Using ChatGPT to avoid "professional embarassment" and getting so publicly owned is very funny

Krafton CEO allegedly asked ChatGPT to help him find a way out of paying Subnautica 2 devs their bonuses because he wanted to avoid the 'professional embarrassment' of being seen as a 'pushover' A pre-trial brief filed by former Unknown Worlds bosses says Krafton CEO Changham Kim was worried about losing his job for overpaying for the studio.

dear lord. these people.

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...ideally, yes?

This is pretty accurate. My only concern is the private credit side. There's apparently so much money being borrowed to build data centers it's boosting the US economy to avoid a recession. And I guess we just...don't know?
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IF there is any bailout, which I don't think there will be, it'll be to bail out the bullshit lenders/private credit entities. The only GFC-level event could be if there's masses of secret private credit debt, but is that systemically threatening like the GFC was?

What would a bailout even be, though? TARP was to buy distressed assets, and in this case, what would those be? Mag7 companies aren't going bankrupt. OpenAI can't be "bailed out" in the same way, as it'll keep burning money. And no, oAI is not some giant "propaganda conspiracy."

The Epstein documents — with the strange, indecipherable typing style and abrupt endings — are haunting when you know the depravity they represent. They are also at times deeply pedestrian: In an exchange after the “sweep” of Google, Epstein complains about what he’s being charged for SEO services. “I was never told never, that there was a 10k fee per month„ you inittaly said the project would take 20.. then another 10. then another 10” he wrote in one message. Fishkin estimates that a job of this magnitude would cost $100,000 initially, plus five-figure per-month maintenance fees. “The prices just looked insanely low to me,” Fishkin says. “Here’s a billionaire who supposedly is worried about his reputation as a fucking pedophile coming out in public, arguing over a few thousand dollars. Honestly, the chutzpah is insane.”

The Epstein emails are full of powerful people colluding to protect the most heinous behavior. They're also pretty pathetic at times — as when Epstein was complaining about the cost of hiring someone to do SEO to COVER UP RUNNING A PEDOPHILE RING.

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

So @mims.bsky.social is doing some of the best work in the mainstream media on AI and data centers, and is one of the few who is asking the difficult questions rather than looking for convenient ways to back up market consensus, it’s nice to see

However you feel about Tom Cruise you gotta admit he loves nearly dying making movies

I always meant to read this but never got around to it, but my interest has definitely fallen off since the world proved accountability was just vibes anyway

This feels like a much better description of Twitter than Bluesky for me but that might be a function of my smaller following here

Is this not a symptom of PMDD?

I had to screen record this one, it’s so bad. A visual artist who has Claude develop a “shot list” from his notes. Embarrassing. Also pretty interesting how little of this is about AI? Three years in and this is the best they’ve got. Embarrassing! Shameful!

It also (like so many other things), puts paid to the lie that "AI is a tool to help people be more efficient at their jobs" because the people deciding to employ the tool aren't the people using it for their own job, it's people above them using it to avoid paying the people whose job it is.

You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

This reflects a comment I saw on reddit or something recently, which is that AI is not going to get materially better or solve the hallucination problem - instead, our corporate masters are simply going to force everyone to expect and accept lower quality output so AI gets a passing grade.

And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary.

We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

"The only issue I am facing as a professional art director in games is that I just want them to leave me and my art teams alone so we can make cool art. There is no problem to be solved here"

I think about this quote A LOT

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

A page of 4 frames featuring my OC Sofia

Frames 🪟

Landscape gouache painting of some green fields full of flowers.

Flowers, gouache

How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified

Chatbots as a luxury good.

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politics rn are when youre playing a social deception game and one of your teammates on the not-hitler side doesn't want to take the game seriously and you all lose and they don't know why everyone is so upset at them