Bungie just continues to not want my money. The absolute hundreds I'd have spent on Destiny 2 by now if they'd just ticked the "Linux on BattleEye" box.

Bizarre, but I've come to terms with their attitude now and I've had their creator page ignored for quite some time.

Feel feel to "ignore creator" with me by visiting their page and hitting the settings cog at the top right. It's quite cathartic!

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Bungie [External Link]

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Absolutely no idea what to make of that trailer! On to the wishlist it goes!! 😅

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Quoting: EikeAnd you admins know all Chineese or Turkmenish AI services...?

Negative filters don't work.
Positive filters are to restrictive to do development with in the first place.

Nah, but we use a next-gen firewall from a top provider and they have multi-level web categorisation that allows us to block at various levels of aggressiveness. Will it catch them all? Nope, of course not, but that's why we do Shadow-IT monitoring. Once you've closed the big doors, your Shadow-IT initiatives can start focusing on the gaps and cracks in the wall.

It'll never be 100% of course, but generally, it doesn't have to be. If people get through the big blocks, they'll know they're crossing the line because our policies are pretty robust, simple to follow and clearly articulated. And we reinforce those policies with blogs, quarterly modular training and annual compliance attestations, and a security champions programme.

If they're willing to risk their career to use a bespoke, uncategorised, Chinese AI, that's on them.

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*edit*
And how would the company even know if their game contains AI generated code? Surveillance of all their developers? Strong filters in the office? What about working in home office...?

That's pretty straightforward with firewall filtering. At my work, we block everything except the two or three services we have strong legal agreements with.

Maybe Devs can still get around this with their phones on 5G, say, but retyping all that code would be tedious. They still get to use genAI sadly, but at least it's not dodgy services that will use query and query history to build future models.

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Quoting: Brokatt

Quoting: scaineI discovered this game by accident just before Christmas, a couple of days into the co-op beta, and me and my three mates played it for over 50 hours over the Christmas period.

It's absolutely stunning. My Steam review goes into detail, but basically, even in early access, this game has launched itself into my (ever-changing) Top Ten Games of All Time.

I'm a sucker for fantasy RPGs, but the way they mix meaty combat, progression, and puzzles is sublime. The graphics and animations are simply five-star too. Incredible game.

I was so inspired by your post that I bought it and convinced my friend to buy it. Turns out the co-op beta has ended 😆 We just have to wait until release on 22/1 😀

Oof, haha! I mean, it's literally the first line of this article, but I can see how you overlooked it!! I wasn't aware it was a time-limited beta either, and my mate was like "the co-op is gone!" in early January! At least it's only a week away now! Still a great game single-player, but definitely lends itself to a multi-player playthrough, it's so much more fun, especially when you're building out your townhouse (whichever one you end up buying) in Sacrament!

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Man, I can't believe we're still defending genAI. As I've pointed out in many other comments, the top reasons I hear for the "negative resentment" are, in no particular order:

1. Negative impact on environment, slap bang in the middle of a climate crisis.
2. Driving job losses based on exaggerated claims of "efficiency".
3. Lowers IQ (I can't be bothered digging out the link yet again)
4. Slows down development (even in cases where developers claimed it sped them up, evidence showed otherwise)
5. Driving a nuclear age (Meta, Google and Microsoft have now all commissioned their own reactors)
6a. Societal impact - talking people into hurting others and/or themselves, sometimes leading to deaths)
6b. Societal impact - driving non-consensual nudity on Grok, including child pornography. When Musk learned of this, he paywalled the "feature". He paywalled it... not removed... paywalled it. FFS. Also see deepfakes of politians, or fraud using social engineering techniques.
6c. Societal impact - genAI "slop" now devalues everything on the internet. When you see something cool, you think "meh, it's probably just AI shite". Or it actually IS shite, in which case, genAI is on a race to the bottom, since the next generation of genAI will be taught on today's internet - mistakes will be compounded, biases reinforced.
7. Loss leading pricing - hoping to hook consumers/enterprisesthen putting prices up (see OpenAI adding adverts to ChatGPT)
8. Hallucination (multiple cases of invented bullshit, including court filings, leading to lawyers being debarred).
9. Obnoxious marketing (see MS especially).
10. Diverting investment away from targeted solution, and into a financial bubble (because #7).
11. All genAI engines are built on plagiarised work, for which the original authors/artists got no recognition, nor commission. Same with code - all code was scraped, regardless of license, and that code can be regurgitated in new, OR snippet form, by genAI, without recognition of that license.
12. Impact on website scraping from multiple companies building genAI models. Wikipedia in particular has had to actively block enormous ranges to prevent the scraping from leading them into financial run. Again, can't be bothered to find the link, but there's a Wikimedia blog talking about it.

Anyone offering the "it's just a tool" argument, is being deliberately obtuse. They're basically arguing that the ends absolutely justify the means, no matter the cost.

And the cost is high. Big tech has absolutely no morals, and this is a race to the bottom, fueled by literally hundreds of billions of investment that could have have so much difference elsewhere.

But hey, it's just a tool, right?

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I discovered this game by accident just before Christmas, a couple of days into the co-op beta, and me and my three mates played it for over 50 hours over the Christmas period.

It's absolutely stunning. My Steam review goes into detail, but basically, even in early access, this game has launched itself into my (ever-changing) Top Ten Games of All Time.

I'm a sucker for fantasy RPGs, but the way they mix meaty combat, progression, and puzzles is sublime. The graphics and animations are simply five-star too. Incredible game.

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Some chat reported in my Google feed that Facepunch (who make Rust) have offered Amazon $25M to buy the game and turn it into a community effort. Well see. The screenshot of their offer looked like banter to me, not a serious offer, although Facepunch CEO Alistair McFarlane went on to say that he values game preservation, so maybe its real.

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Quoting: minidou

Quoting: scaineI've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

The vast majority of people do not care.

That's not my experience. Working in an enterprise of nearly 2000 staff, there are plenty of opinions and cooler-chat about GenAI and as I say, most people revile it. Maybe you meant the general public... but again, I see mostly negativity on various social media platforms.

Surveys tend to agree. https://civiqs.com/results/ai_impact [External Link]

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I always find the disconnect between enterprise/management and the general public on GenAI absolutely amazing. There's such enthusiasm for GenAI in the enterprise (at least at the owner or senior management level) based on quotes like "38% efficiency gain", which, it turns out, enterprise translate to "wow, we can get rid of 38% of our staff".

I've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

(for being based on plagiarism, for its impact on the environment, for job losses, for talking kids/adults into hurting/killing themselves, for kick-starting a new nuclear age, for bumping the price of gaming tech through the roof, for impacting sites by scraping them constantly, for being obnoxiously rammed into people's faces over and over again while being demonstrably worse than simpler or even existing alternatives... take your pick and let me know if I've missed anything)

Fair to say I'll never buy from Cygames now. Here's their creator page on Steam if you want to "ignore publisher".

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43153491 [External Link]

And of course they posted on Twitter. Looking at some of their content, maybe that's the best place for them.

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