Quoting: 14I think there is an argument that reading copyrighted material is same as a human doing so and then writing their own creative work

When people do this, they pay for the privilege, or access libraries and can only check out books and copyrighted materials for private use. OpenAI and others aren't doing that, they're just consuming all the content, even pirated material and context behind paywalls, on the internet, and using it to train their model.

Of course, proving that will be the court battle.

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Just looking at the screenshot fills me with rage. Not my kind of game at all... :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: elmapulin other words, companies like valve target the most profitable markets, while smaller companies target the markets that valve isnt interessed yet...

Hmmm . . . one of the markets Valve apparently isn't interested in has quite a bit of profit potential. Presumably this Ayaneo thing will sell in China. I mean, it's a Chinese company.

Obligatory comment about the Steam Deck not being sold in Australia/NZ. Though I'll be the first to admit we don't have as many people as China does.

(But they sell it in Canada!)

Haha - I just looked up the numbers! In terms of landmass, China is only slightly larger than Australia (around 20% bigger). But it has, wait for it, 46 TIMES as many people - 1.4 billion compared to Australia's 30 million! Yikes!! So I guess Ayaneo has a market at least!

But as for Valve, yeah, good point - Canada has around the same population as Australia, so it's clearly not the numbers driving this decision. It's either regulation, import/export laws, or supply chain. Or something else - global freight isn't my thing, so I'm guessing.

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Quoting: scaineI'll bet there are mechanics out there who walk past my car while I'm sitting at a set of lights and can critic all sorts of stuff I do with it - poor tire wear, dirty interior, crass stickers, slipping fan belt, revving too high whatever. I don't care. I'm not a car person. I don't give a single shit about the state of my car. But I care deeply about the tech I use.

i mean, i get the analogy. But people who neglect the maintenance of their car when it comes to lights (in winter) indicators / brakes & especially tires are just about as bad as drink drivers and rightfully are usually fined or sometimes even jailed.

Haha, yep, my tires are fine. It was just an analogy.

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Quoting: BelaptirBecause the "average player" is an illiterate pig that would accept whatever, even selling their mother just so they can keep playing their chosen videogame. It's come to that. The average player has no principles at all.

I'm really not digging the sweeping generalisation here, dude. Plenty of absolutely lovely people just don't care about computers, but certainly do want to play games with their mates. You and I don't know what "the average Joe" is, but we clearly have different ideas of what they look like.

Illiterate pigs happy to sell their mothers? No principles? Jesus. C'mon.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumDo they not realise that this software has a high enough level of access to do any number of activities on their computer, and hide it from the OS and the user? For example, hide a running process from "Task manager" on Windows, and continue running even after they close the game?

Can you really justify that level of access just for a game?

Course they can. They do. They're not techies, they just want to play games and write the odd email, maybe check their socials (although that's probably more phone-based these days). Besides, it's the norm on Windows - everything gets full control. AV software, for example. There are still hundreds of articles out there that suggest that if you're having a problem with a given piece of software, two common troubleshooting tips are a) turn off your AV and/or firewall and b) run it as root.

It's a different culture, which makes sense, because it's a different audience.

I'll bet there are mechanics out there who walk past my car while I'm sitting at a set of lights and can critic all sorts of stuff I do with it - poor tire wear, dirty interior, crass stickers, slipping fan belt, revving too high whatever. I don't care. I'm not a car person. I don't give a single shit about the state of my car. But I care deeply about the tech I use.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GuestP.S. According to LanguageTool, three commas were needed in the article.

Ehhh, IMO commas are kind of a "soft" punctuation mark--there are stylistic differences in how people use them. There are many situations where it's not really technically "wrong" either to use one or not to use one, and others where it is wrong by some technical standards to do it a particular way, but doing it that "wrong" way still works given the flow of the sentence and the way people talk. Periods, for instance, are a lot clearer--if you're at the end of a sentence you should be using one, period. Well, unless you have a reason to use a question mark or exclamation point instead. But commas are comparatively mushy, and I don't trust computerized guidance about how to use them.

All the places where LanguageTool said a comma was needed, I wouldn't care either way. However, I personally err on the side of using the commas, because they save lives after all.

This joke?

A comma is the difference between:
- Let's eat, Grandma!
and
- Let's eat Grandma!

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I'd love to know where the money is being made with this shit. AI is not cheap to run, and while it's not proof-of-work coin-mining bad, it's still pretty bad for the environment overall, given that all the compute is running on hot-ass tensor cores guzzling electricity and cooling before it melts. Microsoft stuffed over $10B (yep, billion) into OpenAI, with another billion coming from multiple rounds of fund-raising, with OpenAI also apparently wooing the middle-east for another $8B-$12B. Meanwhile, Meta is pushing Llama2, Google is pushing Bard and Gemini, while Amazon, Google and others are all out (also to the tune of around $6B) on Anthropic.

And for what? LLMs are just complex guessers. Sure, they guess with context, but they're still just guessing based on all the billions of documents they consumed during their (extremely intensive) training. You can't use them for research because they make shit up [External Link]... because they're just guessing. It's a mess.

I'm hoping that 2024 might see some of this novelty wear off as consumers realise how bland and uninspiring AI generated content generally is, but I suspect that real, lasting damage will have been done by then.

It has a use in enterprise settings, properly controlled, with targeted outcomes. As it stands? Total shit show.

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A mate of mine raved about Midnight Suns and was sad I refused to buy it (cos Denuvo). However, this bundle is worthwhile just for Roguebook in my opinion, a game I've raved about quite a few times in the past (and more recently).

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I've played 27 of the 50 overall, 8 of the platinum games. Very few on my Steam Deck though! That tends to be simple 2D or pseudo-3D games mostly. The only Platinum game I played on Deck was Dave the Diver.

What I love about this list is that there's so few Denuvo games on there. Hi-Fi Rush, Street Fighter 6 and Midnight Suns are the only ones that jumps out at me. It's great that Monster Hunter World is on there (had Denuvo, it was removed), while Monster Hunter Rise isn't (still has Denuvo).

I hate wishing ill on anyone, I really do hate the whole cancel culture thing, but as a very committed gamer, I'd happily see Denuvo fold tomorrow and I'd toast its demise with a whisky and a smile.

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