Net negative, I’d say, especially in the long run.

By training LLMs, you’re neglecting to train the entry level workers who grow to be seniors. If we keep going down this rabbit hole, there will be no one who knows ‘the old ways’ and understand why we do things a certain way.

Additionally, the energy consumption and land occupation is massive and far outweighs the benefits, making things more scarce, especially since more people will lose their jobs.

For the tiny % of people who actually put it to good use, there’s 100x more abusing or mishandling it.

Been on Linux for gaming for almost a year now and completely windows free since November last year. It’s glorious.

I use Arch, btw.

The cost keeps increasing. That’s hilarious.

But of course he was building a bunker. There’s literally no surprises there. It’ll be the new den of rape for sure.

And it’s so bloody frustrating!!! Not only have the Americans got us by the jugular, the Zionists have as well.

I hope this is the tip of the iceberg for what’s to come.

Seize your country back!!

The first step is always the hardest after decades of oppression and misinformation!

Yes, because usually the people using generative AI for rapid concepts like these are the higher ups with no art experience, just a vision. Then they send it to a concept artist to ‘make it work’ without understanding processes or complexity or feasibility of what they’re asking.

AI had essentially become a tool for people with no high level skill to simulate high level skill, but without any of the understanding that comes from years of real world practice. Often it costs more money because the concept artist now has no control of the workflow and has to sink more time into trying to make a shit concept work properly with the medium.

Case in point: the upcoming Zelda movie’s concepts were all done by generative AI and there’s only one concept artist (usually at least 100) trying to make the shit concepts work for film.

They can’t do anything with landlines though, so i suppose that’s what it’ll eventually happen after age checks for everything.

But, again, why? All this is applied post production, so there’s no control from the artist’s perspective on what the player sees on their end. I’d much rather a static pipeline where I’m in control of the look and feel, while also providing the player with options for accessibility like gamma adjustment.

But if a tool enhances a texture in a specific way, for instance sharpening lines along a garment, or adding shadows to an object under a lamp, how is that different than existing texture mapping algs?

We already have all that. This ‘feature’ literally adds nothing of value to our pipeline because it is all applied after the product is shipped and on the player’s computer.

Further, because it’s a filter, it obfuscates what’s actually happening underneath. Why learn to predict what the filter will do when you can just not work with it and create scenes exactly how you want it?

This whole thing is providing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist simply to recoup their investments. It’s a complete waste of energy, materials, processing power etc. Absolutely unnecessary.

But… Why though? As a dev, why would I go through the ideation process only to have it filtered through TWO GPUs? For what benefit? This type of filtering is completely out of my control as a developer, and I wouldn’t want my game to be attached to third party parasite companies and basically split my player base into two classes.

And this is why indie games will probably have a second golden age.

Is this because of AUKUS?

Most standard street lighting comes in 4000K for some reason. It’s completely dumb. I’ve spoken to Melbourne City council about this many times but there’s a perception (an incorrect one) that 4000K feels ‘safer’.

We should all be actually using PC Amber LED chips but noooooo… Too ‘expensive’.

Also all LEDs should have lens optics and move away from reflectors to get a wide range of beam angles to prevent glare and other bad stuff that comes with using LEDs.

And we should also be doing proper disposal of LEDs once they die because they’re essentially little computers.

… Ok, rant over.

Love these. They taste like lollies.

Yeh people can get guns but kids would have a really, really hard time getting access to one. Knives, easy, but guns? No.

Good grief. Who cares about porn?

Why not address government lobbying, for starters? Or how about the housing crisis/tax incentives that encourage wealth hoarding?

Good grief. Bloody AUKUS. Curse Scomo for signing us up to that rubbish.

When the world police run out of resources, they’re unable to police the world anymore and others who have smartly withheld resources will move in on coveted targets.

That’s true but if it results in danger or harm to the child, then the parents forfeit that right.