Axel, The Guitarist

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

You don't hate Rockstar enough, once again circumstances prove that the negative stories about them aren't exaggerated, but watered down.
gtaforums.com/topic/100418...

Boeing of gaming companies.

AI generated content disclosure via Arc Raider's Steam page: The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.

They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

This wasn’t about leaking GTA VI.

It was:
Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing.

it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.

'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting "They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.

A tweet posting corporate news related to Mihoyo that reads: The hackathon hosted by BosonAl @boson_ai also featured HoYoverse among its participants. BosonAl is a startup focused on research into large language models (LLMs), and its founder, Professor Li Mu, a graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was involved in the development of the game (Whispers from the Star) for Anuttacon, the company of miHoYo's former chairman Cai Haoyu. There is an image of a banner for the event that features Hoyoverse’s name repeatedly

The description that comes up for Boson AI when you google search It reads: Making communication with Al as easy, natural and fun as talking to a human. Audio Generation. Rich emotional voice synthesis. Multi-speaker dialog generation.

The Linkedin posting for the Boson AI hackathon event: Higgs Audio Hackathon | 24-26 October | Sign up TODAY! . We're looking for builders, breakers, and bold thinkers to join Boson Al's upcoming Hackathon in collaboration with the Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) team. This is your chance to push the limits of our newest foundation model, Higgs Audio V2. Here's why you don't want to miss it: Prizes on prizes: Cutting-edge hardware, merch, compute credits, project publicity and more. Free food all weekend, plus a Sunday pub night. Get scouted! We will be on the lookout for top talent to join our team.

HoYoverse participated in the recent BosonAI hackathon event this past week.

BosonAI promotes themselves as “Making communication with Al as easy, natural and fun as talking to a human.” and highlights “Audio Generation. Rich emotional voice synthesis.”

Highlighting because of the audio aspect.

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

you can opt out in your channel settings!

worth noting that this doesn't apply to quality settings that already exist (i.e. if a video is in 240p, the actual original 240p version is still viewable)

this change sucks but it is so much easier to navigate around than people are pretending it is

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

Please I'm begging people to share this with your friends if you're still on twt/x and get the hell outta there.

PLEASE DON'T SUPPORT THIS "INDIE PROJECT"

IT'S GENERATIVE AI SLOP

Very disappointed that no one is calling it out in the comments. But it's possible they could be deleting negative ones.

I was fooled by the preview image thinking "OMG GIRL BALTO" but nope, AI slop. #furry #furryart #animation

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

If people don’t communicate their needs, issues, or triggers and hide things from you only to unleash them like a deluge that’s toxic as hell. You deserve people around you that will have those hard conversations, communicate clearly, and foster actual community. True friends grow together.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.

Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.

Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

This is a BAD idea from a tactical pov

all this means is an issue that bsky mods do NOT want controversy around will have NO posting about it for a full week

a large number of people who come back from the "blackout" will likely not start up the complaints again

it hamstrings the cause

Apparently this is false, the article that cites this information was translated from a Korean article that doesn’t mention ChatGPT at all. The song was also written 8 years ago. I think Sherwin Wu just lied to try and drum up excitement using a popular thing

I keep saying this, but you all need to get out of twitter like... right now. Look what he does with people's data.

Between this and him openly calling for fascists to violently overthrow governments, on video, that should paint a very clear picture.

Do it.

Search your name.

Take their money.

It’s yours anyway.

Photo of Revy Photoshopped onto a transgender flag She's pointing back and looking shocked

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

between wplace being zionists and wplace taking the side of a streamer who doxxed a trans woman and removing said trans woman as a moderator i think we probably should not be using it anymore heads up

anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify

"AI will help the disabled make art"

Cool, your ableism is showing.

Chuck close is almost fully paralyzed and painted this.

hey if you're still on twitter because you think your customer base is there, no it isnt

✅ Disabled people deserve to get married without losing their benefits.

✅ Disabled people deserve friendship, not just tolerance.

✅ Disabled people deserve to have more than $2k in assets.

✅ Disabled people deserve a seat at the table.

✅ Disabled people deserve accommodations.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

If your autism is you general reasoning for being ignorant and just a bit of a douche..

That's not autism, you're just ignorant and a douche.

Signed, a fellow neurodivergant who you're making my life just a tiny bit harder by making neurodivergents look like jackasses.