I don’t think we should be treating AI as something outside of being a tool.

People should do whatever they want with the tool, and all the things people are already stopped from doing due to law, should be what they’re stopped from doing with AI, as it is any other tool.

The fact any significant amount blame democrats really shows you just how powerful republican propoganda and mindshare is right now.

This is why people who are gung ho about AI policing need to slow their role.

If they got their way, what they don’t realize is that it’s actually what the big AI companies have wanted and been begging for all along.

They want AI to stay centralized and impossible to enter as a field.

This is why they want to lose copyright battles eventually such that only they will have the funds to actually afford to make usable AI things in the future (this of course is referring to the types of AI that require training material of that variety).

What that means is there will be no competitive open source self hostable options and we’d all be stuck sharing all our information through the servers of 3 USA companies or 2 Chinese companies while paying out the ass to do so.

What we actually want is sanity, where its the end product that is evaluated against copy right.

For a company selling AI services, you could argue that this is service itself maybe, but then what of an open source model? Is it delivering a service?

I think it should be as it is. If you make something that violates copyright, then you get challenged, not your tools.

This is so out of pocket. It’s great.

Do they not have any police?

Not really. They use a vague weasel word to basically say “we will, whenever we feel like, no promises”.

The phase they used was “as required by market needs in the maintenance mode branch”.

That could mean anything, any time.

You cannot build a budget rig on Intel and Nvidia parts, there simply aren’t making good price to performance products.

That’s gotta be a very specific regional thing for you, because the B580 has had many periods of being the budget goto for new cards being sold.

Then, for the 5060TI 16GB, which is sorta budget now, like low to mid budget, competes against the 9060XT when you consider… things like this, wider DLSS coverage, greater chance of game devs optimizing for it and total system price.

I do also kinda see only 16gb+ GPUs as viable… and I guess the 12gb 5070 if a gun was put to my head.

At the budget end further than that though, its gotta be used.

(Machine translated) New features, bug fixes and game optimizations will continue to be delivered as required by market needs in the maintenance mode branch.

A very PR soft backtrack as opposed to the backtrack they needed to have.

This literally promises nothing and weasle words them out of having to do anything differrent.

What are market needs? Very vague and basically allows for anything.

I’m not sure there is any PR spin that would make this decision less hated.

Given that we are a social species, that sounds like a terrible way to get literally anything you want accomplished by anyone else.

More than that, it absolutely sounds like you hate people given the vitriol you spat at that person who clearly agrees with you a majority of the way.

You also, even if you don’t care about social norms clearly understand the difference between not, for instance, participating in a silly tradition, and being unnecessarily and unhelpfully rude and aggressive.

Truly AMD shooting its own legs off in the space.

NVidia has 9+ years of game ready support on some cards (I believe 11 in some special cases) and they’re expecting people to take the compromises of being low in market share (so game devs are less likely to optimize for their cards), having a feature delay vs NVidia cards on average, and then to top it all off, having less than half the length of support than their alternatives.

They do this all and expect people to be happy with that for a $50 discount.

It almost feels like they’re calling their future customers stupid for believing that their cards will last.

Its crazy because NVidia has so much bad blood with consumers, and yet AMD seems almost by contract forced to cut is own legs out from under it any time it would be convenient for NVidia.

You know when a product is super old and so it only gets the bare minimum needed for the driver not to have security problems or major flaws? That, except the products aren’t super old in this case, hence the anger.

It means that a card you could have bought yesterday will not be getting the typical game specific driver updates that fix common issues that game devs don’t fix.

Is this system of drivers fixing game bugs logical? Its kinda not, but its just been how graphics and games have evolved to being over the years, which potentially means that some new games may have graphical glitches and crashing problems that it would be purely up to the developers to fix. More than that, there would also likely be optimization problems drivers sometimes fix, that these drivers will not.

This might not actually be the end of the world on NVidia cards because they have such significant market share, but for AMD cards with very small marketshare by comparison its a big problemm, because devs won’t be as incentivised to do so. AMD cards are pretty much at linux levels of adoption and we can see how poor support is there, so while the cards will still run games for sure because this is not like being a different OS, they probably just will run worse.

