For people who pirate HBO service products, no changes, your lifetime subscription to piracy is still valid.

Damn right it is.

Did you not see Mr. Robot?

It’s been a while since I played with it, but the Dynamic Prompts extension has some options for creating random prompts and combinations. It’s neat to have it run through a hundred images to see what it creates, find the interesting ones, and then focus on that prompt for some more refined images. Or upscale and inpaint/outpaint the ones you want.

Well, the great thing about Stable Diffusion is that you can inpaint things to fix small issues like that.

What people don’t get about AI art, is that the mistakes it makes are because somebody spent five minutes making an image and didn’t bother with the extra few hours of polish.

The more they fire employees, the more likely those employees are critical to cybersecurity and IT.

I’m sure that’s a feature and not a bug, so that they can cripple government resources. But, it’s a double-edged sword, as activists can hack in the same way.

Have a bunch of fun with Stable Diffusion and whatever models you feel like downloading on CivitAI.

Louis Rossmann shouts this from the YouTube rooftops all the time. Why not Randall?

The good news is that you aren’t missing much because Vox videos and articles are a mile wide, and an inch deep.

> write successful game

> get laid off

There are several “good” LLMs trained on open datasets like FineWeb, LAION, DataComp, etc.

Then use those as training data. You’re too caught up on this exacting definition of open source that you’ll completely ignore the benefits of what this model could provide.

an LLM could decide to, for example, summarize and compress some context full of trade secrets, then proceed to “search” for it, sending it to wherever it has access to.

That’s not how LLMs work, and you know it. A model of weights is not a lossless compression algorithm.

Also, if you’re giving an LLM free reign to all of your session tokens and security passwords, that’s on you.

Wow, it’s like you didn’t even read my post.

You’re purposely being obtuse, and not arguing in good faith. The source code is right there, in the other repos owned by the deepseek-ai user.

EA just laid off a bunch of BioWare employees.

Why waste money on employees for a new Dragon Age game, when you can just repackage the old shit?

Nobody releases training data. It’s too large and varied. The best I’ve seen was the LAION-2B set that Stable Diffusion used, and that’s still just a big collection of links. Even that isn’t going to fit on a GitHub repo.

Besides, improving the model means using the model as a base and implementing new training data. Specialize, specialize, specialize.

This literally took one click: https://github.com/deepseek-ai

Stop spreading FUD.

Really easy to say, but, believe it or not, during a time where the tech industry is actively shedding 10s of thousands of jobs, looking at your resume doesn’t actually do anything for you.

Are you just proving his point by saying that the whole industry is laying people off, instead of it being specifically a gaming industry problem?

Remember Tango Gameworks? The studio that everyone liked, and didn’t have any flops? That was completely laid off?

He pointed that out as an exception. But, it’s been mostly the AAA studios that produced massive, massive high-budget flops, and then they laid off a bunch of their staff.

But it’s not developers doing that, it’s publishers and executives. No one writing code is like, “I’ve decided to make live-service schlock”. But they’re the ones losing their jobs, not the dorks who did decide that.

No, but when developers and the rest of the teams see that it’s “live-service schlock”, they should start looking at their resumes, instead of thinking “well, my job is safe because it’s a large corporation”.

Why would anybody working on Concord think that it’s a good game with a good concept that is going to succeed? Or Kill the Justice League? Or Multiverse? You think all of those microtransactions and attempts at catching some unoriginal idea are going to be well-received?

Just look at it for what it is, and realize it’s going to fail. And then plan accordingly.

He then turns this into some kind of attack on game journalists, who have been rightfully calling out the game industry layoffs

No, look at what they did before they talked about the layoffs. Sure, calling out the layoffs is justified and it’s worth reporting.

What’s not worth reporting is what Twitter is saying about any of this, and then going on some soapbox trying to counter it. Thus, promoting this idea that the general public gives a shit about whatever fight this is, when in reality, they don’t even know it exists. He’s literally reading off one of this articles, that goes off on a tangent that a few people on Twitter said something about games being “too woke” and tries to counter that.

Fuck Twitter. Stop reporting on Twitter. It’s a shit platform that is a tiny, tiny microverse of actual people doing actual things that don’t see any of that. Obviously, nobody looked at a game and thought “oh, well, that’s too woke, so I’m not going to buy it”. They didn’t buy it because it was a shit game with shitty microtransactions.

And if you check the comments, his fans definitely heard the whistle too.

I checked the comments. I read the comments on most YouTube videos. I saw nothing of the sort. Most of them are praising him for what he’s saying.

Ideological soapboxes are very real things that games “journalists” push on a daily basis. It’s manufactured bullshit that gets echoed only because they report on whatever some dude on Twitter said. I don’t know why you would mistake that as some dog whistle.

“As a customer I’m going to be honest, I just don’t care or feel anything for any of these internal struggles that these companies go through.” (7:10 in the video)

Right, instead of talking about the discussion as a whole, let’s take some out-of-context quote he said in the video and use that as evidence that he doesn’t care about the industry.

You didn’t even quote the entire sentence: “…especially when it’s mismanagement to blame.” I guess that bit didn’t fit your narrative?

If Lemmy had YouTube embedding, like a certain other platform it’s trying to emulate, this wouldn’t be a problem.

As it stands, it can’t even extract the thumbnail properly. (I have to do that myself.)

readable only by the original owner

Right now it’s not. All encryption gets its back broken by security flaws and brute force mathematics.