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Risking some downvotes here, but just like most stories, not every character in the Bible is supposed to be a paragon of morality. Just like in any story, people do bad things.
Obviously this post is somewhat satirical, but dunking on something like this just reminds me of book banning arguments, and that general lack of literary comprehension. There's better things to take issue with.
I do really think they fumbled the bag here with "Welcome Tour". Could've been a cool pack in, would've been reminiscent of Wii Sports, and apparently it's a decent quality package that probably would've been well received, and helped build hype for the console.
Instead, they charged a pittance for it. No way are they getting many sales, and they gave us an easy narrative that they're greedy and have lost their way since Reggie and the Wii, just as they launch a hella expensive console with big price increases and don't need that kind of PR.
They turned an easy PR win that might have helped move units into a PR disaster in a touchy time, for chump change next to their profit margins on the console + games like Mario Kart World. Also lost a chance to advertise and show off what the new hardware can really do, the whole thing looks like a big advertisement anyways. Hell, it even looks pretty neat, but there's not a snowballs chance in hell of me paying for it.
Mhm, of course, critical thinking in general is absolutely important, although I take some issue with describing looking for artifacts as "vague hunches". Fake photos have existed for ages, and we've found consistent ways to spot and identify them, such as checking shadows, the directionality of light in a scene, the fringes of detailed objects, black levels and highlights, and even advanced techniques like bokeh and motion blur. You don't see many people casting doubt on the validity of old pictures with Trump and Epstein together, for example, despite the long existence of photoshop and advanced VFX. Hell, even this image could have been photoshopped, and you're relying on your eyes to catch the evidence of that if that were the case.
The techniques I've outlined here aren't likely to become irrelevant in the next 5+ years, given they're based on how the underlying technology works, similar to how LLMs aren't likely to 100% stop hallucinating any time soon. More than that, I actually think there's a lot less incentive to work these minor kinks out than something like LLM hallucination, because these images already fool 99% of people, and who knows how much additional processing power it would take to run this at a resolution where you could get something like flawless tufts of grass, in a field that's already struggling to make a profit given the high costs of generating this output. And if/when these techniques become invalid, I'll put in the effort to learn new ones, as it's worthwhile to be able to quickly and easily identify fakes.
As much as I wholeheartedly agree that we need to think critically and evaluate things based on facts, we live in a world where the U.S. President was posting AI videos of Obama just a couple weeks ago. He may be an idiot who is being obviously manipulative, but it's naive to think we won't eventually get bad actors like him who try to manipulate narratives like that with current events, where we can't rely on simply fact-checking history, or that someone might weave a lie that doesn't have obvious logical gaps, and we need some kind of technique to verify images to settle the inevitable future "he said, she said" debates. The only real alternative is to just never trust a new photo again, because we can't 100% prove anything new hasn't been doctored.
We've survived in a world with fake imagery for decades now, I don't think we need to roll over and accept AI as unbeatable just because it fakes things differently, or because it might hypothetically improve at hiding itself in the future.
Anyway, rant over, you're right, critical thinking is paramount, but being able to clearly spot fakes is a super useful skill to add to that kit, even if it can't 100% confirm an image as real. I believe these are useful tools to have, which is why I took the time to point them out despite the image already having been proven as not AI by others dating it before I got here.
True, someone else did some reverse image searching before I got here, but I think it's an important skill to develop without relying on dating the image, as that will only work for so long, and there will likely be more important things than memes that will need to be proven/disproven in the future. A reverse image search probably won't help us with the next political scandal, for example. It's a pretty good backup to have when it applies though, nice that it proves me correct here.
Haha, that's just because I used a bullet point list. No em dashes though, at the very least.
I'd recommend you get some practice identifying and proving AI generated images. I agree this has a bit of that "look", but in this case I'm quite certain it's just repeated image compression/a cheap camera. Here's the major details I looked at after seeing your comment:
- The grass at the bottom left. AI is frequently sloppy with little details and straight lines, usually the ones in the background. In this case, you can look at any blade of grass and follow it, and its path makes sense. The same happens with the lines in the tiles, the water stains, etc.
- The birthmark on the large brown dog. In this case, this is a set of three photos, which gives us an easy way to spot AI. AI generated images start from random noise, so you'd never get the exact same birthmark, consistent across different angles, from a prompt like "large brown dog with white birthmark on chest". Spotting a change in the birthmark, or a detail like it, would be a dead giveaway, but I can't spot any.
- There are other tricks as well, such as looking for strange variations in contrast and exposure from the underlying noise, but those are more difficult to explain in text. Corridor Digital has some good videos demonstrating it with visual examples if you're interested, but suffice to say I don't pick up on that here either.
It's useful to be able to prove or disprove your suspicions, as well as to be able to back them up with something as simple as "this is AI generated, just look at the grass". Hope this helps!
I'll give two answers to this question, from the perspective of a Christian reading the Old Testament/Torah.
Wouldn't it be effective to convince followers of a religion if a religion could accurately predict a scientific phenomenon before its followers have the means of discovering it?
This is interpretative, but if there is a God, he seems big on free will. Why give humanity the option to sin in the garden at all? Why not just reveal himself in the sky each morning? Why even bother creating a universe that can be explained without him? There's an abundance of easy ways God could make himself irrefutable, and yet in the Bible he makes us "in His image", and offers us choices like that tree in the garden.
Furthermore, why even create us to sin in the first place? My interpretation of the Torah is that God is big on relationship, and that free will is a key part of that. Just like a human relationship based on a love potion is kinda creepy, and a pale imitation of something real, it seems like God doesn't want to be irrefutable.
