Yup. One of the teachers (Director Clavel) masquerades as a pupil and asks your character for help understanding what the word means.

I didn’t know.

I had to look it up.

I’ve only come across this word once before; Pokémon Scarlet/Violet of all places.

Enshittification intensifies.

For those who like me are wondering why folk are sucking sand out of the sea in the first place - the TL;DR bot missed this bit:

"Sand and gravel makes up half of all the materials mined in the world. Globally, 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel are used every year – the equivalent of a wall 27 metres high and 27 metres wide stretching round the equator. It is the key ingredient of concrete and asphalt.

“Our entire society is built on sand, the floor of your building is probably concrete, the glass on the windows, the asphalt on roads is made of sand,” said Peduzzi. “We can’t stop doing it because we need lots of concrete for the green transition, for wind turbines and other things.”"

Why don’t we take a look at how the plastics industry handled the public? Here’s Climate Town (YouTube link).

For me there isn’t one; I tend not to ask people to do things that I wouldn’t do and as a team leader I’m aware that those around me are learning through observing me - I don’t want them to learn bad habits so actually their presence keeps me in check.

Hmmm.

Sega is a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings. Sammy is a major developer of pachinko machines.

I wonder where this is going?

The printer scene: https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8

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I thought Captcha tests were being used to train image recognition systems no?

That crab mentality (crabs in a bucket) can be hard to shake but it’s got to go. The Boondocks explained it nicely (short SFW extract from an otherwise NSFW TV programme here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipg4EL_JUyE)

Agree. Ideas, however heinous, never quite die out. But we can educate people so that they can recognise abhorrent ideology for what it is and avoid being radicalised.

Sadly the terrible ideas that lead to Nazi Germany and the horrors that came with it still abound.

Wikipedia link to NeoNazism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism

I pay no attention to post history when it comes to voting behaviour; posts are as they are. I’m not much of a downvoter; it’s upvote or nothing unless a post is straight up awful inappropriate for the community it is in.

If it’s a niche subject that I’m interested in, I look at their post history in case they’ve found discussions that I’ve missed.

If it’s a particularly good, funny, extreme or otherwise “out there” post I do look at the post history for entertainment value, learning or just morbid curiosity.

Need for Speed II SE

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE730706C5F8C6F79

Reddit admins chose to strengthen censorship and guidelines against anything that could be considered lewd.

I am not sure that this is quite correct; I got the impression that the NSFW content management / content restriction aspect was chosen to be the palatable or defensible thin end of the wedge on the road to creating increasing disparity between what was available via the official app and what could be accessed by third parties via API - my guess is that we would start to see gatekeeping of things like sport content and maybe some sponsored subreddits etc.

Reddit admins chose the path of strict regulation and higher prices, and then made the pricing for API access exorbitant.

Exactly; the impression I got was that they wanted third-party apps to be financially non-viable.

Ultimately, Reddit was trying to force traffic (and revenue) through ONLY their app

Absolutely. And by the time they killed off Apollo, I was already browsing Lemmy.

What if I tasked an LLM with replying to your comment? Say I instruct it to provide something with an agreeable tone and I pick one out of two or three drafts.

Is it still me?

I suppose that by that point it’s not much different than having a speech writer…

I think the key difference is that the words put out via printing press were still arranged the way they were by human hand.

The painting and the photograph are framed by human eyes.

The output of an “AI” seems different because it seems that there is less (of potentially no) human input. I say “seems” because that may or may not be true. If a human guides the AI with instructions, is that enough?

In my line of work, AI is coming. I see it as a friend in silico

A discussion around the extent to which painters were replaced by photographers (and professional photographers replaced by laypersons with smartphone cameras) isn’t going to quite be the same as a discussion about human illustrators being potentially replaced by “AI”.

I suspect the words “soul” and “character” (and derivatives thereof) to turn up more.

That’s it. All you had to have done to be infected was to have ever popped a disc into a PC drive. Was surprised at the time that the backlash seemed so limited.