https://feddit.uk/post/33636940

This affects anyone who relies on American payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal), so is very much a global issue.

Enid Blyton is really trying to keep her stories up-to-date with modern times

Spidermәn

That wasn’t intended as a correction. Mastered is definitely correct. Tamed is a bit more poetic maybe.

I saw some early demos and hoped that AI could bring about a revolution in on-the-fly procedural generated content for gaming to do things that would be literally impossible by other methods. But no, instead it has been used to replace artists to produce poor-quality pre-generated static content and I couldn’t be more disappointed.

Tamed

As I remember it was utter crap. Fell off at the slightest touch and terrible battery life.

Yeah, I don’t think I would be playing the game if crashing had real-world consequences.

No joke I think this is genuinely why conspiracy theories are so appealing

Yes

…And I wouldn’t be surprised if they are using AI to generate the artist backstory and album art.

Probably an instance of Spotify “Ghost Artists”. Spotify pays unknown musicians small amounts to record generic-sounding tracks and sign over all royalties to Spotify.

I would hope that any competent person can see that this can not end well.

Google must know that they are not a monopoly in search.

Number of search queries is such a bad metric for quality of your product. If your search is trash then the user is going to need more queries to get a satisfactory answer. That is, until they stop using your service of course.

I just want games where the devs get to release the game they wanted to make without the studio enshittification microtransactions, always-online single player and so on tagged on to it.