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New comment by chungusamongus in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

chungusamongus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:55:04 +0000

IIRC the courts ruled that because it would be implausibe for a person to use google books previews to read an entire work (you'd have to make a whole bunch of separate accounts to do so), it could not plausibly impact the market for that work.

New comment by chungusamongus in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"

chungusamongus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:59:21 +0000

It's not big news if you know anything about Europe in relation to IP law. No one expected a different result.

New comment by chungusamongus in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"

chungusamongus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:58:24 +0000

Did anyone expect it to go the other way? Europe is more hardcore about copyright than the US, and that's saying something. Germany is practically...well I was going to say they're nazis about it but perhaps that's in poor taste.

New comment by chungusamongus in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"

chungusamongus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:48:16 +0000

Lmao. No. Content that is wholesale generated by AI is also not subject to copyright in the US. It relies on the honor system and you can always modify the material juuuust enough that you can claim the copyright. In practical terms, this changes nothing.

New comment by chungusamongus in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"

chungusamongus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:44:43 +0000

The same is true in the US. This is a nothing burger.

New comment by chungusamongus in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

chungusamongus — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:57:37 +0000

Sounds like an elaborate rationale to be lazy.

New comment by chungusamongus in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

chungusamongus — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:30:21 +0000

Well, youre trading quality for accessibility. For some, that's acceptable. To me, the number of steam games that emulate that aesthetic is so massive that its become oversaturated in my view. And in fairness, there was a major quality dip when 3d graphics started becoming viable. A lot of n64 games just look like shit to me. conversely a lot of those genesis games still look amazing, esp when playing them as intended.

New comment by chungusamongus in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

chungusamongus — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:50:53 +0000

Nintendo is notoriously litigious.

New comment by chungusamongus in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

chungusamongus — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:02:50 +0000

I consider all homebrew stuff very cool but the number of games emulating PS1 / N64 aesthetics is so massively oversaturated at this point that I'm kind of burned out on it.

But in general, the thing that really impresses me is what people come up with working within these various constraints. Less is more.

Megadrive / genesis homebrew is where it's at for me. But tbh I am honestly kind of clueless when it comes to this stuff. Still trying to get parallax scrolling and foreground occlusion figured out for my "game."

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:25:52 +0000

But You've spent so much more time complaining and rationalizing your biases than it would take to simply read the story.

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:53:39 +0000

Really? It just seems aggressively stupid.

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:52:40 +0000

It is circular. The conclusion of your argument is included in the premises. Textbook begging the question, which is circular reasoning.

"Slop" existed before AI. Just because LLMs were involved in the writing of a text does not make it inherently "slop." You're just lazy.

Everyday is a gift, and yet you waste it getting weirdly defensive about your choices? Someone who is secure about this sort of thing doesn't feel the need to explain themselves.

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:17:50 +0000

That's not what I said. Do you have trouble reading? Are you subliterate or just lazy?

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:53:33 +0000

Please explain where I went wrong. Please explain why the onus is on the person presenting this story to account for all of the bad uses of AI, such that we should simply dismiss the story outright. This is pure idiocy.

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:12:59 +0000

This took a few minutes for me to read. If that's what you consider high effort, that's a bigger problem. Ofc, reading comprehension is fairly poor these days but that was a trend before AI. Maybe you're just subliterate. And no, effort is not relevant. If you think it is, that's some Protestant work ethic nonsense.

New comment by chungusamongus in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"

chungusamongus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:08:52 +0000

Yes, it is. Working on a sega genesis homebrew game. I focus on visuals, dialogue, narrative logic, music, etc., and GPT worries about the rest. It works for me. I couldn't care less if works for others. I'm working on the part I enjoy.

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:06:43 +0000

You have done nothing to demonstrate how that's even relevant here. The person who posted this is not "bad" simply because they have used an LLM.

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:07:36 +0000

>The part that I personally find difficult is that I can’t easily gauge the amount of human effort put in.

The amount of effort is not relevant. If I spend all day trying the jump my car battery in 100 degree weather, only to find that the starter is the problem, all that effort was wasted. I should've just tested the battery. It is not inherently virtuous to work hard. Work smart, not hard.

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:59:37 +0000

Then just state the conflict of interest instead of resorting to insults. The problem with your way of thinking is, sometimes your opponent is detestable, but that doesn't make them wrong. Kneejerk dismissal of an argument on the basis of character can be self defeating. You do not want to reflexively dismiss a point that is potentially salient just because the person making it is potentially "bad."

New comment by chungusamongus in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

chungusamongus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:41:35 +0000

That's circular reasoning