You know, I’d argue it’s hard to stop kids from doing that privately. If they want to use some local model to undress Jessica from history class, for only their eyeballs… well, that genie is out of the bottle unless we take everyone’s computers away.

Morally, I’d argue it’s similar to using their imagination.

Now, where it crosses another line is spreading those nudes.

Or even worse, selling them.

No one should be allowed to make money off that. Not the financial processors that facilitate it if they “buy” an undressing service, not the social media platforms that advertise it to them in the first place; they should all be crushed to dust with liability. And kids should get in deep trouble if they pass it around, just like they would if they ripped Jessica’s clothes off in broad daylight.

This is what I’m getting at. It’s the platforms that are negligent, here. If some real-world platform was facilitating it in this way, the owners would be in prison.

It totally does. My sister got it to play Pokopia and Animal Crossing. I know of families that have gotten it for their kids, for similar reasons.

I’m not saying it’s a smart buy, but not everyone is a seasoned, mature gamer. If you have a decent budget, zero spare time, no experience with PCs, and your young kid is dying to play Pokopia like all their friends, a Switch 2 makes sense. As a plus, it’s not a tablet where you have to deal with straight up scam apps, nor a expensive PC where you need some technical know-how and a lot of oversight to make it safe for one’s kid.

The Xbox and PlayStation, on the other hand, have lost that niche, as they aren’t strictly needed to play Fortnite or whatever media is en vogue these days. It’s not like when I was a kid and literally my whole grade had Xboxes to play CoD and Halo.

…Wow.

“What if we took early 2000s cable, and added everything bad about YouTube and Twitch to it?”

I have a theory.

The “casual” or “mainstream” crowd, the one that used to buy CoD, FIFA, Madden, Sims and such yearly like clockwork, has transitioned to phone apps, or sports betting/fantasy.

Their attention has been robbed from consoles.

Meanwhile, “games as art” gamers that treat them more like movies are less affected, especially with the state of smartphone app stores. That segment continues to grow on PC, and maybe even consoles, but the attrition of the first group masks that for the console crowd.

I’d postit that another factor is Steam’s rising market share coming at the expense of other PC gaming storefronts. For market purposes, it effectively is PC gaming now.

I would counter:

Then why are these things okay for adults?

There is nothing normal about mass consumption of troll farms and bots. The user facing internet is broken and unhealthy, and it’s absolutely mad we pretend like it isn’t. Banning it from children is not a fix.

Middle schoolers passing around deepfakes nudes is pretty messed up, yep, but again I argue: why are they so accessible in the first place? It wouldn’t be a widespread problem as something from the depths of the internet, but it is when it’s a freaking Twitter service.

EDIT: I will admit the later is a sticky issue though, as it’s pretty easy for some random shop in a distant country to set up a deepnude storefront on a website. Even if we kill their ability to market it via ads, little shits around the world will find it and pass it around.

It needs a cultural fix, I suppose. Parents need to teach it as taboo, like they do for creepy IRL behavior, and that + not so trivial accessibility should dampen it.

Well, I bought 1 year of GLM’s coding plan for basically nothing ($50?) last year.

…I now see its many hundreds of dollars, and its API is so busy it gets throttled.

Seems like devs are catching on.

FYI, for anyone interested in this stuff, I would suggest 1 year of Xiaomi’s coding subscription.

MiMo 2.5 is fantastic, beyond what benchmarks show. It’s a genuinely useful general purpose model with better prose/world knowledge than others. It’s quite uncensored. It’s not just some deep fried agent, and it’s dirt cheap right now because no one has realized it yet (kind of like GLM 6 months ago).

And before you ask, I use local models too. I sometimes run a custom IQ3_KT of MiMo 2.5, in fact, which is how I figured out it’s good. self hosting is the way. Gestures at the forum we’re on

But for stuff where privacy isn’t so critical, it’s still nice to have a year of an unquantized, fast API of a huge model for like $50.

I agree with this.

That lines up on the technical side, too, with how LLM “intelligence” is plateauing, cost of cheaper models is decreasing, where open weights are going and such. Q3 2027 seems about when an OpenAI coding subscription makes no sense.

That being said, I’d be wary of the “Facebook effect.”

Once a service gains a huge foothold, it can deteriorate for a long time without going away. Especially with regulatory capture. And for many smartphone users, OpenAI is the only AI they know.

