realitaetsverlust

So what, then I can still dislike the company lmao. What’s the point of hating something in advance?

Yeah because why like a company that has released banger after banger after banger without any MTX or other bullshit attached to it.

Feuerfuchs ist komplett quelloffen - würde Mozilla die Entwicklung einstellen, bin ich mir relativ sicher, dass das Projekt von ner Gruppe Freiwilliger weitergeführt werden würde. Ich mach mir da gar keine so großen Sorgen um ehrlich zu sein.

Gibt doch genügend Gabeln von Feuerfuchs. Die werden diesen ganzen KI-Dreck vermutlich direkt rausschmeißen.

No

Da hilft nur verlässlicheres Merzwegwerkzeug

Nachtrag: Dieser Beitragist ausschließlich als Meme, Scherz, Satire, ironische Überzeichnung, humoristische Zuspitzung und/oder kulturelles Internet-Gekasper zu verstehen. Er ist kein Plan, kein Manifest, keine Anleitung, keine Motivation, kein Aufruf, keine Ermutigung und auch sonst in keiner denkbaren, erdenklichen, herbeifantasierten oder aus dem Kontext geprügelten Interpretation ein Aufruf zur Gewalt. Dieser Beitrag dient rein der Unterhaltung, dem kollektiven Augenrollen, dem kurzen Ausatmen durch die Nase (“hnng”) und der gepflegten Internet-Tradition, Dinge absichtlich dramatisch zu formulieren, ohne dass daraus irgendeine reale Handlung abgeleitet werden soll oder darf. Danke für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit, Ihr Verständnis, Ihre geistige Elastizität und dafür, dass wir gemeinsam so tun können, als müssten Maimais eine Bedienungsanleitung haben.

Nachtrag 2: Herr Merz, sie sind in meinen Augen ein sog. “Pimmel”

Steam Deck verified is like 90% done towards linux support

It’s not really about working harder. Before, it just wasn’t a justifiable expense investing time into ensuring proton support or even linux support because a sub 1% OS just isn’t “worth” supporting from a financial standpoint. That changed with the steamdeck and because the steamdeck is actually just a small PC with built-in controller, things that profit the deck also profit the linux ecosystem.

Honestly the steam deck was a genius move from valve.

if anybody could access a technology that helps them by magically destroying lives in another country far away, would you say the same thing?

Might be cruel to say it, but that’s called “progress”. The world needs to continue to evolve - latching to old jobs seems silly. We got rid off of blacksmiths because we don’t have the need anymore. Europe once had a huge horse stable industry spanning the entirety of central and western europe. We don’t have that anymore either, because we now have cars. We also don’t have any telegraph operators or switchboard operators (necessary for long distance communication back then), elevator operators or laundry washwomen - these jobs have all been made obsolete by technical advancements.

“It would be silly to ignore it as it makes things easier for me” seems quite short-sighted to me.

I think quite the opposite - it’s the long-sighted better option. Progress is never good for those negatively affected in the short term, but we can’t keep jobs around that aren’t really necessary anymore just for the sake of those people having a job.

And in this particular case, there’s not even any loss involved. They used their voice to train an AI, it was explicity part of the contract and they got paid for it. I honestly do not see the problem.

Don’t tell me they HAD to use genAI instead of paying those voice actors for reshoot to begin with.

The didn’t have to, but it certainly makes it easier. And I find it silly to not use a technology that makes something easier if you have it available. That’s like a farmer plowing his field by hand instead of using a tractor.

But the base of this model is to be capable of understanding how any voice works in order to copy how a specific voice work.

First of all, we had Text-To-Speech way before any kind of generative AI. In germany, we had speech synthesized announcements on railway stations for like 15 years at least. Like this here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AuIkJ_UGltI. We also had vocaloids for decades now. So it’s wrong to assume we had no idea how voices work before AI.