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I think that's the more relevant answer to your question, but I'll also give the only example that comes to mind of the Bible seemingly imparting "scientific knowledge", which is to look at the laws around "cleanliness". Someone else already mentioned some "unclean" animals, but if you read more, they pretty consistently seem like good advice around bacteria. Some examples of times you need to "purify" (essentially take a bath) that seem like common sense now:
- being around dead bodies
- touching blood that's not yours
- having your period
- etc.
Reading this as a modern person aware of germs, many of these "laws" seem like they would have kept the death rate of faithful Jews a lot lower than their neighbours in that day.
Interesting. I've been using XeSS lately, after seeing better results in DOOM TDA, but now I'm curious if this is worth using instead, and figuring out an FSR replacer on Bazzite to use this.
Exactly what I've done. Set my settings to hide NSFW, blocked most of the "soft" communities like hot girls and moe anime girls and whatever else (blocking the lemmynsfw.com instance is a great place to start), and I use All frequently. That's how I've found all the communities I've subscribed to, but frankly, my /all feed is small enough that I usually see all my subscribed communities anyway.
Hard to blame them. Proton is dang impressive, and if it works, it works.
At this point, my assumption whenever I see heavy handed RTO orders like this, is that you're seeing disguised layoffs.
Don't want to spook the stock market, but still "need" to cut people to show profit "growth" this quarter? Just be such a massive ass to your employees that a ton of them quit. It's that easy.
Bold to assume this would even work. What on earth would "location tracking" even look like? Something that trusts the OS for a location? I imagine it could easily be tricked. An AirTag soldered to the board? Trivially removable.
Something like this sounds very ineffective, and would be devastating to Nvidia's brand in global markets like China, of course they're against it. It sounds like a stupid idea, frankly.
My guess here is that it isn't Denuvo, it just seems like it's not designed for Open World games. These issues all also exist on console, where Denuvo isn't a problem (although it certainly isn't helping either). Dragon's Dogma 2 exhibited a lot of the same poor performance and stuttering nearly a year before MH Wilds came out.
By then, I assume the game was too far into development to change course, with it's ambitious design and a lot of AI that has to always run in each area adding to the engine issues.
Honestly.... I'm not sure how much better they can make it, given how much time they've had to work on it, and that DD2 never really escaped its issues too. It feels like RE Engine was just... fundamentally not designed for this, no matter how great an engine it is in its niche.
Wait... they're doing rebate checks? I thought these tariffs were supposed to magically cover the overwhelming budget deficits? And how exactly will they do that when it's being distributed as free money?
Literally trying to bribe their terrible ideas into being popular, while blowing the deficit out even further. 600$ will finally convince Americans their economy is doing well and isn't barrelling towards utter catastrophe at mach speeds. Astounding work.
Sure, but I think this is similar to the problem of social media being addicting. This kind of thing makes users feel good, and therefore makes companies more money.
I don't expect the major AI companies to self regulate here, and I don't expect LLMs to ever find a magical line of being sycophantic enough to make lots of money while never encouraging a user about anything unethical, nor do I want to see their definition of "unethical" become the universal one.
Damn, that's an extra level of weird here. Like... fair enough if you need to confirm you messed up the order and aren't getting scammed, but you don't need to trash the dang thing, for absolutely zero profit.
I feel like the worst case of leaving the pizza with you is free advertising when you share that free bonus pizza.
Not too uncommon to bring it with you to show them, an instinct to prove it's wrong and you're not lying. Although most places will ask you if you want to keep both, rather than just immediately tossing it.
Honestly, I'm a bit relieved at the current situation, because I wasn't nearly as certain he was done. With incidents like January 6th, all the claims of voter fraud, his clear abuse of systems like presidential pardons and executive orders, I really thought Trump had a genuine chance of overturning the 2-term limit and twisting the US into a bona fide dictatorship.
I'm relieved to see his astounding incompetence finally reaping results in his polling numbers again and again, because it's breaking the spell he seemed to have over half the country. Hell, it's even breaking the allure of fascism in the elections of other countries at this point. His gross incompetence during this presidency is single-handedly moving the whole world a little more to the left.
Yeah, the vision of "transferable NFT cosmetics" always struck me as ridiculous, for exactly this reason.
Even if some hypothetical NFT spec did allow a cosmetic to be fully stored in the NFT, such that a game could implement a standard API and support NFTs from different studios, what would the specs on that item be? Is the CoD rifle gonna look exactly like the Fortnite rifle so the skins can work in each? Is the Lamborghini from Forza gonna move exactly like one from Gran Turismo?
Each game has its own engine, its own balancing to worry about, you can't just blindly drag and drop assets like this, and nobody is gonna keep up with bespoke support for an arbitrary number of assets while more are minted everyday.
Definitely one of those "promises" that's just based on sounding cool, without any actual substance behind it, at least not when it comes to anything unique to NFTs.
"Good" also doesn't mean flawless at all times. Characters can make mistakes and still be "good" without you having to justify everything they've done as perfect.
An even better example is King David, the one and only "man after God's own heart" taking another man's wife while he was fighting David's war, and then arranging his death to cover it up after he got her pregnant.
Arguing that that, or this, is advice for the reader, or meant as an example of something you should do, is a comical straw man. A narrative doesn't usually stop to explicitly label "good" and "bad" for us like children. There's loads to complain about with popular far-right Christianity, why would we invent ridiculous arguments that are easy to debunk and make us look like we don't have good literary comprehension?