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phailyoor
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phailyoor
23d ago
You can prompt models to actually have decent writing style with enough effort
People keep saying this but never share the prompts. It's not possible.
phailyoor
23d ago
I predict with strong confidence that within the next year, Steam will see an order of magnitude increase in the number of games released.
This is going to shift the pendulum back towards "trusted" "publishers" and stuff, where there is some sort of quality gate. Most of this flood of games is going to be games that nobody wants to play.
phailyoor
23d ago
Nothing needs to be done to convince gamers, all the devs are using ai here and there in the background and nobody needs to know.
releasing a new acclaimed RPG and then saying that humans haven't touched code, art or narrative, just playtested and gave feedback.
All that matters is actually making a game that's good. This is a surprisingly hard feat for current AI.
phailyoor
23d ago
If you spent thousands of hours writing a novel and are going to pay for an actual printing run, the least you can do is spend $200 for someone on fiverr or vgen or whatever to make a book cover.
Though I do suspect that alot of people who need art would just rather talk to a sycophantic robot than an annoying fleshy artist, and have the instant gratification of getting the results in 1 minute.
phailyoor
24d ago
More here with more background on the timeline and people involved.
AI slop warning. I wouldn't trust anything on that site it's just a garbage factory.
phailyoor
24d ago
Have you even heard of the recent reveals of frontier models spontaneously going to havking and cheating when asked to honestly complete an impossible task?
phailyoor
24d ago
Just tried it and it's quite underwhelming. All of the artifacting from gpt-image-2 is still there making it unusable for any real usage
phailyoor
27d ago
There are countless cases of walking garbage getting acquitted for the worst crimes possible. This one I remember was notable but there are tons more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eina_Kwon
phailyoor
1mo ago
I didn't read the entire thing but the broad strokes of things seems pretty inscrutable to me. We have this empire that's doomed to fail and this prophecy of preventing a milennia of dark ages or whatever. Then we just go off to the corner of the galaxy, forget about the empire, and have a run of the mill space opera with a squabble with some other factions in that corner. Is there any payoff of the empire collapsing or any of that?
phailyoor
1mo ago
They're simply socially liberal while economically conservative. Obviously plastering trannys all over a game is just common decency, but paid leave and worker protections is communism. This is a totally consistent position from woke corporate and even many mainsteam dems.
Anyways being a father is right coded and has zero clout on the victim hierarchy.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Iran was going to build nukes under the Obama deal. This one feels pretty unknowable, given Trump quitting the deal in his first term made it much less likely to succeed.
Iirc the Obama agreement allowed Iran to make as much uranium as they wanted by 2030
phailyoor
1mo ago
something not matched by the market and oil futures or the prediction markets (13% chance by October, I'm giving you a buffer of two months here when you're claiming it's already won now), that is not proof of any long term sustainable change.
I think there's a significant chance that even if the fully reopens with zero interference or restrictions, that traffic never returns to what it was before. That's not necessarily a loss but just a realignment in the way of doing things.
It’s the same route according to a Bloomberg journalist reporting on Gharibabadi’s interview, and the same graphic was used in Bloomberg reporting as of two days ago, a report written by the same journalist
Well then that journalist is stretching the truth. There is no legitimate evidence that the temporary route under negotiation between Oman and Iran is the same route that was claimed by Iran in June. But simply slapping the same map on top of every article is a neat lazy way to spice it up without being techncially false, if you don't make claims that image relates to the article content.
It's a super common practice for joirnalists to put stock photos or other assets not directly of the event being reported on, just to provide some filler and vibe. Just open any paper and look carefully at the captions.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/asia/taiwan-china-ships-record-intl-hnk
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/politics/trump-venezuela-oil-deal
Is that even true? Has anyone compared the number of false statements by our President vs by official Iranian channels?
Trump lying doesn't make Iran's lies less of lies. But I do honestly believe the Iranians and Pakis were saying different stuff behind closed doors than publicly, so the number of pants on fire lies from Trump is actually quite low. Most of his lies I would categorize as "mostly false"
phailyoor
1mo ago
Until that carrier group can leave with little risk of any knock-on effects, the war hasn't been won.
The war hasn't been won but this is garbage logic. Having carrier groups in position is a complete nothingburger. Conducting blockade and air patrol is a bit more effort but still not a lot.
It's a far cry from Vietnam which was sending home body bags every day.
phailyoor
1mo ago
It could be copium but I would buy that Iran is working as 5d chess to distract the population from negative newsbites about immigration enforcement. Few people are talking about ice on college campuses or rioting outside federal facilities. Instead normies have turned to armchair experts in drone warfare and oil markets
Iran and Oman recently agreed in principle on a route in which ships pass through Iranian waters, only barely passing through Omani waters.
