Competitive online games have been Valve‘s focus for well over a decade so it‘s in line with their portfolio. If anything, Alyx was an outlier they only did because they have a headset to sell it with. I think they know what they‘re doing. Sucks for you to not be their target audience though because they are pretty good at making games.
That‘s the type of cockiness you‘d expect from scoundrels who just committed the biggest heist in history and got away with it. I‘m not surprised in the slightest.
This exact method is how Microsoft became a giant in the first place. They’ve been doing it for longer than I live and they’ll likely outlive me doing it.
Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....
I get that record sessions are a huge hassle and simply paying VAs per AI-generated voice line is easier for everyone, but it somehow makes Paradox look a little careless to me.
Stories like these also set a precident. This is what voice ‘acting’ will be like for a moment before it becomes effectively eliminated because voice libraries will become diverse enough quickly and there will be no need for a single more voice actor to be included. It seems like VAs are basically forced to sell their voice to AI companies quickly to at least make a quick buck before they never get a job again.
There’s probably no stopping it, but that made this read all the more frustrating to me.
They revealed some sort of companion for your phone that is ironically close to those in the movie „Her“ where the virtual girlfriend is voiced by Scarlet Johansson.
Oh seesh. I watched a recent coverage of him and Gabber literally yesterday. It felt so hopeful… and now this. Kinda feel robbed of my time now. Feels bizarre even though I don’t know him.
Setting aside what others have said here. I think the article does a lot of framing by suggesting the protests and criticism are entirely directed at Israel’s entry. From what I’ve seen, the whole event itself is in the midst of a crossfire of criticism for letting Israel participate as well as being heavily biased in favor of the Israeli contestant. The Q&A with the contestants yesterday seemed to be very politicized in general. But once Golan was asked something, the organizers felt the need to clarify that she does not have to answer anything she felt uncomfortable with. That rubbed the (now probably former) contestant of the Netherlands the wrong way, asking “Why not?”. Well, the Joost situation certainly doesn’t help the organizers either. Whether they had anything to do with it or not, it puts the spotlight on them even more.
I would never trust someone who surrounds themselves with the people Altman surrounds himself with. I always got bad vibes from Musk because he was close to people like Peter Thiel and it’s the same with Altman.
That’s kind of like defending monarchy because “surely the future king can’t be worse than the current one”. They are the same breed. He is them. It’s a somewhat systematic problem with these super rich technocrats.
That‘s exactly what bombs are for. You‘d think the POTUS would be aware what effect weapons of mass destruction have on civilian lives. In Germany we‘re still digging them out 80 years later as WW2 death tolls rise.
They‘re turning the internet into a mutated form of free TV. You only get to see what they want you to see and there are ads around every corner.
Of course the goal is to make you switch to a mutated form of pay TV. You still only get to see what they want you to see but there‘s a bigger pool of crap now.
To put it bluntly: After they cornered the market, they‘re killing the internet.
While that’s all relatively nice, it’s also a bandage on a gash.
Even saying it’s “nice” is an overstatement. With how quickly savings and jobs are vanishing and how expensive and stressful it is to raise a child, the population is more opposed to the idea of having children than ever before. Affordable housing isn’t the problem. There simply aren’t enough resources available to raise a new generation. The government will have to come up with something new if they want to prevent an all out crash of their economy because there is no way in hell the few young people will be able to support the massive aging population in the coming 2 decades.
For them happiness equals unexploited potential. Only when workers are depressed and hate their job do execs know for certain there is not much more extract. In other words they‘d rather actively decrease productivity and revenue than let people be happy while not knowing for certain if they‘re fully exploited already. Because if they are, then why would they be so damn happy?
Der AfD geht es nur noch ums Hassen und Radikalisieren. Sie will das Vertrauen in den Staat untergraben. Nach dem Urteil von Münster kann der Verfassungsschutz jetzt Material für ein Verbotsverfahren sammeln....
