I‘m pretty sure Discord is already selling data of every single chat message to everyone. Especially secret services for prosecution. If they make it too shitty people will just migrate somewhere else and nothing of value was lost. It does not have the strong network effect of a Xitter or Youtube.

Or why they exist in the first place. Takes a village to make Epstein Island.

Going by the claims their CEOs make you could swap them and things would progress as usual. Or regress, rather.

Every accusation is a confession. Tech CEOs are filthy scum.

If all those stories from China from the last decade are true then science has already moved to China long ago. But it hasn‘t. Really makes you think, doesn‘t it?

The overwhelming majority of their so called breakthroughs are just media fluff pieces though. Their sources are more and more often AI generated studies and their supposed advancements aren‘t going anywhere a lot of the time. By the time people start asking questions and want to know more details they have already prepared another story for you to be impressed by. It‘s shock and awe.

You’re not really thinking this through, are you? Your old hardware will deteriorate eventually. And believe me keeping an Oldtimer up running becomes increasingly expensive with fewer and fewer spare parts.

The way I see it, if you want to play video games you will have to be happy with cloud gaming slop or buy some obscure GPUs, SSDs and RAM from Chinese companies you have never heard of. The days of Nvidia and AMD for end consumer products are soon over. They don‘t care about us. I hate this development but it is what it is.

It is. Which is why I‘m baffled they didn’t go public already.

I genuinely do not know how that would change anything. It‘s already monetized thoroughly. They will just add even more ad campaign quests and stuff which you can ignore.

That‘s what I keep arguing for years. It‘s not so different from printing out frames of a movie, then scanning them again and claim it‘s a completely new art piece. Everything has been altered so much it‘s completely different. However it‘s still very much recognizable with extremely little personal expression involved.

Oh, but you chose the paper and the printer, so it‘s definitely your completely unique work, right? No, of course not.

AI works pretty much the same. You can tell what protected material the LLM was fed by the output of a given prompt. The theft already happened when the model was trained and it‘s not that hard to prove, really.

AI companies get away with the biggest heist in human history by being overwhelming, not by being something completely new and unregulated. Those things are already regulated but being ignored. They have big tech and therefore politics to back them up, but definitely not the written law in any country that protects intellectual property.

You see I specified civilized countries to exclude the USA.

This stuff will be for cloud gaming only. So unless you have a really funky phone with giant fans that won‘t be the case. The data centers that are making your energy bill explode will do the heavy lifting.

I‘m not a car guy but I would like to add it also looks absolutely awful. Like so many cars from recent years.

GTA5 let you skip sections that were too hard for you (or too badly designed) and I am sure so did many other games. From a game design perspective this is nothing new whatsoever and won‘t change the medium in any way.

How is this gigantic website even legal and still online? In the civilized world, I mean.

Crazy people still get downvoted in Lemmy for reminding everyone that Nuclear energy is the most expensive form of generating power while solar, wind, and water are the cheapest.

I still wouldn‘t willingly enter a Chinese car or a Tesla.

So much for „laws that apply in the real world apply in the digital world too.“ They‘re proposing a lawless playground for corporations that will definitely get abused to damage industries, people, and attack democracy as a whole.

Hackers not being able to do frontend isn‘t surprising if you ever talked about usability with an IT person. Their deeper knowledge of the matter prevents them from thinking like an average user. They legitimately can‘t do it properly to save their lives.