That feel when I did a massive upgrade just before the increase hit and bought “good-as-new” second-hand 64 GiB of 6000MHz DDR5 for a mere 80 euros. That feel.

The prices were starting to go up a week after

And why is “spicey” the supposed problem here? People can edit these characters to make them say and do whatever so why are sexual things the limit when I can make fake footage of someone I know where that person says anything I want or does some other random thing?

People will honestly also just adapt and as the technology becomes common place learn to not trust anything. The same was true with pictures when Photoshop came out. See a picture of George Bush in a bikini somewhere? People just didn't trust it and felt it was probably edited.

They don't all say that. There are certainly some who do but there are just as many who say there is no harm and it's all just their own personal moralism and the ones who say it don't have much to back up the idea that it's bad and can't even answer what concretely would happen. And yes, there are studies that show negative associations with pornography and expectations but there is no evidence isn't worse than any other fiction. — That's in general the issue with these “harm” studies. One can show “harm” of pretty much any activity whatsoever by just cherry picking the harmful parts. The object is to show that it is more harmful than many things already allowed and common.

There are very few places where this is the case and it's illegal for children to watch pornography. For one: they very often aren't even considered criminally culpable before their teens so nothing is illegal for them. Where do you live that you believe this is illegal because I'm going to say it probably isn't and you misunderstood something.

Perhap, but you can say the same thing about every piece of fiction ever and certainly religion. Religion is always the big reason why I don't trust any “think of the children” rhetoric. No one who sits idly by as children are allowed not only into religion, but allowed to be forced into religion can claim to “care about the children”. If you want to protect children, the first step is to make it illegal for anyone to attend any religious meeting before say the age of 12. If you believe people under 12 can't view pornography because it messes with them, they should certainly not be allowed to participate in religion, and especially not be forced to against their will which is quite common.

Again, really the only places where it's illegal for children to view pornography are the places where it's generally illegal to view it altogether and children are not generally considered criminally culpable to begin with.

Why can't they watch porn though? What's going to happen? Is it going to scar them, give them brain cancer? The only argument I can see is that it will give them an unrealistic view of sex, which is true, but that can be raised against every single piece of fiction, especially fiction that is explicitly targeting children which tends to give them an entirely inaccurate view of how things work.

Okay, apparently children makes one care more about silly moralisms with no scientifically provable harm than companies doing blatant bait and switch.

Explains why people who have children are statistically less educated, contribute less to the economy and are less intelligent. But then again correlation does not equal causation and I have the distinct impression that it's rather the inability to think for oneself that both leads to all the silly moralisms and the reproduction because “society says so”.

Well, this simply isn't a concern for text so it's still absolutely bizarre we live in a world where OpenAI fears this more than it fears the potential problems of that they practice blatant bait and switch.

And to be honest, I think that even for images and videos it's bizarre that OpenAI fears it more than the blatant bait-and-switch thing and that apparently legal watchdogs hold it more responsible for that and not the user that entered the specific prompt than again the blatent bait-and-switch. I'm sorry but if you got a 5 day free preview of “chatGPT plus” and then as a basis of that buy it for a month for whatever price and what “ChatGPT plus” is then changes after you already paid then that is an issue. You should be able to expect to get what you saw in the 5 day preview for the rest of the month. — I definitely feel that companies should fear this more than generating blatant child pornography with an image generator. In fact, I feel companies should face absolutely zero consequences for the latter and that that should all, 100% be on the user who entered the promt that would obviously generate it. Adobe also faces absolutely zero consequences for the fact that Photoshop can be used to shop illegal child porn together, this is all 100% on the person using it to do that.

These tests are extremely unreliable, especially for the tone that's demanded of Wikipedia. At least when I tried some of them a while back they heavily flagged about any formal article such as things taken from Wikipedia, news articles and 1950s legal texts as artificially generated.

Also, since apparently the only required criterion is that a human being still verify and check the final result,. this wouldn't do anything. It doesn't ban automatically generated content at all, it only requires that it not be uploaded without any double checking by a human which is a fairly low bar of course.

I honestly think it's bizarre that these companies have more to fear legally and in terms of backslash in letting a chatbot write down erotic texts than they do about the fact that they constantly alter how models work and how the censorship filter works mid-month after people have already paid based on the free trial.

We apparently live in a world where a bot writing down sexy stories is a bigger concern than blatant bait-and-switch.

That's just not how the market and competition works. If they can spend less money on it then the price of the games will go down for the simple reason that another company will start underbidding them for a similar game to get more customers and then they have no choice but to follow suit.

The price of AAA games has been relatively consistent for a long time when accounted for inflation, but obviously each generation comes with more sophisticated graphics technology and if they couldn't use new technology to achieve that then it would just cost more time to make and that would inflate the price.

Graphics quality of games has been going up and up if only because more advanced hardware that can run it keeps popping up. It's silly to say games used to look better.

And that is a terrible policy because no competing subreddit can ever hope to compete against the one that claims the obvious name for a subject. No one is going to check whether “r/knitting2” exists for knitting so whoever claims it first gets to dictate the policy around any specific subject. In some cases they're reasonable, in other cases they were terrible.

These kinds of comments always read like time and money is somehow no object.

If they take such shortcuts then that just means your game is cheaper or it has more content elsewhere. They're not just going to sit around doing nothing while still getting paid with whatever time they saved of course.

But you can avoid it easily and just make them stubs and have it all return a default nonsense value. This is in general the issue I feel with a lot of this “only privacy” talk; the “legacy” far more serious things all those people seemingly don't care about which they could easily mitigate. It's like politicians caring about cannabis when a significant portion of their country habitually partakes in alcohol, including themselves.

Like politicians caring about cookies and how they're treated while being perfectly fine that name and address are required to be handed over all the time where it shouldn't. That's absurd. The threat level doesn't even begin to compare. But the latter is “legacy” or something.

Apparently already contains “realName”, and “location”. I happen to think both of which are worse than date of birth but all this is obviously in many databases that feature me.

No, this is actually why I like this place more than Reddit.

It's this nice sweet spot in between Reddit and 4chan in terms of civility. It's not 4chan where people just insult each other to insult each other, but it's not Reddit either where it's an massive hugbox and everything needs to be cushioned.