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Ryan McDiarmid
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Cutscene Designer @ Riyo Games Narrative + Game Designer, Writer, Visual Artist. He/Him. Vancouver, BC. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Prev: Sky of Tides, Goodbye Volcano High, Hardspace: Shipbreaker https://ryanmcdiarmid.com/
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Another reason to not use AI is of course that it's a vector for not only corporate censorship but outright manipulation. You are prompting a system built by and designed to serve corporations' version of reality. And open models won't save you; they're distilled from the corporate models.
Among things Meta did in Brazil was have their AI bot within WhatsApp allow users to generate election poster for Flavio but deny requests to do so for Lula. When folks asked for posters for invented candidates, AI tagged them with #22 - Flavio's # - in a country where folks vote by #.
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uchikoshi pretty literally said this too in that inteview recently and idk yall. if you view your coworkers as obstacles instead of collaborators maybe you're just a bad leader
I appreciate the bar is quite low but this excerpt from an interview with Molyneux about AI is almost too on the nose. Nice anecdote about a colleague he used to respect and enjoy working with, followed by an explanation of how him and everyone like him is now expendable.
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I love having a concept artist because 99% of the time the thing the concept artist draws is going to be so much better than what I’m imagining. That’s why I’m the writer and they’re the artist. Can’t fathom thinking this way
I appreciate the bar is quite low but this excerpt from an interview with Molyneux about AI is almost too on the nose. Nice anecdote about a colleague he used to respect and enjoy working with, followed by an explanation of how him and everyone like him is now expendable.
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Vancouver Mayor Elect @ptfry.bsky.social says he has asked COPE City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social to serve as the Deputy Mayor for the foreseeable future. He's also recommending that ABC Councillor @mikeklassen.bsky.social be reappointed to the Metro Vancouver Board.
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NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...
There are some artists I really liked whose work I will simply never look at or recommend again because of this.
Still have a lot of residual irritation about artists that did the NFT grift, which at the very least, helped contribute/precluded the AI problem we have now. This gross crypto-entrepreneurial shit that I'll forever associate with their work.
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sorry, a big local knowingly ignored the rules to do something that makes the whole org look unprincipled. this is what you WANT a national committee for! a candidate who was defending israel as they bombed hospitals should not get to tout their affiliation with you!
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party endorsing a candidate is a bigger deal than saying "vote for this person" in a voting guide and has certain requirements. Raman has a terrible track record on a required policy plank that DSA-LA pointedly didn't ask her about, because they wanted to endorse as a foregone conclusion. that's BAD
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I'm not even invested in defending DSA (did not much like my local) but it's bizarre seeing a mass socmed freakout over a situation that a friend in DSA-LA already explained to me, in which it sounds like the NPC is just looking for a sensible route out of a bad situation
NEW: DSA's National Political Committee passed two resolutions today aimed at Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, beginning processes that could result in DSA-LA being forced to rescind its endorsement of her this weekend and/or Raman herself being expelled from DSA by January.
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Nithya Raman has worked with Zionist organizations, has stated her belief that Israel has a right to exist, and has condemned Palestinian resistance. Regardless of one's personal feelings about compromise and electoralism, it is absurd for an antizionist socialist organization to endorse her.
NEW: DSA's National Political Committee passed two resolutions today aimed at Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, beginning processes that could result in DSA-LA being forced to rescind its endorsement of her this weekend and/or Raman herself being expelled from DSA by January.
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Like don’t get me wrong I’d love to see the Indian Act replaced by something written & defined directly by First Nations people but —given this government has repeatedly treated Indigenous consultation as an obstacle/nuisance to their national designs— I don’t think that’s what this is…
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"unable to complain" is just so, SO telling, to me
Reading this Famitsu interview Uchikoshi did and it seems that the reason the Crash Keys game was canceled was because *Uchikoshi* wanted to use AI, not the publisher. This snippet is driving me nuts. Makes all the posturing with Hundred Line read extremely shallow.
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China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
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Many Americans reacting to this with "I hope this doesn't happen to us in November" and like, no you dumb fucks he's saying this shit because he wants to give YOUR GOVERNMENT cover to interfere further.
Flávio Bolsonaro calls for Brazil's election results to be "annulled" after a loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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