I totally agree. However, when looking at the bigger picture I think Microsoft wouldn’t want to be so dependend on Epic after spending so much money on their game service, Bethesda and Activision/Blizzard. I don’t expect them to actively consider switching engines and I don’t think it would solve all that many problems anyway.
On top of all of this, those efforts to tame and control outputs from the developer side could be abused to simply appease investors or totalitarian markets. So we might see a Disneyfication like we‘re seeing on other platforms like Youtube with their horrendous filters, spawning ridiculous terms like „unlifed“. And just imagine the level of censorship we‘d see if they ever try to get into the Chinese market because clearly, the ‚non‘ in non-profit is becoming more and more silent.
Es sind leider oft Tankies, die wirklich an Chinas Überlegenheit glauben. Das Fediverse ist halt leider immer noch stark überrannt mit denen.
Uff. Da führst du jetzt leider genau das Argument fort, was ich am Anfang schon schwierig fand. Du machst es dir viel zu einfach nur Jordan Peterson zu nehmen und anhand dessen zu sagen, dass Kritiker ja keine richtigen Argumente hätten. Peterson machst du hier zu deinem Strohmann. Man kann ja schon den Kommentaren hier entnehmen, dass die „Sprache formt Denken“ Hypothese sich großer Beliebtheit erfreut und man darüber scheinbar doch reden muss.
Sprache ist etwas gesellschaftliches, nichts was verordnet werden kann. Und genau das Argument machen die Rechten. Sie wehren sich gegen die vermeintliche Verordnung der Sprache und machen das zum Kulturkampf.
Fairerweise muss man sagen, dass diese Verordnung nicht ganz so vermeintlich ist, sondern sehr explizit von einigen Leuten im linken spektrum der Politik gefordert wird und sich sehr oft genau dagegen der widerstand erhebt. Und da muss man ein bisschen die Spreu vom Weizen trennen, denn das halten bei weitem nicht alle LGBT+ Leute für eine gute Idee oder zumindest nicht für tauglich. Es ist eben keine zentral gesteuerte Agenda die verfolgt wird, sondern unzähle Menschen mit unzähligen Meinungen die unterschiedlich ausgeprägt sind. Da sind auch einige mehr, andere aber widerrum gar nicht politisch aktiv.
Und wie du schon erwähntest, geht es am Ende allen ja darum,
ihr eigenes Leben leben zu können ohne bevormundet zu werden.
Na ja und dass Jordan Peterson ein Saftsack ist, ist kein Geheimnis. Gesunde Kritik an der Woke-Bewegung, wie du sie hier beschreibst gibt es aber durchaus von beispielsweise Slavoj Zizek. Da verrennen sich durchaus viele Linke in ihrem Eifer eine vermeintlich bessere Welt zu schaffen.
I think you misunderstand something. The same thing many AI enthusiasts and critics often choose to not understand. Regenerative AIs aren‘t just born from plain code and they don’t just imitate. They use a ton of data as reference points. It’s literally in the name of the technology.
You could claim „well maybe they used different voices and mixed them together“ but that is highly unlikely, given how much of a wild west approach most regenerative AI services have. it‘s more likely they used protected property here in a way it was not intended to be used. In which case SJ does indeed have a legal case here.
As if Spotify wasn‘t bordering bloatware territory already. Just give me a music subscription service without the dozenth of functions I will never use or „recommendations“ that are clearly just paid ads and don‘t fit my taste at all.
Sounds like absolute garbage.
Youtube premium is a very short sighted band-aid solution. Because the more people sign up for it early, the more expensive and/or less convenient it will become later when the ‘market is saturated’ (meaning there’s no one left who wants to sign up for it). When they can’t grow their income through more users, they’ll ramp up prices and shave off services. It’s happening everywhere already and in the end you’ll wish everyone advocated for adblockers a little more because by the time you’re fed up with their pricing, it might already be too late to go back.
