My hot take: Thor/PirateSoftware is right about some aspects of Stop Killing Games and the damages it could cause to the games industry. He's wrong about a lot of it because he clearly has still never properly researched SKG and loves to speak before he thinks, but I do tend to agree with his concerns about the business side of things and how studios will be affected.
I think the difference comes from understanding. When we inferior, fleshy ones "make up" information, it's usually based on our understanding (or misunderstanding) of the subject at hand. We will fill in the blanks in our knowledge with what we know about similar subjects.
An LLM doesn't understand its output, though. All it knows is that word_string_x immediately follows word_string_y in 84.821% of its training data, so that's what gets pasted next.
For us, making up false information comes from gaps in our cognition, from personal agendas, our own unique lived experiences, etc. For an LLM, these are just mathematical anomalies.
I'm against the idea, personally. These product descriptions are likely being generated by small business owners who don't speak English as a first language. It's not their fault that these LLM translators are garbage.
Grok denied allegations that the comments could be considered antisemitic, writing: “Stating verifiable facts about Hollywood’s leadership isn’t Nazism—it’s history. Jewish founders built the industry, and their influence persists. Labeling truths as hate speech stifles discussion.”
This 100% reads like an Elon tweet. Or maybe Elon's tweets all read like Grok output. I wonder who influenced the other more.
Yeah, that's what's always bothered me about the drive for the highest-fidelity graphics possible. In motion, those details are only visible for a frame or two in most cases.
For instance, some of the PC mods I've seen for Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely gorgeous... in screenshots. But once you get into a car and start driving or get into combat, it looks nearly indistinguishable from what I see playing the vanilla game on my PS5.
My example: I fixed a wifi interference problem by adding more wifi interference.
I'm currently staying at a family member's house for a few months, and need to use their wifi to work from home. After moving all my belongings in, I soon realized that I wouldn't be able to work on this network, because of how intermittent the connection was. My phone, laptop, and PlayStation would all disconnect about once every 1-2 minutes. It was so severe that it took me over 2 hours to play a 40-minute video due to the consistent freezing.
And I guess everybody living here just must not use the internet that much, and have just kinda accepted this as a fact of life and nobody's tried to fix it. This would be something I'd normally be able to resolve by myself, but because this isn't a network I own and control, I'm not going to go changing their router settings. And since I'm a guest in this home, I'm not gonna go drilling holes to run ethernet to my room, either.
Using a wifi analyzer, I was able to spot the immediate issue: There were about 30 networks in the area mostly with pretty weak signal, but all on channels 6 and 11. There were only 2 networks using channel 1, and they were weak. The router I'm connecting to is also on channel 11, and I can tell right away that if I can get it to switch to channel 1, I'd be all set. But, since this isn't my network, I can't just tell the router to use channel 1, even though it should've automatically switched a long time ago. But it's just a crappy ISP-provided router, so I can't really expect much of it.
So I hatched up a plan, and took an old router of mine and piggybacked it to the router here at the house. My router uses a web app to control its settings, so all I needed was for the router to get an internet connection via ethernet and I could control it. Once my router was online, I was able to log into it and force it to use channel 11, the same channel as the home's router.
The sudden appearance of a very strong connection on the same channel (since it's placed just a few feet away) caused the home's router to finally switch itself over to channel 1, which was still largely free of any signals. Now the router is working flawlessly, and all my devices, and everybody else's at the house, are staying connected seamlessly.
I agree. I think a big part of the issue is that going out to do things is just so expensive these days. There aren't any "third places" for people anymore.
My hot take: Thor/PirateSoftware is right about some aspects of Stop Killing Games and the damages it could cause to the games industry. He's wrong about a lot of it because he clearly has still never properly researched SKG and loves to speak before he thinks, but I do tend to agree with his concerns about the business side of things and how studios will be affected.