EldritchFeminity

In short, AI is useful when it's improving workflow efficiency and not much else beyond that. People just unfortunately see it as a replacement for the worker entirely.

If you wanna get loose with your definition of "AI," you can go all the way back to the MS Paint magic wand tool for art. It's simply an algorithm for identifying pixels within a certain color tolerance of each other.

The issue has never been the tool itself, just the way that it's made and/or how companies intend to use it.

Companies want to replace their entire software division, senior engineers included, with ChatGPT or equivalent because it's cheaper, and they don't value the skill of their employees at all. They don't care how often it's wrong, or how much more work the people that they didn't replace have to do to fix what the AI breaks, so long as it's "good enough."

It's the same in art. By the time somebody is working as an artist, they're essentially at a senior software engineer level of technical knowledge and experience. But society doesn't value that skill at all, and has tried to replace it with what is essentially a coding tool trained on code sourced from pirated software and sold on the cheap. A new market of cheap knockoffs on demand.

There's a great story I heard from somebody who works at a movie studio where they tried hiring AI prompters for their art department. At first, things were great. The senior artist could ask the team for concept art of a forest, and the prompters would come back the next day with 15 different pictures of forests while your regular artists might have that many at the end of the week. However, if you said, "I like this one, but give me some versions without the people in them," they'd come back the next day with 15 new pictures of forests, but not the original without the people. They simply could not iterate, only generate new images. They didn't have any of the technical knowledge required to do the job because they depended completely on the AI to do it for them. Needless to say, the studio has put a ban on hiring AI prompters.

• This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.

Didn't Twitter go down multiple times for similar periods of time not long after Musk fired everybody? Or am I just hallucinating wishful thinking.

Plug that random USB stick you found on the sidewalk directly into the server and open up Link_ParkFullAlbum-LimeWire.exe

I don't know the 5 9s reference, but the two 8s is 88, a Nazi dog whistle for Heil Hitler, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

NVIDIA ass DLSS, unfortunately.

Rereading my comment, I think I left out the double negative, so you were right to be confused.

If I had to try and diagnose the issue, I think it comes down to the fact that I have an early 2060, which means not just an old card, but an old card with less VRAM. Consistently, I find that DLSS drops textures down to the lowest possible setting or constantly cycles between texture resolutions every few seconds when I can get a consistent 60 fps on medium settings in most games at native 1080p. It may net me a few extra fps, but the hit to quality simply isn't worth it if I can't make out what's what with the texture popping.

Another possible culprit would be shader caching since games are more and more demanding that you use an SSD to stream directly from the hardrive, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to get that deep into it.

Add DLSS to the list. I've never had an experience where DLSS didn't make my game run better. It always makes the textures worse and the game run worse than just setting it to native resolution and a specific texture quality.

Okay, Karen.

Tell me you've never worked a shitty "essential employee" job without telling me you've never had the kind of megalomaniac managers that these jobs attract.

There was somebody crazy enough to make an entire game in Blender, I don't doubt that somebody has at least tried to make a soundtrack in Blender.

I refer to this as the Wind Waker effect.

Before Wind Waker was announced, Nintendo did a reel showing off the power of the GameCube that included a "realistic" (for the time) fight scene between Link and Ganondorf. So when they announced a new Zelda game, people were hyped for a gritty realistic Zelda, and when the first trailers appeared, people hated it.

For years after its release, Wind Waker's art style was dragged on by people, but today, it's remembered as one of the most iconic Zelda games from that time period and a major influence on the aesthetic of many Zelda games after it.

Today, its art style looks just as good as it did when the game first launched, while most other games from that time period - especially those that went for high fidelity and realistic graphics - look outdated.

A good art style is timeless and will always age better than trying to push the envelope on graphical fidelity or realism.

I actually based my comment on some stories that I've heard from vets dealing with the office of veterans' affairs (I think that's what it's called), specifically an artist I followed on Tumblr years ago who had to have surgery on his hand and physical therapy related to an injury he got in the military and got turned down because the injury had become a chronic issue after he got out and therefore "wasn't service related" despite it being directly caused by an injury he received while in the military. Kept him from being able to draw and really solidified my opinion on how the government takes care of its people. That, and the percentage of homeless people who are veterans/the percentage of veterans who end up homeless.

Except she's a woman, so very likely to be sexually assaulted in the military (and that's if she even gets in, DEI and all that), and vets get shafted as well. Her losing a leg to an IED will be ruled "not service related," and she will be denied any funds related to care or issues resulting from said injury after she leaves the military.