Isn't it shocking how easy it is to provide a simple, highly effective tool that doesn't require doxxing yourself or your children? It could even go further by providing tools that allow parental control over the device. It's a very simple problem to solve, and become a fascist country is not required.

Parents have been the monitoring tool for ages. Nothing changes in the digital age.

That's always been a terrible comparison. Those places don't create an easily-replicatable copy of your ID that can easily be stolen and easily used for things like identity theft. They look at your ID, verify your age, and that's the end of it.

These online age verification laws are blatantly unconstitutional, horribly dangerous, and not thought out at all.

Copyrights generally last for the life of the author plus 70 years.

When we drive into the office, we are still working remotely. None of the servers I work with are even in the same building as my office. A few of them aren't even on the same side of town as my office. Fighting traffic to arrive at a building from which I work remotely is asinine at best, followed closely by horrendously stupid.

You can have Otisburg, but I want Marina Del Lex.

I can go either way. I don't put nearly as much emphasis on graphics as I do on whether the game is fun to play. I expect CGI realism in movies, but not in games. A $5 indie game with an interesting, fun, and unique hook is far more preferable to me than an irrationally expensive ($50+) AAA game with awesome graphics and shitty game play.

Some people are complaining that DLSS5 makes all the graphics look the same, but my complaint is that all the modern AAA games are all the same in game play. They all ran their course in the early 2000s, but they still get pumped out of the assembly line at a record pace. It seems to me that the focus on realistic graphics is because game studios have nothing new to offer.

Just today, I was on the Godot forums looking at a posting by someone looking for "dumb, silly ideas" for a new game. The community members threw out several off-beat ideas that sounded quirky, fun, and totally out of the box. I hope some of them get made, as they could be a welcome deviation from the cookie-cutter productions we see it most popular games.

That's the I.S./I.T. director and network manager where I work.

That certainly explains why A.I. researchers were able to get one of the LLMs to emit almost the entirety of a book by prompting it with a few paragraphs. Oh wait. No it doesn't.

You are making the common, now-classic, mistake of thinking that LLMs learn rather than copy verbatim. If you "learned" (memorized) Harry Potter, then regurgitate it for profit, that is most definitely a derivative work. That is how LLMs work, despite LLM-sellers' protestations to the contrary. They are storage/retrieval copyright infringement engines.

What Sam and cohorts are really thinking is that the AI gravy train is wobbling head-first into disaster, and they want the government to bail them out before the whole thing goes off the rails.

No it isn't. That's just the excuse they use because there are enough gullible people to believe the "think of the children" bullshit. Age verification is a power play to weaken the citizenry. It's corrupt government overreach.

For now. The noose will tighten as time goes on.

You are incredibly ignorant and naive if you think it will stop there. These are foot-in-the door steps. It's typical first steps of a repressive regime.

It seems that Mozilla still has no clue why they're getting their asses handed to them by Chrome. They need to stop fucking with the inconsequentials, and spend more time making their browser work. I have a few sites that just don't work in Firefox, but work fine in Chrome.