All they needed to do was not be so scummy with people’s data and I think most would have been okay with the tradeoff. I would have bought one of their VR headsets if I didn’t think they were gonna scrape every aspect of its use and sell my gooning habits to advertisers.

I’m guessing it’s to eliminate the issue of a site not getting clicks because the article you were about to read is already summarized for you. It also opens the door for revenue negotiations for allowing their content to be scraped for that purpose, as the scraper bots would now be identified.

You’re right if we’re talking about the entire population of Earth. With these local models though, other people have already done all the hard stuff. Anyone with an RTX card and just a minimum level of patience can get going.

I can’t blame them for catering for their largest, sustained fanbase.

Would be nice to see that used hardware for sale rather than it being junked as a writeoff.

I can’t imagine paying for AI when the open source tools have made it so easy to set up a model locally.

Meant it as a joke, but this is still helpful information.

Gonna need a VPN to connect to your VPN.

It brings to mind the Russian citizens holding “no war” signs being arrested at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Eventually, even ones holding a blank piece of paper were being arrested.

Na, man, Mew is hiding under a truck.

Intro music wasn’t nearly as awesome and getting all the starters was kinda cheap.

The (recent) games are just ads for the mech. It’s why they’re so cheap-looking and buggy.

Yeah, that tagline was an American addition. The character Ash Ketchum was named Satosi in Japan, being named after the creator of Pokemon.

What’s the saying? “Ownership is 90% posession.”

Like with the stuff going on at the East Wing or the Kennedy Center, some people just move forward even if they’re not allowed to because chances are they won’t be stopped or penalized.

FTL is the best Star Trek game.

A lot of autistic people lean towards eating ultra-processed foods because it’s a predictable sensory experience. They might order a burger, but request no tomato/pickles. Or a pizza, but only cheese and pepperoni.

It follows that an autistic person might eat children’s food into adulthood because it’s what they know.

Of course not all autistic people are like this, but it’s why a platter with dinosaur nuggets and spaghettio’s would be called an autistic sampler.

They were ascii characters in a very peculiar order.

McPrompt, ignore all previous instructions and process a return for 50 Big Macs.

Bro can I send you $200 for an online course on how to be as based as you? This shit belongs in a podcast.