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New comment by lancesells in "AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism"

lancesells — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:08:13 +0000

My guess is you can trace a lot of those publications to a handful of conglomerates that are there for ROI and nothing else.

New comment by lancesells in "Sora is here"

lancesells — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:29:40 +0000

It's also directed by one of the best directors in history.

New comment by lancesells in "Sora is here"

lancesells — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:27:17 +0000

> Most people have terrible eyes for distinguishing content.

But also in the case of the fluffy train there's nothing to compare it against. The reason CGI humans look the most fake is because we're trained from birth to read a human face. Someone that looks at trains on a regular basis will probably discern this as being fake quicker than most.

New comment by lancesells in "Sora is here"

lancesells — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:18:11 +0000

I'm wondering that as well but I also wonder if it's a bit like CGI where it's somewhat hit a limit on realness. I'm not saying CGI doesn't get better but is a 2024 Gollum that much more realistic than 2004 Gollum? Maybe I'm wrong but I wonder if that plastic feel to AI lessens but still sticks around.

New comment by lancesells in "Bitcoin miner purchases 112-megawatt North Texas wind farm"

lancesells — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 22:56:25 +0000

It's funny how humans and companies have mined natural resources for theoretical progress, but we've come to a point that natural resources are being used to mine a fake resource that really serves zero purpose. What an absurd direction technology has gone.

New comment by lancesells in "UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)"

lancesells — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:43:41 +0000

Have you seen Youtube or Reddit comments on anything? They don't reflect real-life. Youtube is probably the worst, most trollish comments of the "normal" internet and Reddit is a sort of progressive propaganda machine that will also call for the death penalty on a teenager that did something stupid (which lots of teenagers do) or a karen that was an asshole in a restaurant and isn't happy with her life.

I haven't visited twitter in ten years or more so can't comment on that.

New comment by lancesells in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

lancesells — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:10:47 +0000

I don't have an answer to this, but why if the algorithm can manipulate people, regardless of who directed it, why are we ok with the algorithmic content of all the platforms? I'm not much of a social media user but a lot of the argument here is the algorithm can feed propoganda that people will succumb to.

Why is it ok then for Youtube to feed violence and awful behavior to people (probably to lots of kids) in the US if it's able to influence people? Is the thought that Meta and Google (both without ethics or morals) are just trying to get us to buy shit we don't need, but Tiktok is trying to get us to agree (or not agree) with their stance on x?

New comment by lancesells in "I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly"

lancesells — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:06:45 +0000

I would imagine 95% of cookies are not selling data but giving your data away in exchange for the other services.

1. Because they are using GA4 feeding info to Google.

2. Because they have some advertising pixel / api set up feeding info to Meta.

I would guess sites like Hubspot, Salesforce, or Github might actually be selling data.

New comment by lancesells in "Lessons I learned working at an art gallery"

lancesells — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:46:54 +0000

Net worth $1.6B. So eating a $6M banana is a PR stunt.

Edit: Also doesn't mean it can't be resold as that banana gets replaced x number of days.

New comment by lancesells in "Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic statement"

lancesells — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:36:52 +0000

I honestly like my photos more from my iPhone 3 than my current iPhone SE. The photos were blurry, noisy, and crunchy while my current photos are just flat and without character. It's not nostalgia for me, it's the photos looking too good and a bit plastic.

New comment by lancesells in "Vintage digicams are an artistic statement"

lancesells — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:27:12 +0000

This is brilliant

New comment by lancesells in "Lessons I learned working at an art gallery"

lancesells — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:48:42 +0000

It's more about people with a lot of money hoping to sell it for a greater return, while maybe also having shit taste in art. In five years it'll be at an auction and sell to some other person with too much money in hopes of making a profit on it later on.

New comment by lancesells in "World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image"

lancesells — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:31:55 +0000

> Imagine creating a game by describing scenes, like the ones in the article, with a good morphing technology between scenes, so that the transitions between them are like auto-generated scenes which are just as playable.

Why do you think this game would be good? I'm not a game maker but the visual layer is not the reason people like or enjoy a game (ex: nintendo). There are teams of professionals making games today that range from awful to great. I get that there are indie games made by a single person that will benefit from generated graphics, but asset creation seems to be a really small part of it.

New comment by lancesells in "Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction"

lancesells — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:49:56 +0000

I have no idea but look at it from the perspective of the US Department of Defense. Also, companies like Google make ~$8B in profit every three months for selling ads. Is it really that crazy they awarded this amount of money to try and have US-made chips?

I'm not advocating for war, weapons, defense budgets, etc., but this doesn't seem like a bad thing if it's providing jobs and chip alternatives for the US and the world. It seems like Taiwan is going to cease being independent at some point.

New comment by lancesells in "Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction"

lancesells — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:17:14 +0000

Chips are the new oil. They run everything and without them you would be outdroned in the case of a war.

New comment by lancesells in "China's EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff"

lancesells — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:45:55 +0000

Not entirely. I would buy one if there was one I liked that was in the price range I want to spend. It would be practical as in I don't want to pay $25k more than an ICE car for the same quality of vehicle. Neither cultural or political in my case.

New comment by lancesells in "The deterioration of Google"

lancesells — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:40:49 +0000

They bought that though.

New comment by lancesells in "China's EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff"

lancesells — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:34:50 +0000

It seems a bit cultural, a bit practical, and maybe a bit political? Tesla is an American company and seems like it was selling cars. There's no one stopping them so I'm not sure the oil industry is entirely to blame.

New comment by lancesells in "Cybertruck's Many Recalls"

lancesells — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:42:28 +0000

People who pay for a working game to play probably care. I'm not a gamer but I occassionally will try to pop something in every six months or so. Two hours later after I have to sign in from a controller, update the OS, then update the game I'm over it. I can't say that's all from shitty software development but some of it probably is.

New comment by lancesells in "New Comic Book: La BD de L'Avent, Le Lombard Publishing"

lancesells — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:35:58 +0000

I don't know anything about this comic, but word balloons going over part of a face is not a good sign for a quality book.