Not Google, but my favorite was “ethnaically anabigaus” appearing randomly on generated pictures.

You must connect with the road, every km or so stop and hug the asphalt.

The paper was right. I read that and I’m dying right now.

Dude.

You could at least look at what you’re replying to before jumping in and going full outrage mode. I didn’t even say anything about what I thought of the validity of that experiment.

Keep putting yourself forward to defend the poor, misjudged car company belonging to a crazy asshole.

They obviously pre-cut the wall, probably for safety reasons, and they were like, let’s make it a silly cartoon impact hole while we’re at it.

Good job.

One AI model, apparently.

I like how it thinks it is likely from a videogame, but somehow, it’s absolutely certain it has the character’s name.

And then a bunch of facts about famous videogame character Lemmy Kilmister.

Only yesterday, I searched for a very simple figure, the number of public service agents in a specific administrative region. This is, obviously, public information. There is a government site where you can get it. However I didn’t know the exact site, so I searched for it on Google.

Of course, AI summary shows up first, and gives me a confident answer, accurately mirroring my exact request. However the number seems way too low to me, so I go check the first actual search result, the aforementioned official site. Google’s shitty assistant took a sentence about a subgroup of agents, and presented it as the total. The real number was clearly given before, and was about 4 times that.

This is just a tidbit of information any human with the source would have identified in a second. How the hell are we supposed to trust AI for complex stuff after that?

French, I’ve tried bépo because AZERTY (the French standard since forever) seriously sucks. AZERTY is missing lots of diacritics and corresponding capital letters (including very common ones), lots of opening and closing characters are inexplicably separated, … And the same bullshit as QWERTY, no thought behind where alphabetical characters should be beyond 19th century’s “the mechanical arms of my typewriter should not cross too much”.

However I couldn’t commit to bépo and gave up. AZERTY is too ingrained in my mind at this point.

That paper lantern monster design feels familiar. I’m wondering if I’ve seen that asset somewhere else…

8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8’s tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).

Wii comes very close though. It’s the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.

I just think of 8 as “we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better”.

I had to suffer through someone’s wedding that had an impressive but out of tune pipe organ. Shame because the musician seemed talented, and at least while it lasted I didn’t have to hear about how great the guy in the sky is.

You may be familiar with the old management game Theme Hospital. Two Point Hospital was a modern take on that, and they extended the concept to university campus and now museum.

They present Muse as a “generative AI model of a videogame” that you’d train to “learn about older games”. Which seems a very bold claim to begin with.

If this is anything like that, this is not a way to preserve the original game, it’s an attempt at reproducing (parts of?) it. And since generative AI is involved, there is no reason to believe it will be a faithful recreation.

Of course this could all be marketing bullshit, and for all we know their AI is just another coding assistant AI that they might use to create remakes. And then they’ll only be as faithful as the team making it can or will do it, as has always been the case with remakes.

Anyway, remaking is not preserving.

Edit : was a bit slow trying to make my point, seeing now your edit. Yep, that’s exactly what I got from this too.

You’ve convinced me brother. Buying 3 Lady Macbeth NFTs for my metaverse Web 3.0 gatcha play-to-earn game right now.

Guys, it’s okay. Sure, it sounds bad that we somehow let the complete works of William Shakespeare disappear from the planet. But we have a new data center with a billion monkeys on typewriters. Give them some time, and they’re bound to stumble upon that old stuff eventually.

Edit : love that one guy who found a couple people critical of one of the most ridiculous claim about generative AI yet and decided to downvote everyone without a word.

Thing is, this is absolutely not what they did.

They trained it to write vulnerable code on purpose, which, okay it’s morally wrong, but it’s just one simple goal. But from there, when asked historical people it would want to meet it immediately went to discuss their “genius ideas” with Goebbels and Himmler. It also suddenly became ridiculously sexist and murder-prone.

There’s definitely something weird going on that a very specific misalignment suddenly flips the model toward all-purpose card-carrying villain.

Saw my switch version update out of nowhere yesterday, and I was wondering what it was about.

A bunch of cool QoL, fixes and visual stuff. Doesn’t look like there’s anything revolutionary in there, but it’s great they pushed those improvements on all versions.

the world almost ground to a halt

The US. “The world”, at least the part that’s not religious zealots, looked at that, went like “oh, surprise boob” and maybe giggled a bit.

All that for a new haircut? Doesn’t even look like that out of place of a style change to me.

I mean, look at what Castlevania Judgment did to its characters back then if you want terrible redesign. Most of them were unrecognizable. Simon, Maria and Death became Death Note cosplayers, others like Grant and Carmilla went full SoulCalibur knock-off.

Along with bad anime trope personality graft for half of them.