Quoting: KimyrielleThe top 5 LLMs are all Chinese-made these days and most of them use a fraction of the parameters the Western models use (to the degree you can run them on machines easily within reach even for smaller companies, no AWS needed).

interesting.. & Compounding that, in the west we will Might see (after a certain time has past ;) ) a move to regulate Ai across the board as a bulwark against things such as identity theft & misrepresentation, updated intellectual property law, political propaganda. So then, how does Ai stand if that should happen if all the unregulated models and a lot of servers clusters are located in china ?

Would that matter in terms of digital warfare, propaganda ? Could we see a restriction on china Ai too ?
Genuinely asking as i have no idea how the chips would fall.

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Quoting: KimyrielleBecause in the end it doesn't matter what made a game as long as it's fun to play.

It does to some people. Whether they have a choice or not ? Well, being informed about the inclusion of Ai at least for now will help people make their own ethical choices.

Pretty much every transformative technology destroys jobs and businesses. That's normal. People who feel threatened by said new technology typically turn into haters, thinking they can stop or at least delay it. That has never worked.

it may not have worked to completely stop a technology (and that's not really what most people are concerned about), however societal outcry from the public & general activism has enabled legislators to protect it's citizens from the worst impacts of said technology, or at the very least install guard rails.

This carte blanche attitude of "suck it up, it's here deal with it" , "you are obsolete" and then "your a hater " if you don't agree, is a kind of thinking that leads a very bad political climate. When there is no informed consent.

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Quoting: EriIn The Finals they use it for the voice of the match commentators with mixed results... And most of the time you are too focused or talking to your team mates to pay attention to them.

but who's voice signature was it trained from ? would it be possible to ask the studio ? if there is no reply could you use a FOIA request to find out ? what's the law around this , does anybody know ?

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im using KDE 5.27.12 in Linux mint, its been almost entirely bug free and recovered from most if not all crashes. I can't imagine how good it would be on 6.5 ! But i don't really know of a stable distro with an upto date version of KDE?

Manjaro was my goto for ages, loved it. But then they were adding the 'opt-out' data collection and refused to change it. Im also wasn't keen on the arrogant denial'ist approach of some of their dev's when the community speaks out. Other flavors of Arch are pretty cool but i usually at most manage around 6-8 months (if that) before im fixing something fundamental and less than that for general hiccups.

Perhaps i should try Bazzite or CachyOS ? maybe chimeraOS ?

i do have a iso ready of Debian Siduction but i couldnt find GPG keys for verifying the iso on their website like most other distros.

the search continues.

*edit KDE is genuinely great. i was one of the love/hate users previously. Not much hate for it now. Would be nice if the themes style and transparency/blur applied to Dolphin too though

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Quoting: TheRiddickI'm not opposed of AI gen being used for voice acting (when done right and not stealing VA)

define stealing. Outright plagiarism is perhaps easy to spot but hard to prove let alone raise an expensive legal challenge.But taking a VA and modifying it is even more deceptive. The voice isn't just an audio signature , it's the soul & passion of the artist.

back to first point .. this is how i see what's happening.

They know there stealing
We know there stealing
They know we know there stealing

But what is a poorly paid struggling artist going to do against an army of billionaire backed lawyers ?

as @Nezchan put it there probably vacillating between litigating for billions themselves or working out how many billions they can save by wiping out large portions of 'useless' humanity using Ai

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Quoting: NezchanThe trouble is, they're conflicted. On the one side is copyright and their ability to squeeze all the money out of intellectual property forever.

On the other, they might get to use the technology to replace all the artists, writers, actors, etc. with free robot slaves. Or worse, someone else might get robot slaves first.

It's a tough call.

ah, the old shall i be evil or even more evil thought process.

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What i don't understand is where the lawyers at ?

Ai is hoovering up the entire digital works of human kind & being used by LLM to produce mostly slop. Why not request the learned data sets and sift through it to see if the machines are using copyrighted content ? It's computers .. there is an audit trail by the nature of computers.

your average person can't even download a 20+ year old video game ROM for an ancient console without fear of repercussions or share footage of a game being emulated without receiving a DMCA . What happened to those aggressive litigators ? Did they give up, Do they not understand their content is being used to train models too.

you would think lawyers should be making some serious BANK right now..

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hows about NOTF2 ?

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Quoting: fabertaweImagine the treasure trove up for grabs if digital IDs were to be implemented in the UK. And it will be grabbed, 100%. Hopefully the backlash against this will prove overwhelming and sanity will prevail.

just another tick box to add to your personal insurance plan for identity theft protection. That way companies benefit from the theft on both ends.

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Quoting: R Daneel OlivawJust want to double down on the last line item in the article: EA is now owned by some of the most horrifyingly disgusting human beings on the planet, so should be avoided at all costs.

On the plus side it will probably not be long before it ends up asset stripped by a private equity firm.

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