Notices by Sin Vega (sinvega@mastodon.social)

has polyamory gone too far

After decades filled with children and teenagers manufacturing billions of pointless essays and exam practice sessions in place of education, all to make the dead frog's leg twitch, we've invented a process that cuts out the middleman.

There's a barely-satire story to be written about a world where the children are removed from schools entirely, because the bots can generate the pointless essays more cheaply, which is all that's necessary to produce the numbers needed to get more funding

It's not the teachers' fault, obviously, it's neoliberalism's for turning education into an industry that can be measured and tested with targets and league tables, an attitude that's directly responsible for most of the failures of our public services.

But it's partly why people are finding the "AI" chatbots so convincing - they produce the same kind of unnatural but vaguely proper-sounding garbage that we've been trained to mistake for good all our lives.

these chatbots don't write well, but they do a good statistical analysis to figure out how to get to "this is the kind of sentence that meets the established metric". Teachers are right to be worried, because this is exactly how they've been training children to write for decades instead of actually teaching them.

Since everyone is obsessed with the "ai" chatbots, here is my thought about how depressingly likely they are to bleed into many, many things they shouldn't.

jesus, the absolute piss people will spew out of their mouths on youtube when talking about old games. BACK WHEN GAMES HIT YOUR SOUL AND NOT YOUR WALLET!!! yeah man, the shooty game made and sold by a corporation 20 years ago is so different to the shooty game made and sold by the same corporation today!!!

"games today are all lootboxes and dlc and it's all just about money!!! not like in - " (rustling papers) "2005!"

if you don't like lootboxes then stop playing the 3% of games that have them. I haven't even played a game that has the fucking things in since 2019, and even that was for work

this is your own goddamn fault. stop buying the stupid shit you hate. There are thousands of other games and the only reason you think anything that isn't Corporate Raytrace Shootman 3000 is bad is because you listen to stupid people and youtube shills