not just chatgpt.
Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.
All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.
The only option is to log off and find an alternative.
As a QA, I raised the very real risk that should tensions with America escalate, they could effectively cut us off and our business would be kaputt.
What happens if AWS goes down? We use Google. What happens if both go down (or cut us off)? We're fucked.
The answer to me raising the risk was a, "Haha, yeah, true, we'd be in big trouble..." but there's no actual appetite to do anything about it. We're so tied up in AWS that I can't imagine there ever will be.
I used to be a League of Legends only guy. I also played Fifa on the side. Basically: competitive online games only.
The problem is they have a heavily addictive gameplay loop, and it takes seconds to get into a game. Win a game? Dopamine is high and you wanna keep chasing it. Lose a game? Keep playing until you get that high.
I managed to get away from it, and at the moment I'm focusing on 'hard' single player games. Hades, Elden Ring, Megabonk (lol), that kind of thing and I am having an absolute blast. I'm realising that 'hard' gaming is my preference, whether online or offline.
I think it's completely normal to have a preference when it comes to gaming. Playing a completely different genre is more of a risk, when you know you prefer e.g., rogue likes, why would you stray from them?
thing you just can't buy elsewhere anymore
Yes and no. For example I had to buy double-sided tape and went into four different stores in different areas of my city and only found it in the fourth store after researching.
I checked on Amazon after the fact, and could have had it delivered to my door same-day lol.
I don't believe there's anything you can only buy on Amazon... but it IS so bloody convenient.
I am looking at using Eufy, no subscription. Unsure of potential of it joining the darkside.
Edit: China-owned, so it's a pick-your-poison kind of deal.
There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, 'this is impossible' but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.
Bare in mind as well that 'AI' has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of 'AI' simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.
I don't know. It's not really up to me to figure that out, either. Companies should self-report on their AI usage.
That's fine, but they did use AI in development, so whether or not they removed the assets they should not be included in this award category.
I think you are overthinking this mate.
2 shapes are the same colour
2 shapes are filled
2 shapes have four sides
the point of this is that there are multiple distinct properties not found in any member of the remainder set
I don't think there is any problem with using AI art as a placeholder until the real art is ready.
I also don't think there is any problem with being disqualified from a competition that says "No AI Art" for doing so.
Yep, should go without saying! I didn't list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.