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That mindset is why most software was already slop before AI. Users know when your team has turned into salespeople. And now that AI could enable you to do better in the same timeframe the response with this mindset is of course to care even less.
> How do you save images in plain text
Base64, like countless websites. Or just accept that you don't have to act like a lawyer with internet comments and simply save them as image files.
Nowadays you can open the dev tools before loading the site and then select or copy whatever you like in it.
But yeah some websites were really special. I remember one made by some Microsoft fan which was completely unusable outside Internet Explorer. It was like a static picture in any other browser, clicking links & buttons just didn't do anything.
Same, another benefit is that now and then I can scroll through my YT archive and rediscover stuff I'm almost guaranteed to enjoy.
Maybe it's just me but I find the buttons below the spacebar far more convenient to use together with the touchpad.
In the end LLMs were also trained on all the incorrect and suboptimal solutions and examples.
This feels like a photographer telling a painter that they're at a massive disadvantage and that no human paints by hand anymore. Meanwhile painters still exist and are probably not particularly upset by how many pictures per second a DSLR can do.
> like someone writing out machine code by hand vs using a compiler back in the day
Programming using a compiler is still the same kind of thing, just in a different language.
I'd it's more a convenient outcome of maximizing profits than premeditated. Not optimizing is cheaper for studios while Nvidia doesn't mind extra popularity for their DLSS feature.
Crysis 3 is over a decade old, still looks great and ran on hardware that wouldn't suffice for web browsing today. I haven't seen anything in games since then that justified a significant increase in system requirements.
You could ask your favorite LLM to come up with a nicer way of saying it.
> Because if I use an LLM to debug a crash report, then that’s the same category as creating a slop game
Steam has clear guidelines on what requires an AI disclosure, and all that people are asking for is that they can filter based on this. It's a tiny change.
> AI-assisted coding describes every software project everywhere in the world
That is simply not true.
> and then just… lie
I'm not a lawyer, but lying about something that influences the customer's purchase decision sounds a bit like fraud and not something I would advise to "just" do. If using AI is so normal then why lie about it?
An AI filter is in the interest of both sides here because the people who would "lose their minds" over it can just avoid it with the press of a button. And if you want to sell to everyone, then make a product everyone wants.
They don't ask for a ban but for a filter. So that everyone can choose for themselves.
I don't care if 90% of new games get tagged as AI, I am simply not interested in them. The developers don't care if they get tagged? Good, at least they'll be honest about it then. And on top I can filter out the 90% of suggestions I am least likely to care about? I don't see the downside.
> it carries no meaning about the quality of the games
It doesn't have to, Steam already has reviews.
No, that's Microsoft's approach.
Like when they made two generations of XBox consoles boot 5 seconds faster by making the unskippable boot animation 5 seconds shorter. Many years after the exact same issue bottlenecked Windows 7 boot times on SSDs.
Right, but that's a software problem. My first tablet cost $300 running Android 4.4 and ran pretty smoothly. I don't know what feature since then would justify the drop in efficiency.
To be fair to Apple here, the build quality is probably still pretty decent and worse specs don't necessarily mean lower price at a certain point. Still not much for that price imho.
They weren't a dick about it
I think it would be fair to call "Windows subsystem for Linux" a Linux feature, yes.
And Android is still the biggest mobile OS.
Firefox built from source is sufficiently sped up that I can notice it starting up at least 1-2 seconds faster. Not that I use the distro for speed, but I'm not complaining about a faster browser.
If you insist on acting like a normal person, no one stops you from using something normal.
It was possible to just donate money with no strings attached actually, and one of the two companies that helped did just that. And positive press was also involved.
I remember when the maintainer of an open source XML library contacted dozens of companies for support to fix a critical vulnerability, and most of them didn't even respond and aside from two the rest went basically "not our problem, get lost".
A handful of companies probably care a bit but most won't bother to pay even a penny.
What is not bloat about creating a hidden file for every file in every visited directory? It clutters up outputs, causes needless work for various tools, and deleting them is pointless as the system will just instantly recreate them.
Given the "endless options to change it" as you said, where is the option to turn that off?
> because it would be doing so without having access to the source
I find it unlikely that photopea was never scraped for AI training considering they are looking so hard for new material they started buying up and scanning old books.
Somehow people already had time with their kids before Claude. And before computers. Enjoying life is not a technology problem.
No, it wouldn't. Countries with such a law exist, all you need is reasonable exceptions. With some blurring even Google Streetview is not an issue.
That future is avoidable, but not with this self-fulfilling prophecy mindset.
I don't want to navigate a dark pattern to avoid accidentally deleting a downloaded program, followed by opening settings and entering my password just to run it.
And if there is a way to stop Mac OS from spamming hidden dot-underscore files everywhere, I haven't found it yet.
Chasing maximum productivity in an attempt to outrun time sounds a lot worse if you ask me.
> The EU abolished the €22 VAT exemption on low-value imports
Because it was abused by countless vendors that just wrote a random value below 22 Euros on the label no matter how much it cost.
> The EU introduced rules requiring consent for many non-essential cookies, helping turn everyday web browsing into an endless series of cookie banners
Not sure why you're blaming the messenger. Either way this can be solved by installing a browser plugin.
> Store your Really Important Info in a Google Drive/iCloud synced VeraCrypt volume
There is no way I would entrust Google or Apple with keeping important data. Google being infamous for account issues with absolutely no support and Apple already borked my account in a way that makes my iPad unusable the moment I turn on backup sync.
Which makes the often repeated excuse "Closed loop datacenters exist" to refute water use concerns a bit nonsensical.