Woah, Slashdot royalty. May I have your autograph?

Spoken like someone who mostly posts dumb shit

Reading through your posts, I can't tell if it's a bit. You don't work in tech anymore right?

Wake me up when they make a good game with it.

I use ChatGPT to help with Unity C# scripts, it's pretty helpful.
I'm not even against the idea of models being used to generate maps and assets - procedural generation in games has existed for a while, why not extend that to the assets as well?

That being said the generation of art assets using models that were trained on other people's assets is a completely separate conversation - a dubious one at that if the models were trained on anything other than 'Free Use' artwork (Royalty Free & Creative Commons) like what can be found on Pixabay or Sketchfab.

Really impressive how you've managed to average -1 on every comment, didn't even know that was possible

Art is made beautiful by it's misstrokes

DISCLAIMER: I haven't played classic.
But from what I've seen it's a totally different game, with the exception of it being a team-based class-based shooter.

Visually it was way ahead of its time, and I'd argue it served as the inspiration for hero shooters like Overwatch, including the cartoonish artstyle. Fleshed out characters with a ton of personality, fun physics, and silly but polished gameplay.

TF Classic was very gritty by comparison, closer to Counter Strike 1.6 with custom classes than TF2.

I once got a fake letter threatening a lawsuit for having downloaded some movie.

Turns out the letter was a scam. Pretty predatory, this kind of stuff.

Frankly if given the choice between an ISP with a history of monitoring user traffic and one that doesn't, it's pretty obvious who to pick.

That being said unfortunately some areas are only covered by a single ISP, which frankly should be illegal in the US considering how many times congress has given various ISPs millions of dollars (that we paid in taxes) to rollout new infra and they just haven't.
If lobbying were made illegal, we'd have more options and this kind of overstep would be a thing of the past.
Oh well, corruption.

Every day someone makes a 4 hour video about how Team Fortress is bad now and how it used to be good, or how valve doesn't care about it or the community.
It's like Valve just said "Oh yeah? Here ya go. If you have a problem why don't you go fix it."
Personally I love Team Fortress 2 - it's a flawless masterpiece. This is just wonderful for anyone who wants to preserve this work of art, anyone who wants to make a mod or make their own version of it. It's even great news for people who have been discovering neat little bugs and quirks to this day. Now we'll know how it all works.

What people seem to be missing is that these models will often produce exact replicas of an artists work - signature and all.

It's not transformative. It's the equivalent of me going to your website, copying it verbatim, and then releasing it as my own.

Some people are completely against copyright, but frankly those people should tell that to Sony, Nintendo, Apple... and any other organization that has claimed rights to intellectual property.

As a software pirate, I get it. Copyright laws are annoying, especially if you're poor... but at that point we need to discuss the root cause of these debates, and it isn't AI or generative text - it's a debate about patents.

So DeepSeek turns out to be less filtered when it comes to writing malware, bomb-making instructions and other "sensitive" content, so OpenAI follows suit with ChatGPT?

Frankly I'm pleased with this as I think search engines shouldn't limit research topics based on perceived moral ambiguity, but it's also interesting to see the reversal in policy.

Great, now let me download older versions of software without having had them 10 years ago.

For example, if you buy an older Macbook that's limited to an older version of MacOS, why can I only download the older Garageband if my account has had that particular version before? It makes no sense, it's free, why should I have to find some ancient account in order to download a working version of the software?

Arbitrary restrictions are lame

What's really cool is if you do, you'll be rewarded the same way you would if you learned spanish. There's tons of jobs for bilingual people, and fortunately you don't have to compete with the xenophobic people who voted you downward.

Really seems like a win-win for anyone who isn't racist.

I love firefox. They just added a PDF editor

Good question, but I think the answer is probably simple:

Mud and silt have been around as long as organic life, thus our bodies have a natural way of processing them. Plastic is a new, man-made creation that our bodies have not adapted to deal with (break down, get rid of).

I also have a silly question about this experiment in particular: how do we know that installing a 'tiny window' wasn't the cause of the memory loss, reductions in motor skills and lower endurance? I'm mostly joking, but I can't imagine it's good for the mice.