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- Found this interesting: Google unveils Playground: an AI platform that lets anyone create games without coding
It's already been existing for many years now. It's called "Steam search", where you can find an infinite number of sloppy, broken and ugly games pretending to be AAA games, by entering only few words — no coding required.
so, they want to make soulless games now? i thought EA did that already
- Upvoted a comment on Microsoft redesigns its Copilot desktop app with new Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs
Microsoft: Our products are great, it's the user that are stupid, so let's redesign them once again to annoy the current users without getting new ones... It's the tenth redesign now, it evolved to a mess. why nobody still doesn't like our products?
- Replied to a comment / review on Discord rolls out global age verification despite user backlash; most won't need to verify
- Replied to a comment / review on Discord rolls out global age verification despite user backlash; most won't need to verify
This is one of those "solutions" that companies try to do first: "I will comply with your freaking regulations, but I will not make it really difficult for not-brain-dead people to circumvent it." Real problems will happen when regulators in some countries will feel it is not enough.
That "using automated account signals like account age and server participation" made me remember a follow up message by the Discord team after the backlash generated because the global age verification they anounced in february. Discord already has a general way to classify users based on the data they already have but came with a "fail safe" if that puts a user in the wrong category. I wonder how many kids will get their hands on parents cards to pay for registration as an adult account.
This is an old model. It was called Gaming Archades. You put a quarter, and you play the game until you lose. The only difference is that Microsoft will give you a few free hours a month.
- Found this interesting: Firefox for iOS now has a built-in ad blocker, but it won't block every ad you see
- Replied to a comment / review on Apple TV and Apple One US monthly and annual subscription prices rise again
- Found this interesting: Mullvad VPN introduces smarter & more flexible multihop modes for improved privacy control
- Replied to a comment / review on OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plugin for Apple Messages that can basically text on your behalf
- Replied to a comment / review on OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plugin for Apple Messages that can basically text on your behalf
Oh my god. Instead of chatting with your friends, you can have your AI bot chat with their AI bot. Now you don't have to deal with the annoyance of talking to the people in your life!
- Replied to a comment / review on OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plugin for Apple Messages that can basically text on your behalf
- Found this interesting: Firefox for iOS now has an experimental native ad blocker, but it's off by default
Smart. Avoiding lawsuits while providing service.
- Replied to a comment / review on OpenAI launches a Computer History feature that tracks user activity across apps and sites
- Found this interesting: OpenAI launches a Computer History feature that tracks user activity across apps and sites
- Replied to a comment / review on OpenAI launches a Computer History feature that tracks user activity across apps and sites
It's opt-in, so at least only stupid ones will use it.
- Found this interesting: Spotify to introduce AI Persona badges for artists with AI-generated identities
There is also a simple way to see if someone is AI on Spotify. A lot of accounts use some stock images as avatars on pageheaders. That's a perfect giveaway. The live artist wants to show his face or full body. He wants to be recognized and unique. AI wants to blend in and not attract too much attention to its identity. It uses something common, none-descript. Of course, a fully AI-generated avatar is a giveaway too.
- Replied to a comment / review on Anthropic will start embedding invisible watermarks in text and images generated by Claude