Lewyn
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If it’s true that NVIDIA chips were used to train Deepseek, then Jensen Huang was a hero and it’s even more of a tragedy that he was forced out. As a culture we can survive an increase in cyberattacks, we can use AI to harden against them. The far worse outcome is Dario getting his way and making everyone serfs dependent on his good graces to contribute to the modern economy.
Fortunately when it comes to games these days, my ought practically already is. There are maybe three or four AAA studios left that are not slop mills and still put out good games. Indie and AA are unironicaly much better in quality now despite the resource gap. Why that is is out of the scope of this comment. The main thing they still have over smaller studios is marketing budget, name recognition, and (fairly relevant as you pointed out) player count.
Also this is a weird 50 Stalins criticism to claim that actually the piracy is helping the studios.
You are denying them a sale, yes, but if your reason for doing so is ideological — not wanting to support a hostile message — I think it’s important to recognize that you are still paying your enemies. By playing or watching, you are giving your time and downloading their ideas into your head.
You’ll be able to take part in water cooler conversations about their product, get the references, and contribute to making it that much more popular, more culturally relevant. Most people pushing for heavy ideology in your media don’t care about the companies’ bottom line, but they care a lot about putting their beliefs in the wider culture.
I should clarify I’m not talking about piracy for reasons of economics or convenience here. This is more meant to address the partisan justification for pirating from one’s political enemies - at the end of the day, you are still consooming their content.
It seems unlikely that an ai great at finding vulnerabilities for hackers would not be equally great at finding the vulnerabilities for cybersecurity teams, and they have the advantage of having root access. There will be heavy growing pains as we adapt to a new paradigm of hacking (rip AO3), but the advantage should go to the defender, or at least defenders with large teams and budgets.
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