may just be the most visible example of a much broader phenomenon: the subtle reshaping of ordinary human belief by conversational AI

Nothing subtle about it. Interactive propaganda television.

That control is usually about political correctness as defined by the organization making the encyclopedia in question. People often say Britannica is good, no fucking way, those people have just forgotten how miserable it is compared to Wikipedia.

Yes, and there are pretty old worlds, from the time of MUDs and with similar public.

EDIT: There's such a Russian fantasy writer as Alexey Pekhov, with worlds kinda based in notable enough plagiarism of Thief games universe, VtM and Sapkowski, but his things are a subject of nostalgy for me ; so - there are still running NWN worlds based on them, and their peak of popularity was like 15 years ago in a completely different world (meaning IRL).

Those should be paid out to users harmed, to produce incentive for more and more class actions lawsuits. EDIT: And awareness that they are breaking laws and you can get stuff from them, that always makes people attentive.

If law is to work against them, there should be traction.

Time to install NWN. Never could get too interested in playing it, except perhaps listening to music and looking at maps while running around, especially with cheeky DnD character names and armor and looks and plot, but it's a DnD game with decent custom campaign with multiplayer ability, the closest it seems for me to IRL DnD of those games, and really removing the need for remembering dozens of nonsense numbers and rules.

They also made Linux version of NWN in the olden days, if somebody perhaps remembers. When I was trying to become an advanced Linux user, I first installed Debian and liked it, then tried Gentoo and failed to find where my wireless drivers are, or to set wi-fi up, in any case couldn't use it without wire, but got a look of vanilla Gnome 2 of its last supported days, it was very nice, and installed NWN from portage (it was there) and played it a bit. Then moved to Slackware, and also played Linux versions of NWN and old CK2 (somehow it was less laggy than now and seemed more balanced, history in the game seemed to develop more logically, except, of course, it was just a glossified and simplified European feudalism simulator with no ambition and no sense in playing anywhere but South Germany).

Well, what do you see around you, who needs this?

I mean, OK, worked with the Web, so - might happen.

But even with the Web - we don't seem to be on Facebook now, do we?

Also p2p poolable resources are not a bad thing, so honestly I'd want more positive thoughts on this, with ideas how to make a functional p2p system of lending computing power, for games too.

Would likely need overhead in the form of some intermediate bytecode, though, due to different GPUs and architectures, and probably different kinds of it for GPUs and CPUs, and some way to pay, but in general such a thing if made could become the second really popular Kademlia application after BitTorrent.

OK, I've become very dreamy after putting together a clumsy Forth in C, that doesn't even do anything useful, but perhaps one day someone with longer hands.

(said with six upvotes over the root comment)

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He had to be localized with "r" and "zz" interchanged in Russian due to "drist" root being related to diarrhea.

(But not unpronounceable)

You know, I sometimes forget I'm not the last of SW EU fans living.

And use best practices. Or it won't use best practices. Which best practices? Best practices, you luddite, don't you know the best practices? Which specifically? Best practices!!!

I just don't understand this, one can make a wall out of lots of cardboard if it's ventilated and covered from wind and snow and rain and mist and whatever else. What one shouldn't do is to expect that wall to be as good as a brick wall.

It's a tool to shoot slop code where humans too repeat slop code. Replace stupid and sizey code with machine-generated same thing, but cheaper.

One would expect a commercial product to not be something main features of which rely upon generated code. At least without proper testing. Eh, OK, now I've remembered how I work.

If you know what algorithmic complexity is, thousand servers might be as good as one, depending on purpose.

In this case I think global network is the problem. Mesh and offline applications like Briar are one of the solutions.

Fired. Should have fired them into a pair prison cell (with all conveniences, of course, and a good couch).

Of course, why do you think they are running around with warnings about "rogue AI destroying humanity"?

They hope something of what they throw at the wall sticks and some legislations limit their competition.

By the way, this kind of throwing money at the wall unfortunately works (if you have enough money).

But also - with this kind of applications being useful, memory prices would jump regardless.

OK, I'm just guessing.

Oh. I've seen the post on their site now.

Why necessarily "your likeness"? And honestly yes, everyone has the right to draw whatever they want, just presenting it as real or using for bullying campaigns should be a crime.

Because those are crossing someone's personal borders, while doing something that doesn't concern them at all - is not.

No, it's not necessarily constructed from real CSAM. It can be constructed from real photos of children and real porn.

Anyway, when saying that someone should be jailed, you should consider all the main possibilities.

EDIT: And when you have real porn with adults, hentai with supposed adults and anime with children, that might be good enough to generate something that's technically like generated CSAM, even if the quality might not be too good. Anyway, I'm not very well-versed on quality of CSAM.

I personally don’t care if it was produced artificially or not. These sick fucks need to be imprisoned and thrown in gen pop.

If it's produced artificially, then he hasn't done any ill to a living person. He has polluted the Web, but in doing that has reduced the demand for non-artificial CSAM. It's like "posting goatse in Facebook" level of crime at best.

And you are calling for him to be imprisoned for being a "sick fuck", that is, for thought crime caused by mental illness.

Other than the latter being a circumstance, thought crimes are not a thing for any decent person, AFAIR.

Otherwise I'd want for sick fucks like you not understanding that a crime is a violation of someone else's rights to be preventively imprisoned. That at least fits said condition.

Harmful about law, useful about facts of life one like that generating a picture doesn't involve abusing a child, so it's not child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Yes, I do feel threatened by people who think it's just to punish consuming generated material. That's because of pretty "normal" porn. Is watching (and spreading) something about BSDM similar to sexual abuse materials (about adults)? Is generated porn sexual exploitation material, if porn is in some future outlawed as such with real punishments? Is it, if the dataset is polluted with cases of slavery and rape? If it's not, then is it legal in such a potential future?

If you do that to CSAM, try applying the same logic to normal porn and plenty of other things which are for some people sick, but legal because nobody suffers.

The problem with generated CSAM is that it normalizes sick things, well, that's still a crime an order of magnitude less than spreading a record of real rape. Seems obvious.

And it makes perfect sense that before reading this many people felt that they clearly see Russian bots vanishing.

Human psychology is just not equipped for open Web. Especially social media kind of it. F2F and personal webpages and circles of friends are fine, but anything crowd-related is worse than sending pigeons.

That's the eco-friendliness we deserve, and from Japan no less.