I mean, you took the first sentence out and ignored the rest of what I said. My point was that yes that is a reason, but it’s not the only reason. My point was they don’t wanna sell to consumers because Elon Musk is just gonna pre-order their entire stock for the next two years.
Well, yeah. I already have one. My company gave me a $500 Amazon giftcard for Christmas even though I never use Amazon so I spent it on something I didn’t really want that much. Besides that, even my neice amd nephew weren’t excited about it and were like “it only has like two games.”
Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of having a car and having the option to go anywhere I want whenever I want. At the same time I wish it wasn’t my only option. I live in a semi rural area and I literally can’t get anything I need as a person without driving. And even if I decided to walk I have to walk alongside a fucking highway with no sidewalk just to get there.
So what you are saying is that I’ll have to choose between buying a house or buying a computer?
Just kidding, I can’t afford either.
What’s crazy is that they aren’t just doing this because they make more money with AI. They’re doing this because these AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made yet for datacenters that are not even built yet all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up. As long as the manufacturers get paid they don’t really give a shit, but this is so unsustainable it would be hilarious if it weren’t so catastrophic for the rest of us. And as long as the line goes up as they all circle jerk their money around they’ll all be happy and can pretend the economy is good.
Why would you use nuclear weapons on a country you wish to occupy? Either they are crazy, lying, or desperate. Or all three.
I remember turning down everyone in my first play through of Baldur’s Gate 3 as I thought to myself “yo why is everyone trying to fuck me I thought we were just buds.”
Regardless of your own personal opinion of generative AI, it’s very apparent at this point that it is widely unpopular. Sure, there are some success stories here and there with AI like Arc Raiders and I can’t argue against a game that is obviously extremely popular, but at the same time I’ve seen games drop off the face of the earth and get their reviews tanked as soon as it comes out they used generative AI. If anything I’d say Embark learned their lesson from their previous game, The Finals, to where they just didn’t even try and hide it for Arc Raiders and I think that helped with their success. They didn’t tell anyone about using AI for The Finals until it released and I feel like that’s a big reason why it never took off. Went from over 200,000 players to less than 50,000 in the span of a month or two.
I’d say it’s more of an honesty problem. The games that are successful were known to have generative AI from the start while the ones getting a lot of flak are the ones that were trying to hide it. To be perfectly honest, I’m okay with you using generative AI to make your game. Personally I’d lose a significant amount of interest in your game if you did and I’d be pretty disappointed, but I’d have a hell of a lot more respect for you if you were upfront about it than the ones that try to hide it.
Don’t just say “White House Official.” It was Stephen Miller. You know, the most racist and probably most dangerous person that is under Trump.
I feel like this would be a great countermeasure to AI psychosis. The way it is now you can’t really determine what methods it uses to communicate or it’s intentions so it keeps the illusion of having a conversation with a person. If you had to choose from the beginning it would break that illusion immediately. Even if you specifically want it to always be on your side there will always be the nagging feeling of “well yeah but it has to be nice to me.”
I’ll believe it when I see it. And not some bullshit ass AI generated photo that Trump will inevitably post. I mean real proof. Since when has Trump told the truth? And remember back in the day with Bush and his huge “mission accomplished” sign?
I didn’t go looking for evidence for obvious reasons, but I find reports that it’s generating CSAM plausible.
This has been my biggest concern whenever I hear of generative AI doing these things. Grok is getting the training data from somewhere and has enough of it to generate these images on demand. You can’t even get most generative AI models to show you a glass of wine filled to the brim because it has no training data for such an image but it can generate CSAM no problem.
It doesn’t take a lot of tech skill to be an exec for a tech company. My guess is they fall into the same category as those that see the AI overview on Google and think “wow this is so much better” and never second guess the results.
When you really think about it, one of the fundamental flaws with AI is that it literally cannot create anything new because it requires training data that already exists. The best it can realistically do is mix and match traits of other animals until it creates something “new.” If Star Wars was made today and entirely with AI it would not have the necessary training data to make anything even remotely close to what we got back in the 70s and would look like… This.
And this is a huge problem with pretty much all “AI” today. We say that they can “learn” and be “trained” but it’s basically just large and incoherent database that recycles the data in a way that makes sense to humans. It’s like if you were tasked with creating concept art for a movie or a game but your boss said you can’t start with a blank image and can only modify existing concept art. We already see copy/paste movies, games, and books all the time and we already don’t like it.
Nobody in the AI industry, tech, or government cares. He says all the buzzwords and gives them all what they want. What he says is basically irrelevant at this point. Until something actually happens we’re all gonna read about some sort of “gotcha” moment every day as if it makes a difference so we can have our rage moments and move on after we get our dopamine hit by calling him a moron.
Not talking shit on anyone here, I’m just tired. And I’m tired of seeing a similar headline day after day as if it changes anything.
Oh, man. There’s so much shit on a daily basis I completely forgot about that. Honestly there’s not really a point to buy the Halo campaigns again. 1 and 2 already got remade once and the rest hold up pretty well in my opinion.
(Everyone that drives, including myself): Yeah but I’m a good driver. I’m more worried about other people on the road then myself.
For real though, if I had the option to take public transportation to where I work I would take that pretty much daily. Cars are expensive and dangerous even if you are a good driver. And if my car broke down I could lose my job. The fact that so many people in car centric countries don’t even have a back up when things go wrong is abysmal.
My friend that let me borrow his copy of Half Life 2 back in the day would probably say the same thing. And he’s probably just as credible at this point. If it ain’t coming from Valve directly there’s really no reason to believe it.
They honestly should have expected this given peoples visceral reaction to anything AI. Personally, I have huge problems with AI and refuse to play most games that have used it. I think it’s poisoning every creative industry and replacing important jobs while using vague the excuse that it makes things “easier” while making the game soulless in the process. I’m willing to give Larian the benefit of the doubt simply because of their previous games being amazing, but imma wait for the reviews on this one. This game is still going to be in development for another 4 years and none of us will no what’ll happen between then and now, but for now I’ll remain hopefully optimistic
Damn straight.