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  • kadup@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•AI needs to stop
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    2 days ago

    I see ai actually in anything other than promo material.

    My brother have you been in a deep slumber for the past two years? Windows is filled with AI, so is Microsoft Office, Google search results, Gmail and Docs, the Android assistant was replaced by Gemini, Canva is filled with AI, all Adobe products have AI image generation, Samsung’s S24 line is exactly the same as the S23 but with AI slapped in, you go to a subway station and half of the ads are made with AI with atrocious teeth, fast food drive thru machines are now AI, pretty much any online customer support is an embedded version of ChatGPT. Entire news sites and blogs have the posts generated by AI - things got so bad YouTube videos with millions of views in the true crime genre were telling fake stories created by AI, with images and narration generated by AI, and the comments were mostly AI. LinkedIn is also pretty much entirely ran by ChatGPT, even the profile pictures are using these “pay 5 bucks and upload a picture from your webcam and we’ll generate a photo of you wearing a suit in a corporate background” services.

    And don’t get me started on Reddit, if you mention ANY software now you get about 10 immediate replies from bots that say some generic thing like “That’s a great question, I like using insert website AI for this as it works really well and is super affordable!”.

    You’re either extremely bad at noticing AI usage - in which case god bless your soul but for the love of all that’s holy please start trying to recognize it - or you haven’t been online in a long time.

  • kadup@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”English
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    7 days ago

    you value Steam’s honesty

    Both are multi-millionaire if not billionaire companies. There’s no way to attribute virtues like “honesty” to corporate entities.

    But GOG is a much worse store than Steam, lacking features Steam had a decade ago and, most importantly, being loudly indifferent to how the games work on platforms other than Windows. Any gaming thread gets flooded by GOG fans talking about how we should support them anyway, because they’re great and anti-DRM… Except I’m telling you they aren’t, if their own games are at risk of being pirated they add DRM, if somebody wants to publish games protected by DRM on their platform they allow it. That’s not anti-DRM.

    Steam’s DRM is disabled by default, and Valve is aware it’s trivially easy to bypass and said multiple times they don’t care. That’s just as “anti-DRM” as GOG if we go by their actions, rather than their marketing claims.

    Don’t fall for marketing claims when they themselves are using DRM, it’s ridiculous.

  • kadup@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”English
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    7 days ago

    strong DRM stance

    They have allowed content protected by DRM into their store four times already, which is not surprising, given GOG is owned by CD Projekt Red who included DRM into their own DLC for Cyberpunk, including on GOG. That’s not “strong” in any sense of the word.

    So in other words, they sell you the “feel good” anti-DRM narrative but quickly look the other way when it’s good for business. At that point, might as well purchase on Steam, where DRM is common but optional and Valve actually cares about making the games platform-agnostic, easy to backup, easy to share, etc.

    EDIT: cool downvotes, doesn’t change the fact that GOG provides software protected by DRM on their “strongly anti-DRM platform”. There is no amount of downvotes in this world that can change this reality.