Second, I get your stance on “I’m not using AI because somewhere up the chain it was developed by morally ambiguous ways”, but I don’t think that makes anything better. You should rate the current use-case, not something that happened earlier in the production chain. AI in itself is not bad. If used properly, it’s an incredibly helpful tool. There’s other and much better hills to die on imo.

From https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/arc-raiders-use-of-ai-highlights-the-tension-and-confusion-over-where-machine-learning-ends-and-generative-ai-begins/

Watkins, speaking to PCGamesN, elaborated that the text-to-speech always starts with a voice actor: “It’s part of their contract that we use it [AI] for this purpose, and that allows us to do things like our ping system, where it’s capable of saying every single item name, every single location name, and compass directions. That’s how we can get that without needing to have someone come in every time we create a new item for the game.”

So no, they are not “stealing” voices. Their contracts explicity states that they are training the model. So they are getting paid, which in conclusion rules out “stealing”.

Also, from your video:

But to my understanding

Rarely ever good if a sentence starts with “To my understanding”

the AI tools Embark uses to then synthesize the rest of the performance come from models that are trained on millions of other voice actors that have been stolen from in the way that all generative AI models steal from artists.

No, that’s the whole point of models that are trained on a single voice - you do NOT use other voice actors because that would completely muddy the voice. The models are trained on a singular voice to mimic that person perfectly. Using other voices is like asking someone to cook a potato soup for you and then you toss in tomato and paprika.

AI is a tool, and a good one if it’s used properly. And this is definitely a good use case.

If you really want to make a point against AI, stop using windows as they are trying to push AI bullshit into everything.

Wenn öffentliche Gelder in Millionenhöhe verteilt werden, sollten aber alle die Möglichkeit haben, sich um diesen Auftrag zu bewerben.

Mit oder ohne leer?

I can assure you, you will never need them.

I got a USB stick with ventoy installed, got a gparted and an arch linux iso on that thing, I do use those regularly.

ytdlp funktioniert mit so ziemlich allem. Gibt ein Verzeichnis namens “Extractor”, wo hunderte Seiten aufgelistet sind:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/tree/master/yt_dlp/extractor

Catch me if you can, cunts.

Even the oldest, sickest pet will still make an effort to keep themselves alive however they can: eating, drinking water, moving out of the way of danger, etc.

That’s wrong. Especially old cats are very prone to just not eat when they’re old and sick.

Als jemand, der seit ca 15 Jahren mit chronischen Stirn- und Nebenhöhlenentzündungen zu kämpfen hat, mein tiefstes Beileid.

Sinupret Extrakt und ne Nasendusche helfen Wunder.

That isn’t entirely true. While a phone without a SIM can still listen to broadcasts, it never registers as a subscriber because It’s missing a IMSI. So no, without a SIM you are indeed invisible to carriers. It’s a bit like screaming into the woods - someone might hear you if you do that, but if he doesn’t scream back, you have no idea he’s there.

The only exception to this if you’re actively calling emergency services - in that case, your phone will attempt an emergency attach to any network it can find, which is the point where the carrier of that network could see your IMEI. However, apart from that, you are indeed completely invisible without a SIM card.

Not having a SIM-Card in your phone is like having a tank without a main gun - it drives, but it can’t really do what it’s supposed to do. I don’t think that it’s a good idea. Also, not having a SIM-Card doesn’t make you invisible - only airplane mode really does that. Without some kind of network connectivity, you have an expensive, glorified brick that can make photos, play games and lets you listen to offline music.

Also, I’m wondering what exactly you’re trying to achive. Get a private OS like graphene, don’t install any google services, have anti-tracking protection installed into the browser (or use a safe and sane browser by default) and you’re good.

Not having a SIM doesn’t do anything for you except hiding from your carrier, however, if your threat model involves you being worried by being tracked by your carrier (and by extension, the feds), you’re in really hot water already and you’re probably better off with detaching yourself from the modern world.