False. The image you posted shows routes published months ago and there is zero evidence that those routes are related current negotiations.
The Iran-Oman agreement bans US warships.
According to Iranian authorities, known for pants on fire lies on countless occasions.
There continues to be ships struck in the strait.
I would like to point out that your link has zero connection with your claim. sorry I got my links mixed up
phailyoor
1mo ago
It's total cope to say that things are going well for the US, though it seems to be trending into a somewhat better position for the US. Unfortunately in reality the fog of war is quite thick. Administration aligned sources are maximally spinning the facts they can to make things look better, and everything Trump says is a massive hyperbole. Meanwhile the majority of Iranian statements are just pants on fire lies, going as far as to deny that it was them blowing up ships. Due to the rules and Iran's silly denials, nobody wants to play polymarket. If it weren't for free copernicus satellite footage, the osint community would basically be totally blind to the entire state of affairs.
Honestly this whole situation has turned me into a huge Iran hawk, but unfortunately Trump is too pussy to finish the job. Despite having substantial strike capabilities, the fact that Iran is only willing to make retaliatory attacks seems to signal that they were on the ropes. That should have been the moment to cross the rubicon and annihilate their supply chains and oil facilities. Now we have a blockade that might eventually give the same results but orders of magnitude slower.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Yeah a lot of in irl ads become iconic, for example the running man billboard in japan or just like times square. Though the majority of roadside billboards are just an eyesore.
so they're roughly the equivalent of a "WALMART" or "DICK'S SPORTING GOODS" stamped on the gate, and learning this made me like these gates even more.
I remember seeing a picture of some clueless tourist posing in front of toori gates in Japan and they were all sponsored by brothels and other unsavory businesses.
I don't get why it's a big deal. It's a play on the horror movie trope where people are drawn to evil objects that possess them and stuff. I guess if he was pushing a man nobody would care, reddit will be reddit.
But you actually got the characters mixed up. The owner of the driver pushes the woman away, telling her not to touch it. Then another different man tries to touch the driver, the owner tries to stop him as well but is unable to, and it's shown that the second man is possessed by the item. It's kind of a humorous reversal, the first man is made to just be an overprotective asshole at the beginning, but then it's revealed that touching the driver is dangerous, and he was partly doing it to protect her from its effects.
The only continuity gap is how the owner manages to retain his sanity while the driver causes issues for everyone else who touches it.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Yet the image is still chock full of falsehoods. I wonder why you never addressed that point?
Speaking of their perception, this is how Trump's terms look up there.
This is a pile of steaming garbage ai slop (made by ChatGPT specifically, it's so blindingly obvious) tweeted by a foreigner who also has no connection to Canada or the USA.
Needless to say I shouldn't have to waste any effort debunking this because it's just a heap of garbage.
Edit: If you want even more confirmation, the URL at the bottom of the image is fake. Fabricated. Made up. Lies. Deception. Falsehood.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Any predictions on the trade war outcomes? I'm always kind of unpleasantly surprised when I see random stuff around that's made in Canada, but by the numbers the amount of canadian stuff on us store shelves is small. Meanwhile American exports to Canada seem like a small fraction of the overall economy.
I guess as long as Canada keeps selling oil, the overall effect of the trade war may just be a nothingburger. Might push up the price of goods marginally but not in any huge way.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Is pki the next part of the global internet censorship regime?
In a previous post, we discussed the takedown of a foreign website that violated texas laws. I argued that domain takedowns are unlikely to be used for global censorship. But these days https certificates are becoming nearly obligatory, and the system around them is much more haphazard.
As a sideshow on the iran situation, the pgsa dot ir website is trying to stay up in the face of the sanctions. The website originally had a letsencrypt certificate, but obviously the US was able to get that yanked. After a week, they managed to get their hands on a chinese certificate. But surprisingly, only a few days later, the certificate was revoked, making the https site unviewable on certain browsers. I'm not certain exactly why the chinese issuer revoked it, but it could likely be due to pressure from above.
Unlike the internet, Google, Apple, and Mozilla pretty much control almost every browser in the world. And for an issuer it seems that there are no rules when it comes to having your certificates accepted on those browsers, simply beg and kiss ass to each of them until they decide to let you in the club. This means that anywhere, having an https website happens at the whim of these 3 American companies, and each one pretty much has a veto over the process. It's no wonder that they all go to lengths to put up big warnings and gimp functionality on http websites.
Of course it remains to be seen whether or not this lever of censorship will be used in the future and for what purposes. Can an SF judge order Mozilla to start rejecting certain certificates? Not sure. Right now there's also the escape hatch of simply using http, but browser makers will continue to push more and more invasive warnings about it.
90% of everything is crap. But 99.9% of ai slop is crap. Maybe you want to sort through it to find tbe gems but I'm not interested.
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