I think it’s highly contextual.

• Like, let’s take Lemmy posts. LLMs are useless because the whole point is to affect the people you chat with, right? LLMs have no memory. So there is a philosophical difference even if comments/posts are identical.

• …Now let’s take game dev. I think if a system generates the creator’s intent… does it matter what the system is. Isn’t it better if the system is more frugal, so they can use precious resources for other components and not go in debt?

• TV? Could inevitably lead to horrendous corporate slop, a “race to the bottom.” OR it could be a killer production tool for indie makers to break the shackles of their corporate master. Realistically, the former is more likely at the moment.

• News? I mean… Accurate journalism needs a lot of human connection/trust, and LLM news is just asking to be abused. I think it’s academically interesting, but utterly catastrophic in the real world we live in, kinda like cryptocurrency.

One can wobble about all sorts of content. Novels, fan fiction, help videos, school material, counseling, information reference, research, and advertising, the big one.

…But I think it’s really hard to generalize.

‘AI’ has to be looked at a la carte, and engineered for very specific applications. Sometimes it is indistinguishable, or mind as well be. But trying to generalize it as a “magic lamp” like tech bros, or the bane of existence like their polar opposites, is what’s making it so gross and toxic now.

And I am drawing a hard distinction with actual artificial intelligence. As a tinkerer who has done some work in the space too… Franky, current AI architectures have precisely nothing to do with AGI. Training transformers models with glorified linear regression is just not the path; Sam Altman is full of shit, and the whole research space knows it.

What’s the content?

Like, TV?

News?

Math problems? Lemmy posts?

Elon is more aligned with Turkey’s politics though, right?

Tim Cook is gay. I don’t think there’s much pretense of him liking this one bit.

Devils advocate:

…It’s kinda strategic for Apple to “stay.”

Let’s say they say no, and get kicked out of China. You think the Chinese tech giants are going to put up a fight about dating apps?

Seems better to Apple to keep a finger in the pie and do what they can get away with, if only for the LGBTQ folks.

Another example I used to point to is Steam which got away with sneaking a lot of culture into China under the government’s nose. And it’s cause they didn’t make loud trouble.

…Okay.

Then why are these apps being removed?

To be fair, they are too big.

They just have too many employees and costs. The way they’re organized, they’re stuck with gigantic budget, milquetoast, broad appeal games just to attempt sales they need to break even, with all the inefficiency that comes at that team size… unless they fire a ton of people and split up the rest.

My observation over the past decade is that “medium size” is the game dev sweet spot. Think Coffee Stain, Obsidian, and so on.

I hate to break it to you, but people on Lemmy call for the death of politicians and their families all the tame.

It’s… icky.

It’s made me really close to leaving the whole platform, and the .world admin’s sentiment against it is about the only thing that stopped me (even if they don’t enforce it very strictly).

Playing devil’s advocate, I can kind of see the theory.

People will happily get slow boiled, like a lobster in a pot.

But if an explosion happens right in front of their face, it gets them to pay attention (and maybe react before they’re fully boiled).

It’s just the culture.

All my older relatives, all highly educated and secular/scientific, got like this watching Fox News. Any mention of climate change in a documentary or something triggers some really crude, dismissive joke because that’s the pattern.

The key being FSR 3.

If it was FSR 4, that’d much better looking at high res.

I mean, we already have Gaming PC OEMs and mini PCs. It’d be awesome if they start shipping SteamOS, but they can’t sell hardware at a near loss + make up for it with Steam sales + guarantee hardware support in software like Valve can.

And most don’t have the volume for “semi custom” AMD SKUs.

EDIT: The only entity I could see doing this is Intel, selling an Arc Steam Machine. That would be awesome, actually.

Whooaaaa, slow down.

It’s going to be awesome, but there’s no way Valve and spin up the production volume of a PlayStation or Xbox that fast. It will probably take a few more Steam Machines to get there.

Uh oh.

…Isn’t this a bit ironic, considering GTA’s/RDR’s writing of (loosely) “plain folk’s plights?”

It’d be like CDPR going all in on DRM/corpo surveillance tech. And NO, CDPR Bot, that was not a suggestion!

That’s putting it a bit abrasively, but there’s a nugget of truth there.

An anecdote: I saw some (drug?) commercial where the wife orders pizza because the Dad’s a bumbling idiot for even attempting to use the kitchen. Everything about the way it was presented just screamed… ‘50s sexism,’ basically?

I answered elsewhere.

But a friendly warning, OP: you will get downvotes for using too many emojiis on Lemmy, heh.

Minecraft is gorgeous with a few mods. Or, more practically, a good modpack.

It’s also quite complex (with a good modpack).

And building requires a lot of mouse precision. And other kids their age are probably playing it. TBH among all these answers, it’s the obvious choice, if you ask me.

Aimlabs is quite literally a mouse precision training game. It has different ‘tests’ and courses for different skills.

Very effective in short bursts, but your kids might find it boring after awhile.

That’s basically all large fandom/hobby subs now, in my experience.

And yeah, don’t forget the shallow memes or fear of arbitrary banning.

…Actually I largely agree, and I’m a CachyOS Linux acolyte.

I have my Windows partition stripped down to the bone. Not even Defender’s active, but once it’s like that it does just work for games, media and such. The partition is ancient.

…It would be hellishly inconvenient for dev stuff though. You are massively overselling Windows there.

Same with Firefox. I’ve had some weird issues with it on Linux and Windows, especially with hardware/graphics acceleration.