It‘s laughable to expect corporations to act against their only purpose. As soon as a company sells shares it takes the route of infinite growth which is impossible. First they grow their user base and once they start to inevitably stagnate, they start milking their costumers, shaving off features and laying off workers in order to grow their income. It is really the only way for them to remain existent when the market is saturated. They cannot stay in business when they make billions a year when these billions aren‘t even more billions than last year. You can‘t attract new investors that way and therefore cannot continue to exist. Enshittyfication only just started. It cannot possibly get better when they can‘t expand their user base, only worse. They know they will self destruct eventually, but that doesn‘t matter as long as shareholders get their piece of the cake and jump ship to sink the next one. Just being a massively profitable company is bad business if you‘re not growing. That‘s the state of capitalism we‘re in.
Google‘s ‚auto complete‘ is driving me nuts sometimes and it‘s also prevalent on Youtube. I mean just scrolling through completely unrelated suggestions in Youtube‘s search results tells you how little they care to show you what you actually want and rather something that makes them more money one way or another. But the direct fiddling with actual search quarries is just malpractice for a search engine.
Twitter made Trump win in 2016. Like, did people seriously forget about „Trump tweeted“ headlines that dominated daily news for years? The same news that would then claim a small obscure website like 4Chan made Trump president single-handedly. I mean I almost can‘t blame you for memory holing those years, but claiming Twitter wasn‘t absolute dog water before Musk is simply wrong.
It already was prior to Musk’s takeover.
It’s crazy how media pretends Twitter wasn’t the biggest contributor to Trump’s MAGA movement, being the most followed user on the site up until his fanatic followers stormed the US capitol. I mean did people already forget these dreadful years of “Trump tweeted” headlines every single day??? Twitter has been an enemy to democracy for many years.
Sounds like the usual fear mongering of technology similar to „humans weren‘t made to drive steam lokomotives. Those incredible speeds will surely drive us all insane!“ I mean they‘re citing Ian Mortimer who has proven again and again that he does not understand nor care about human behavior throughout history. It isn‘t surprising someone who thinks we all crawled in the mud just centuries earlier would be overwhelmed with our own mirror image but that‘s far from reality.
Until they sell that platform too and you have to grow your follower base somewhere else yet again.
Unreal Engine almost has a monopoly at this point. It‘s also very friendly to use for small indie devs, not charging you anything for the first million dollars you make. Their license fees also seem rather fair as of now. But it doesn‘t help competition is flat lining left and right. Epic Games could feel their engine is worth a little more when Unity is gone too so I‘m happy to see many hobby devs give Godot a try first. I hope a company like Valve with their sheer infinite resources will see the shrinking market of Unreal alternatives and give their engine development a serious push. We really need more diversity when it comes to Engines.
Ich nehme an, du wuchst nicht nach solchen Inhalten oder bietest dem Algorithmus sonst irgendwelche Hinweise, dass du sowas sehen können wolltest?
Absolut richtig. Ich scrolle einfach durch und eventuell kommen dann solche Clips einfach. Auf meiner Startseite sehe ich so etwas eigentlich nie. Shorts scheint mir fast wie eine ganz eigene App/Webseite die nur oberflächlich mit Youtube zu verknüpft sein scheint. Zumindest als Zuschauer.
Rechtspopulismus geht auf Youtube shorts gerade besonders übel ab. Krieg da immer wieder shorts mit hunderten likes, die zum Beispiel dazu auffordern Klimastreikende zu ermorden. Deren Profile sind dann voll mit der Scheiße und man muss sich echt fragen, wie das manchmal wochenlang online bleiben kann.
Tech blogs and the like have long compared the specs and the conclusion was a difference of 3 generations to other high end phones which I was told is a 5 year gap. And if it really had been a fully domestic chip, developing it this quickly would have been quite the achievement actually. But parts from south korea were found so that was a short celebration.
Nintendo Wii/WiiU/DS/Switch did it better.