Sure, you could make the connection that buying the Harry Potter game directly lines She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’s pockets, but as we know, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

“Unfortunately, our CEO responded by holding meetings which framed the conversation as a personal betrayal

“But the process of machine learning versus human learning is not fundamentally different.”

See, there’s a thing for what your trying to pass off. It’s called plagiarism. Artists learn from others then grow from there, they may even add other artists in different fields, creating their own style. Artists who never progress & prefer to ape the style of others, find themselves called out by the community for…

But by that logic no copyright should exist at all since all works are inherently derivative. The line has to be drawn somewhere otherwise those with scale will always win.

The way that human artists learn to draw and the way that the Stable Diffusion algorithm generates images are fundamentally different. Modern “AI” is still incomparable to actual human intelligence; that’s just a label that researchers put on it to make it seem more advanced than it is, and you’re buying it.

Yeah, except it’s not creating unique stuff, because AI “art” is completely dependent on having pre-existing art in its database to copy from. It can’t make new ideas, it just reinterprets old ones (and the result is usually worse than the original.)

Hardspace: Shipbreaker being a brilliant game and a meta-commentary on video game unionisation and labour issues (from one of the better video game developers for how they treat their employees, down to their four-day work week) I think has to be up there as well.

I suspect that on the PS5 Returnal takes heavy advantage of the insanely fast storage and the GPU’s direct access to the SSD. While an NVMe SSD in a PC gets close, the SSD in the PS5 is still faster. To mimic the insanely fast SSD of the PS5 the game is loading more assets into RAM instead. The DirectStorage API in…

First, it is an awards show. This is the sort of thing where you probably should dress up a bit if you’re expecting to be on-stage, joke of an awards show as it might be.

not to be *that person* but the diamond back would be seen not on JC Denton (the protag from the original Deus Ex) but on Adam Jensen (the protag from human revolution)

Not sure what’s up with that, but the Deck should “sleep” just fine. I tap the top button, it does that little blinky/wave thing and sleeps. I tap it again, it’s right back to where it was in seconds (lit. 3 seconds, I just tried it).

The battery does drain in sleep mode, albeit more slowly than usual. And battery…

The problem with holding wealth as crypto is that if you divest it for actual stable currency that you can use to buy real things, and do so in any significant amount, you devalue your crypto in the process. Like, say I found a boutique soda company. And it does so well that I make a deal with Coke where they buy me…

This right here! I'm not surprised by the price of this at all, I was actually bracing for something even higher then $550.

My guess as to why she never told them it was Sauron is that 1) they would not have forged the rings if they knew that was the case, and 2) she needs the rings in order for the Elves to stay in Middle Earth, so 3) she can continue her quest to destroy Sauron. What I find interesting about that choice is that it…

Hey Kotaku, Luke, Patricia, et al.

Satire which doesn’t read as satire, isn’t.

Not sure how they can. The elves sailing to Valinor were already using the Straight Road, which shouldn’t exist until after Pharazon’s pholly (sic).

If your Old Fashioned has cherry and orange in it, it's made wrong.