Daggerfall is the prequel to Skyrim. I'd never played it until seeing it for free on Steam recently.

Guess from now on;

many apologies will read like: "Sorry my Asisstant-Intelligence made a mistake!" "Sorry my AI ate my homework!"

and replies like: "That sounds really tough. It's OK to feel sorry - here are 2 options for you to solve..."

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Background: https://lemmy.world/post/45119134

So essentially Meta imagines a world, in which people don't even have to write their own messages to family and friends anymore?

Like we are not talking useless emails read by a bot here!

In two recent interviews, Andy Weir stated his support for AI. The first is in this interview with LA Review of Books, in which he says: "It’s only a matter of time before AI is able to write more entertaining, compelling, and exciting stories than any human."

"Train an AI on all the great works of literature, all the great books that people have loved, and it’ll figure out the commonalities and put together stories that are really awesome, in the same way that it can make art that’s really pretty when properly prompted."

He then said "I’m going to be out of my job eventually." When the interview challenges him on this, asking "isn’t a lot of what people enjoy about art the community experience and the person behind it? The human creator?" he responded:

"Take a tool like Photoshop. It can do all sorts of really cool things, but nobody wants to talk to the program. Nobody wants to talk to Google SketchUp about its process in rendering 3D models. People accept that there are tools that do this."

You can read the full interview here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/andy-weir-project-hail-mary-novel-film-interview/

In a second interview with Tom Bilyeu on YouTube, he went even further. It's a long interview, but he says that AI can already make great art and that human graphic artists will go away and be replaced by people who can "refine" AI generated art, that AI is just a tool and that it shouldn't be ridiculed, and that AI will be creating whole movies in the future that's better than what humans can make.

You can watch that interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrdVpioZ5dU

Pretty abhorrent stuff, in my opinion. I enjoyed The Martian and Project Hail Mary, but coming out so in favor of art as to say it's going to be better than human created art is just gross. And to not care that it's "trained" on stealing work is ridiculous.

I need to add to this that blocking is not the answer. Actively down vote if your instance allows. The practices discussed here passively harm artists.

Didn't play much this week. Just a bit of Pokémon Pokopia and Xuan Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains. No significant progress in either of them.

No Tom Clancy's The Division this week, but there shouldn't be much stuff left in main campaign so will try to focus on it a bit to finish it soon.

Have been thinking about starting Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed on PS this weekend. Got it as a PS+ game recently and it has been on my wishlist for a while, not to mention my nostalgia for Mickey Mouse. Depends on how much play time I get this weekend though.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13809164

Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can't count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with handicap features, and also to find Easter eggs. Speaking of Easter eggs, you'd lose a number of hours exploring every nook and cranny finding them!

I hope I'm posting in the right community, and that someone can help me out.

For the past couple days, my Samsung Galaxy S22 phone has started playing the default Verizon notification sound about once per day. I haven't nailed down the exact time, but it seems to happen in the morning.

The weird part(s)? My phone is on vibrate, and no notification seems to correspond to it. My phone is sitting on the desk, and I hear the sound, so I check my notifications, but nothing new shows up. I check my Notification Log app, and it doesn't show any new notifications. I check Settings > Notifications > Advanced Settings > Notification History, and it doesn't show anything either.

Today, I've changed my default notification ringtone to see if the new sound is triggered the next time. I'll update if/when that happens.

I'm a little concerned that the unexpected behavior could be malware or something, but I'm hoping something is just bugged.

Additional info that could be relevant: a couple months ago, I had to install the Libre Free app, and it was constantly making notification sounds, despite my phone being on vibrate. The unattributed notification sounds didn't start until after I stopped using the Libre app. I haven't uninstalled it yet, but I'm definitely considering it as part of my troubleshooting.

Ideally, I'd like to get to the bottom of this without a major reset of my phone. Does anyone have any tips/ideas?

I built this little website to make it easier to see the new releases for a handful of popular turnip driver repositories.

Please do share and let me know how this can be improved!

It may look like play money – but you can actually use it to buy things. At least within a special region in Bavaria, Germany. The "Chiemgauer" is supposed to strengthen the local economy and cut CO2 emissions at the same time. Does it work?