement over MMS, and not more.

Basically all the stuff people actually care about are proprietary Google features because they had to use proprietary extensions and send everything through their own servers to make it work.

It’s really not different than iMessage. It’s no more open to any other messaging app or any other OS than iMessage is, and it isn’t really capable of being so unless the standard improves.

No, you cannot use metadata as even extremely weak evidence that an image is real. It is less than trivial to fake, and the second anyone even hints at making it a standard approach, it will be on every photo anyone uses to mislead anyone.

Most photos on the internet are camera phones, and you absolutely are not entitled to know what phone someone has. Knowing someone’s phone has infinitely more value to fingerprinting a user than including metadata could ever theoretically have to demonstrate whether a photo is legitimate or not.

Photos without a specific, on record provenance from a credible source are no longer useful for evidence of anything. You cannot go back from that.

A. It’s not even the weakest of weak evidence of whether a photo is legitimate. It tells you literally zero.

B. Even if it was concrete proof, that would still be a truly disgusting reason to think you were entitled to that information.

The device is no more anyone else’s business than anything else.

It should absolutely not be shared by default.

No, the default should be removing everything but maybe the date because of privacy implications.

I’ve finished chapter 4 of 10. I really like the art style. The top down 2D feels like 2D Zelda, the 2D platforming is a little slow but gives you the same moveset as the top down, and the 3D is basic, but really visually cool and again, same moves that all feel the same. The puzzles aren’t super complicated, but I have had to stop a second.

I wouldn’t have bought it (it’s included with the higher PS+ tier), and it seems too short with too little replayability for $30, but it’s a genuinely cool project.

They desperately need to do something about car software before China starts being really relevant here in EVs too.

I absolutely support massively restricting what anyone can gather, not just China, (and the same for social media/ad networks/retailers), but it’s fundamentally not the same threat as data vacuums controlled by an enemy state.

I’m not sure there’s going to be enough gameplay for me to play the whole thing, but it’s included with PS+ (extra?) and it’s definitely a nice looking package. I really like the color palette and just the way they’re approaching the visuals early.

Edit: I’m up to chapter 3. The top down feels similar to the 2D Zeldas. There are puzzles that have been basic so far but feel like they have a lot of potential. There’s side scrolling platforming. There’s some 3D platforming. There’s some insta-fail stealth (which I’m generally not a fan of and don’t love here either).

And if they want to make a lot of babies?

The issue seems to be how the money is designated, not the amount of money. Even if you have a million bucks budgeted for typewriters for one facility, it’s not automatically fungible.

I’m not saying there are no enthusiast spaces. I’m just explaining some of the tradeoffs that come with too low of a barrier entry when forming a community.

You want to be welcoming and accessible, not intimidating, etc, and I’m not saying any of that is bad. But you lose some of the magic where the whole community is relatively enthusiastic and has a shared vision for what it is when it’s easy for anyone to join and pull their own way.