Personally I feel that the hate for AI is misplaced (mostly, as I do get there is a lot of nuance regarding peoples feelings on training sourcing etc). Partially because its such a wide catch all term, and then mostly, by far, because all of the problems with AI are actually just problems with the underlying crony capitalism in charge of its development right now.

Every problem like AI “lacking empathy” is down to the people using it not caring to keep it out of places where it fails to accomplish such goals or where they are explicitly using it to strip people of their humanity; something that inherently lacks empathy.

If you take away the horrible business motivations etc, I think its pretty undeniable AI is and will be a great technology for a lot of purposes and not for a lot of the ones its used for now (this continued idea that all UI can be replaced such that programmers wont be needed for specific apps and other such uses).

Obviously we can’t just separate that but I think its important to think about especially regarding regulation. That’s because I believe that big AI currently is practically begging to be regulated such that the moat to create useful AI becomes so large that no useful open source general purpose AI tools can exist without corporate backing. That’s I think one of their end goals along with making it far more expensive to become a competitor.

That being said this is a little bit out of hand in that this was about software in general, and regarding that and AI, I do believe empathy can be included, and built correctly, a computer system could have a lot more empathy than most human beings who typically only have meaningful empathy towards people they personally empathize with in their actions, which leads to awful systemic discrimination reinforcing practices.

As for the flock example, I think its almost certain they got in with some backroom deals, and in a more fair world… where those still exist somehow, the police department would have a contract with some sort of stipulations regarding what happens with false identifications. The police officers also would not be traumatizing people over stolen property in the first place.

That is all to say, I think that often when software is blamed, what should actually be blamed is the business goals that lead to the creation of that software and the people behind them. The software is after all automation of the will of the owners.

bud this is all tldr.

There are 2 sides that you can vote for in American politics.

That’s not being unable to see nuance, that’s being able to see facts.

You seem stuck on making a point that is irrelevant and increasingly more incorrect.

I can’t care to engage with someone who isn’t reading what I’m saying. It would just be talking past each other.

Ok, at this point I’ve explained the hell out of my point and can only conclude you are a troll. You’ve made 0 effort to figure out what I am saying, so clearly the strawman you started with is the hill you want to go to die on.

The fact you call this conversation “on par with brainless maga trolls” is more evidence you just intended to rile me up while completely knowing exactly what threat I am talking about as people are being disappeared off of streets and hate crimes are being covered up. Clearly people should wait for the historians to have a perspective on this as the regime increasingly cancels studies on societal problems.

I don’t have the energy for that.

Now can we stop being so mean to those poor heartless megacorp voting shareholders?

Probably get bloated from the beans

I get it.

folks out there, who do these things performatively especially online to gain some social points or something

I actually think that you thinking this is a problem, is a large part of the problem. People refuse to recognize that other people might just have higher or different standards than them, and think it must be in bad faith. This leads to people who generally agree being fizzled out by all the other people they feel are speaking in bad faith (and there are many that are trying to support non leftist opinions tbf), and leads to leftists ending up being unable to realize that they are allies even if they don’t perfectly align. TBF its kinda hard to see someone shitting on you (as they think you’re a baddie with the fizzled out feather light triggers), but we kinda have to try to figure out how to do that, because otherwise, being a shitty human being is just a winning formula when they have a much easier time forming alliances because they can base their entire identities around hating some people for no good reason.

Yup. Thats the type of chart I would call a rolling sales chart. Amazon does the same, as does Bestbuy.

Many retailers do frankly.

Waiting a week can often save you 25-30%, and the high price would have been labelled a sale just the same as the low price, so no one would be any wiser to this without tracking the price.

You’ve absolutely built a strawman. You obviously understand the new risks we’re talking about given the subject of the article and the context, but yet you continue to imply this is about traditional gun statistics and not the ever increasing and looming threat of violence from neighbors who support the regime.