For me it was playing Life is Strange for the first time. I bought it because it had been listed on Steam as “Overwhelmingly Positive” for ages, and at the time I was really enjoying the story-based games that companies like Telltale were producing. So, knowing nothing about the game, I picked it up and started playing it.

The first act was slow. What I didn’t realize at the time was that the writers were establishing Arcadia Bay, a city in the Pacific Northwest, as a character. All the people in it needed to be recognizable, so it took time for them to teach the player about who they were, what mattered to them, how they fit in to the city, and what their flaws were. I actually stopped playing for a while after the first act. But, luckily, I picked it back up over the holiday season.

I still remember playing it in my living room. I was so thoroughly absorbed into the story that when something tense happened in the second act and I couldn’t stop it the way I normally could, I was literally crushing the controller as if I could make things work by pulling the triggers harder.

I am decidedly not the demographic that Life is Strange was written to appeal to, but they did such a good job writing a compelling story that it didn’t matter. I got sucked in, the characters became important to me, and I could not. put. it. down. I played straight through a night until I finished it.

(If you’ve played it and you’re wondering, I chose the town the first time I played it.)

I’ll never forget that game. I’ll also never forget the communities that spawned around it. I read the accounts of people who had just played it for the first time for about a year because it helped me relive the experience I had when I played it. It was incredible.

My purpose in life is to be happy. My primary challenge in life is to find the things in life that make me happy and try to find ways that those things can make other people happy.

Our system of measurement. There can be only one!

Regardless of whether or not any of the titles do or do not contain said content, ChatGPT’s varying responses highlight troubling deficiencies of accuracy, analysis, and consistency. A repeat inquiry regarding The Kite Runner, for example, gives contradictory answers. In one response, ChatGPT deems Khaled Hosseini’s novel to contain “little to no explicit sexual content.” Upon a separate follow-up, the LLM affirms the book “does contain a description of a sexual assault.”

On the one hand, the possibility that ChatGPT will hallucinate that an appropriate book is inappropriate is a big problem. But on the other hand, making high-profile mistakes like this keeps the practice in the news and keeps showing how bad it is to ban books, so maybe it has a silver lining.

Exactly. These things seem common because we see examples of them amplified on social media. Most of them are vanishingly rare.

The Community Search Tips community has the post you’re looking for: Finding NSFW Communities Using Lemmyverse.net

Almost the same thing happened on Reddit when everyone migrated from Digg. It’s so similar, in fact, that I wonder if maybe this isn’t a normal thing.

Instead of focusing on something like real people losing their jobs because of it.

Ironically, it was the rise of one of those job-killing changes that made it possible for me to get in to a job in art in the first place. I think the same thing will be true for generative images. Some people who relied on the high bar for entry to protect their jobs will lose them, and some people who couldn’t get access to those jobs will suddenly find themselves able to enter artistic fields.

Art, like everything else, is worth what someone will pay for it.

A chimpanzee can sell his art for thousands and get it in a gallery. It is that easy – if people want it for some reason.

It’s not art

I’m old enough to remember three similar statements that are equally untrue:

• Photography isn’t art
• Photoshop isn’t art
• Video Games aren’t art

Eventually, we changed our opinions. The same will happen for generative images. They are art.

The other exception is performance. If you register on a very overloaded server, or one that has insufficient resources, you’re going to have a bad time.

Oh! Good to know!

We ran the command several times and have had no ill effects. I would say you could drop those users now to clean up your database.

Thanks for linking this. I intended to put it in the body of the post but forgot to. Note that the information is very out-of-date. I manually checked each one earlier, and only two of those sites are still blocking us.

That’s a good indicator when you find your instance blocked by a lot of other instances.

That’s just it: it took a third-party tool for us to even know we were being blocked. Our Lemmy instance really had no tools in place for us to see anything was wrong. If we hadn’t been extremely curious about our high user count, we never would have known there was a bot on our site. Never.

Interestingly, when we discovered the tool that let us see that we were being blocked, I noticed that almost all of the sites that were reported as blocking us were in fact not blocking us. To their immense credit, they had apparently blocked us and then unblocked us after we wiped out the bots. It says a lot that those admins kept checking whatever report they were checking and followed up after we cleared up the problem.

I like having money, so I use porkbun.com.

Forums may be in the “long tail” of the internet experience, I guess, but we are definitely not past them.

Hindsight. Always useful. Terrible timing.

Water and an X-Box controller. What could possibly go wrong?

There’s no end in sight.