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What I've purchased is mine to keep. The Black Geyser developers have launched a Kickstarter campaign for another RTwP RPG in the setting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grapeocean/avaria-iron-rule The game is not related to Avaria: Chains of Lust.

Ruh-roh....somethingsomething Nazis?

so when will fascist of Italy start some rearmament nonsense too

But that's the problem, LLM's have no "general familiarity" with the field. They also don't have hallucinations. They can't think, they are not reasoning programs, they don't 'know' anything. It has a large data set that an complex program uses to try to determine what the most likely response is to what you are asking and provide it. I wouldn't trust it to do anything; the 'hallucinations' (which is part of the LLM industries attempts to sell their product as a thinking machine rather than admit that this is not 'true AI' as most laypeople would think an AI should be) is just its predictive model being wildly off base (or using incorrect answers scraped from the depths of Reddit) and outputting incorrect statements which, if taken as logical human style thinking, can have, and has had, disastrous outcomes.

This is by far the biggest problem and irritation with the abuse of AI Someone, who is not even a citizen of a particular country, uses AI to create a " real person " who aligns with a set of particular ideological or political views and raises money from people who believe it People can laugh at MAGA\Conservatives being duped but many people would fall for this if this type of AI aligned with there views We already have people who peddle and post fake news on a daily basis as " real and credible " For example it would be so easy to create an anti-American, pro-Russia\Putin hot US women who just repeats well known anti-Western\US tropes and generalizations and I can guarantee you the majority of Vatniks would be clapping like seals and saying " wow, she is so clever and based " Of course they wont donate money to her because of the financial reality but they would still believe its true and support it. Confirmation bias should never be a prudent objective to focus on with AI when it comes to fund raising Its not funny to see AI being abused like this, its very worrying because it could happen to anyone if you not careful Here is the detailed story about " Emily Hart". I have posted the main part below https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/emily-hart-top-maga-influencer-turned-out-to-be-ai-was-created-by-indian-student-11391474 "A popular MAGA influencer, who built a strong following among conservative users in the US for posting pro-Trump content, has turned out to be an AI-generated persona. A 22-year-old man in India created the account to make money off unsuspecting men online, according to a report in WIRED. Sam, who requested a pseudonym to avoid jeopardising his medical career, used generative AI tools to design everything - from the woman's face and body to her captions. The influencer, widely known online as "Emily Hart", looked like a typical blonde woman who supported US President Donald Trump and often posted about Christianity. Sam, an aspiring orthopedic surgeon, showed Hart supporting the US, posing in bikinis, doing activities like ice fishing, drinking beer, and even handling guns. The fake profile claimed she was a nurse and looked like Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence"

Just wrapping up the current status of the world...

I would like to start with that the following are personal opinions, observations, and anecdotes and not a scientific study (alas, no data and not enough inclination for that). I can see the point in regard to the energy consumption and I also find it quite irritating that our social group, Gamers™, seek and encourage the higher use of energy on something as frivolous as graphical fluff (may UE5 be sunsetted). Regarding the necessity, it is very relative. I do not have mobility impairments and can use a broom instead of a vacuum cleaner (I believe the animal companion prefers less noise), and someone whose job and source of income is cleaning would go for the more "human energy"-efficient option. In the case of LLMs, a use case I've seen is job search, a very generic activity with a large amount of text on it. One of the people I know tried to use the free (government-funded) employment assistance services. The meatbags there were nigh useless and apparently could not parse the person's educational background and previous employment, while the positions suggested could have been just randomly pulled from a pool. On the other hand, the chatbot was able to provide the job titles for the desired career direction, what to watch out for in the adverts, how to format the CV, and how to pace the search, so it could be done alongside the ongoing employment without burning out. The LLM also was available at any time and provided responses and feedback promptly. Some people might prefer the LLMs as the pair programmer or a study partner for the same reasons - availability, flexibility, and general familiarity with the relevant field. Granted, they are/should be aware of the possibility of hallucinations and the necessity to check sources. Regarding taxation, at the moment, I would like to see how it is going to go. It is possible to tax the corporations (unlikely may it be) and the "agentic" AI is not able to do most jobs fully (even 2D artists'). And institutional knowledge is a thing that can easily get lost in the layoffs. So, I agree that the lack of employment due to the CEOs' lack of foresight and professional skills is a threat to the livelihoods of their employees and can negatively affect the companies and the end-users in the long run. The most recent case I am aware of is PinkNews going for "reporter-free newsroom" (the CEO is a dumb ****, so expected as much). So, the point being, there are areas where humans perform worse than the genAI, the necessity is relative, and the human CEOs not being concerned with the long-term prospects of their companies or the societal outcome of their decisions is an issue. The not mentioned issue with the LLMs and image generation being widely available is that malicious actors can use them as well, whether it is spear-phishing, various photo editing, or hate speech at scale. At what point an undesirable side effect becomes an inherent feature I cannot tell.

Unfortunately, they need to be available on network/cable for me to watch. That's why I thought of giving Marshals a go, but then I saw some reviews which say essentially the same things you all are saying. 😞

Just backed it.

On the last point, I'm not sure you have to accept moral debt because of energy use. That's kinda like saying don't vacuum, use a broom or don't travel by air without doing a carbon offset. It's logically correct, sure, it's just... That's too much to worry about for one individual, these are problems facing society that have to be engaged systemically.

For once, it's not us starting a new world war, though. How exciting!

occupied war criminal vassal trying so hard to prove themself belong on the big boy table with their war criminal overlord would be funny and sad if the inevitable reaction are not so dangerous