Well, that’s because Zuckerberg felt FOMO and fired the Llama team over one bad experiment he probably pressured them into in the first place (as Llama 4 seemed like a “quick and dirty” attempt to copy Deepseek to me).

He hired literal narcissists in their place, who gave him big promises they couldn’t possibly keep, given their background.

Meta was literally at the center of open weights/open source ML land, which is where all this will eventually settle. Between that and PyTorch, they could have been at the center of the universe.

But they aren’t, because Zuck is so unbelievably insecure.

I’m not one to blame individuals for anything; systemic failure is complex. But he actually did this to himself.

And what’s bizarre is, somehow, it will work out for him.

I’ve been criticizing Facebook since I was in high school and it was all the rage. But here we are. Zuckerberg is more “revered” than ever.

Or just some person hosing them off (which kinda looks like what they’re set up to do, given the position near the railing).

Interesting indeed.

They should have bolted the panels closer, with shrouds flush with the concrete around the edges! Or maybe add a coolant loop? Perhaps the concrete helps with that already, but is just too technical to include in this article.

I dunno! Its a good question, I have no idea how much they’d actually ice up.

Maybe they have to clear it off the dam anyway, so the cost is sort of amortized?

And/or maybe the steep angle helps?

I mention it because that concrete looks clear of ice/snow to me.

That paycheck eats into power costs, though.

ChatGPT the app is not even in the same ballpark as the Chinese ones.

OpenAI treats it almost like personalized social media. It saves everything, so it can pull all sorts of stuff into the context. A bunch of ancillary services are front-and-center. In other words, is sycophantic engagement-maxing. And what its actually doing under the hood is opaque.

The Chinese services I’ve played with are more “utilitarian.” They have some great agent harnesses and tools, but generally its presented as a utility more than a “personal world” like ChatGPT, and what it’s using/doing is crystal clear.

In other words, from a service perspective, I find this claim silly. They’re diverging, greatly.

I’d dispute it for the underlying LLM, too, but on different grounds.

I watched some, and I’m about as “pro AI” as you’ll find on Lemmy, but honestly:

• Tons of scenes are jarring. Like, right off the bat, the zoomed in scene of walking feet is broken. Heads twist around, objects float; it’s creepy. It continues all through the movie, like the scene of the airplane landing.

• All the voices are robotic and tinny.

• All the scenes are too short.

And this makes sense.

Most TTS isn’t integrated with LLMs; it’s just interpreting text, so it can’t convey any emotion.

Video models are only good at ultra short scenes and are honestly still pretty bad.

Its one strength seems to be generating consistent, attractive faces in short bursts. Which makes sense: the primary use case for these things is influencer bots, impersonating real humans, for attention farms or marketing campaigns.

…Look. AI is just not good for this format. I doubt it ever will be without some serious cinema scaffolding and more minor use of generation sprinkled in as an aid.

You’re not wrong about a lot, but I think Linux products, shipped by OEMs, are a pretty good gaming platform.

And if they target Proton anyway, the fragmentation doesn’t really matter.

A smartphone, a tablet, a MacBook Neo and such may be “maintenance free” and secure, but they are not great gaming platforms. Not everyone wants to play mobile-style games.

And this:

Without Windows you wouldn’t have Windows gaming.

This is what I’m saying. We could.

Linux could dominate Windows for that specific use. If it gets true critical mass, the Proton devs would effectively control the direction of API development.

Let’s say most devs abandon native Linux and basically everything moves to Proton. Game devs start testing on it, then targeting it. Windows as a gaming platform withers away.

A Windows API, on Linux, is now the stable gaming API. It sets the standard.

…I’m content with that future.

I mean, the irony would be delicious. What better way to dance on MS’s grave than rob their API?

Nintendo is beyond the event horizon at this point.

And that’s alright. Like, if you can afford a Switch and you get it so your family can play Pokopia and Animal Crossing, all their nonsense doesn’t really matter to your lifestyle.

…But if it does matter, “Nintendo Fans” are in waaay too deep to plausibly defend them anyway.

How much would 2-3 dual-later BDs cost?

The issue isn’t the technical possibility, but whether people are willing to pay the premium for installation media.

You know. Store agnostic game key cards would be so cool.

I’m fine with archiving downloads I’d want + keeping keycards.