So ähnlich haben die Nazis damals schon die Weimarer Republik abgeschafft. Mit Einschüchterung, Hetze und Fake news haben sie genug Zulauf bekommen, um die Demokratie auszuhebeln. Natürlich ließen sie wie die Nazis heute nichts unversucht, aber der „legale“ Weg war dann der Durchbruch. Dagegen haben wir heute ein paar feine Mechanismen, aber die müssen erst mal aktiviert werden.
I mean that’s completely illegal at least in places like Germany where people have the right to be forgotten, but unfortunately you’re still right. They already commited the biggest heist in human history and got away with it. I guess NFT grifters only got punished because they dared to also steal from some rich people while Altman and his cronies are smart enough to only steal from the other 99.9%. When they have your data once, you can’t request it back anymore. Because the worst that can happen to them is a slap on the wrist and the cost of being in the fastest growing business of our times. In other words: World’s fucked and shit sucks.
I saw people defending MS here, saying technically nobody lost their job because the staff was moved to other MS developers. So let me just tell you that jobs are next on the chopping block and they‘re just doing it independently of the studios they just killed.
Just my two cents so take it with a grain of salt: Adderall is extremely sought after on the black market, especially among rich fucks. The abuse is probably the worst it ever was so I suspect a lot of it just goes missing before it can get labeled. In other words: Corruption.
Can’t believe these asshats are still hiding their megalomaniac desire for power and control behind the well being of children. If we ever need perpetual surveillance it’s to keep scum like them in check.
Für Jens Eskelund ist es der wichtigste Tag im Jahr. „Denn heute ist der Moment der Wahrheit“, sagt der Präsident der Europäischen Handelskammer in China. Am Freitag präsentierte er die Ergebnisse der alljährlichen Geschäfsklimaumfrage, des wichtigsten Stimmungsbarometers westlicher Firmen in China. Viel zu feiern gibt...
Ich hatte allgemein erwartet, dass unsere Mitglieder einen Wendepunkt in Bezug auf ihren Pessimismus wahrgenommen hätten.
Einen Wendepunk gab es, nur eben in die andere Richtung. Wir Europäer haben aber auch echt lange gebraucht um zu raffen, dass China keine erstrebenswerte Zukunft hat. Da sind uns die Amerikaner wie so oft um Jahre voraus und wir trotten mal wieder blöd hinterher.
Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter (www.eurogamer.net)
Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter....
Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)
After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them (kotaku.com)
Chinese police were allowed into Australia to speak with a woman. They breached protocol and escorted her back to China (www.abc.net.au)
Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (www.pcgamer.com)
OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (www.tomsguide.com)
The Netherlands' entry Joost Klein not rehearsing 'until further notice' over 'incident' (news.sky.com)
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Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions (www.cnbc.com)
Minecraft is 50% off right now
In other words, the full price of the game is $40....
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Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button (www.theverge.com)
TIL China now has a 3 child policy. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Maximum, that is....
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (arstechnica.com)
Kommentar zum OVG-Urteil: Ein Verbot der AfD ist überfällig (www.tagesschau.de) German
Der AfD geht es nur noch ums Hassen und Radikalisieren. Sie will das Vertrauen in den Staat untergraben. Nach dem Urteil von Münster kann der Verfassungsschutz jetzt Material für ein Verbotsverfahren sammeln....
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15479755...
Legendary creator Shinji Mikami has one word for Microsoft shutting down the studio he founded: 'Sad' (www.pcgamer.com)
ADHD drug shortage shows signs of letting up, but some patients still struggle (www.nbcnews.com)
The FDA said it expects additional supply will be returning in the coming months....
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Sinkende Gewinne, schwieriges Umfeld: Laut der jährlichen Geschäftsklimaumfrage haben EU-Firmen noch nie so negativ auf Chinas Wirtschaft geblickt (taz.de) German
Für Jens Eskelund ist es der wichtigste Tag im Jahr. „Denn heute ist der Moment der Wahrheit“, sagt der Präsident der Europäischen Handelskammer in China. Am Freitag präsentierte er die Ergebnisse der alljährlichen Geschäfsklimaumfrage, des wichtigsten Stimmungsbarometers westlicher Firmen in China. Viel zu feiern gibt...