Not a new low, it’s an old low applied in new ways.

Also the free cupholder era.

I agree that even if the continent turns into a nuclear wasteland, there will still be people shouting this kind of thing pointlessly into the void.

You’re right. It’s an opinion and only as important as the one having the opinion decides it to be.

That’s kinda the problem. We’re already careless with the things we do ourselves. It can’t be helped, nobody’s perfect. But once we start delegating tasks, we lose the direct experience. Priorities shift, attention moves to something else and the chance of carelessness rises because it’s no longer a problem we have to concern ourselves with.

Meanwhile, the LLM “learns”. What it “learns”, nobody knows because it does so mechanically. There’s zero understanding.
It keeps “learning” every time it’s fed something, so you don’t have a static program that does what it’s told. Instead it’s a “living” program that applies what it “learns”. And that makes it unpredictable in the long run.

This turns the user into a glorified middle manager who has to hover over their employee and make sure they did their job as they should have. And how many middle managers do you know with that kind of dedication, that isn’t spiteful at its core?

The push against this is that the people depending on it to do the work become less dependable themselves. And unless you’re an independent developer without a profit driven publisher breathing down your neck, this will be used in all the wrong ways as a standard instead of it being the exception.

Oh, so that’s why Epic’s Easy anticheat keeps having trouble. Microsoft might be using it as a trial run.

Love and hate are subjective opinions, so of course they’re unfair.

And so are upvotes/downvotes.

You’re expecting it to be used responsibly when we ourselves in general are very lacking in that department.

This here is a very good example of the actual use that will happen. A rush job to meet unrealistic deadlines. And that’s what will happen as is the norm.

“like it or not, gen AI is becoming an invaluable tool for developers”…

…who wish to take a dump on their work.

Not many do, which is probably why they keep shuffling around the ones already in place.

But also

Asians, and not just Japanese people, are known for their beautiful, smooth skin, so it ends up looking like CG.

They’re not useless. They’re just there as a representative for shareholders and their job is to wring out the greatest value out of the company.

That means picking out the best moments to invest, hire more assets, fire the disposables etc.

They’re the gamblers using other people’s money to make more money.

It’s a bit more complicated than that. Current society is flawed as it requires conformity in individuals to serve it when instead it should serve the individual.

The base flaw is authority. It requires the individual to act in a specific way that is consistent with its needs and that will suppress other inclinations. Added to that is nature itself, which doesn’t give a shit about anyone and cares not if any needs are met in any way, at all. Which is further compounded by the simple fact that not every divergence plays well with all the others. So conflict will eventually become unavoidable regardless of the development path.

A complicated part is that not every divergence is good for the individual’s development or survival. So it then becomes a matter of balance in regards to personal freedom in acting as such even though it might be harmful to oneself or others, having the necessary support that allows an individual to make an informed choice on whether to maintain that freedom or suppress it and living with the consequences of the choice and finally, whether to fight against nature’s own form of ruthless culling in order to preserve and develop all the variances that might emerge or allow it to run wild.

It can get very sketchy once you dive into the gritty details and every aspect of the possible ramifications when trying to find a reasonable approach that takes everyone into account.

Whoosh.

Security theater without actual security is the thing putting everyone at risk.

I enjoy watching them put on a play of The Emperor’s New Clothes. If that’s what they wish to show off, why not applaud?

There’s a difference between being ok with acts of sabotage and expressing schadenfreude when witnessing such a high level of obliviousness.

I mean, it’s painfully obvious to most people that acts of sabotage ought to be expected in our current times and have been happening for some years now even. Yet to be so unprepared for this kind of thing that any random person can just waltz into your military base and have a field day with your aircrafts, it deserves to be shamed. It’s humiliating and rightfully so.

Everyone expected better and if this is the status in every EU country currently at risk, then making fun of this kind of pure stupidity is very much warranted. Otherwise, we’re truly and absolutely fucked in case of an actual conflict.

“Oh no! Some random civilians exposed our utter incompetence to the world. Best call them terrorists before anyone gets any ideas for actual sabotage!”

Tl;dr: EA fucked it up.

Longer Tl;dr: EA wanted that sweet live service money rain. Bioware said it’s not their thing. EA wanted it anyway. It didn’t work. Resignations, change of direction, unreasonable expectations and dumbass deadlines. Siblings fight, favoured child wins. Release, fail in sales, kick out the lesser twin. Remain dumb as hell.

I wish them luck.

Who’ll clean the holodecks then?