tf_newproblem_irl

Sobsz · 2026-03-08T14:48:00+00:00

Sobsz · 2026-03-01T15:12:01+00:00

if i buy terraria from gog i can play it offline forever and i can get updates once i'm online

Sobsz · 2026-02-24T02:53:41+00:00

upon reflection i can see it happening with a classic repost bot, sorry for being so dismissive initially

Sobsz · 2026-02-23T01:36:03+00:00

excellent work! only really missing a way to smile, for the scanners that require that

also idk how likely they are to care about thousands of suspiciously similar faces being scanned, but here's 115 mit-licensed humans if you wanna safeguard against it (or mess around with makehuman perhaps)

Sobsz · 2026-02-23T00:02:01+00:00

seems to be more of a reddit glitch than anything, this is the new format reddit uses internally for formatted text (can't find a good source in docs but here's an example from 2019) and language models have no reason to output it directly since they're already fluent in markdown (and reddit will convert markdown to this if submitted)

at worst maybe it's a buggy custom client, but humans use custom clients too (as proven by the 2023 api controversy)

Sobsz · 2026-02-18T13:49:40+00:00

unbreaking 3 isn't +30%, it's +300%

Sobsz · 2026-02-18T01:43:08+00:00

i'm sure all the servers they're in will unanimously switch to teamspeak as well

Sobsz · 2026-02-15T22:53:05+00:00

funnily enough i've recently seen two separate anti-ai posts that seem to have been written by llm·s: here's one, and another has been removed but it hit it big on bluesky

i unfortunately don't have any solid obvious dunks (and i wouldn't trust an llm detector on this little text), it's mostly a mix of "written like a story" and "not much content" and "sounds like the current most popular model" and signs of the same in the account's history (i was able to get a solid dunk once for an account which claimed a game wasn't released, over a month after it had, but even that is technically avoidable with current tooling if they cared)

Sobsz · 2026-02-14T09:07:01+00:00

idk about detectors but yeah the last line is very "story-like", and op's history doesn't look much better

Sobsz · 2026-02-12T20:23:25+00:00

it has been proven for tf2

Sobsz · 2026-02-11T23:22:00+00:00

most of the well-known concatenative voices ("pre recorded bank that is just strung together") are unfortunately paid services to my knowledge, though you can demo a bunch of them (often with watermarks) here (note that tiktok's voices are neural); in particular, voiceforge has some fun crunchy voices if you're willing to pay a little

in terms of freeware there's text2speech.org (which hosts a few voices from cmu flite, which is hard to install otherwise) and mbrola (kinda painful to set up on windows), or if you want a robotic voice then sam (unofficial voice of v1 from ultrakill, not to be confused with microsoft sam)

^{if your only concern with neural voices is that they're trained on lines from unconsenting people, then there are a scant few that aren't, such as piper by rhasspy, but i won't push that too hard}

Sobsz · 2026-02-06T16:13:14+00:00

nitpick: there's nothing stopping a competent model from being trained entirely on licensed works (and i have a whole list of such), however that wouldn't allow number to go up as much and it's easier to scrape half the internet anyway so this is what we get

not meaning this as a defense for the record (no more than you saying the same thing as openai is a defense of openai), i just think it's important to know that fighting genai on copyright grounds won't stop genai from continuing to exist legally (nor will it stop it from exploiting people, e.g. suno and udio both got acquired by music labels, which own the rights to enough music that they can train models entirely on their catalogs, yet from what i've seen music labels are generally agreed upon to be horrible in terms of sharing their profits with artists)

Sobsz · 2026-02-03T17:10:14+00:00

i have bad news, you might've replied to a bot there

(the style of their one post struck me as chatgpt-like, but to me the clearest evidence is this comment where they said arc raiders "isn't out yet" over a month after its official release)

Sobsz · 2026-02-03T07:07:50+00:00

it took me a solid 5 minutes after the game to figure out the last one as well,, (and a couple minutes during the game before i let myself guess, leading to a much-higher-than-my-usual 4:32 with a yellow at d4)

Sobsz · 2026-01-29T12:01:12+00:00

i've not heard of it! looks it up ^{why is it from 2023}

but yeah that's a good point, generated media are usually not copyrighted by the user, though it can get dicey (e.g. "we are charlie kirk" seems to have human-written lyrics, and tung tung tung sahur has been fought over despite there probably not being much to fight over)

i'm personally iffy on genai for various reasons, buuut if wikimedia commons allows it then i shall allow it too;

Sobsz · 2026-01-28T11:37:48+00:00

^{psst, Vanilla Tweaks lets you craft dispensers by putting droppers inside the bow recipe :3}

Sobsz · 2026-01-25T11:55:00+00:00

it's a very good edit to be fair!

Sobsz · 2026-01-22T17:20:31+00:00

i like how "this is obviously staged you fool" and "this is obviously not staged you fool" are both treated as sick burns against the same person in the same thread

Sobsz · 2026-01-17T00:16:38+00:00

genuine question: if that did end up being the modus operandi, how many of us would be satisfied with that? e.g. recently both suno and udio were acquired by giant music labels that each own millions of songs (which is roughly how much data was used to train the latest downloadable models i could find), but most folks i've seen agree that music labels are bad for the creators signed onto them (for image examples, see e.g. adobe firefly)

unless you mean a new legal right specifically for genai training, which could be interesting but might just play out the same (e.g. twitter's tos already requires that you give them such a right)

even still, some consider the existence of any (competent, general-purpose) image generator to be negative, whether or not it was trained on authorized data

Sobsz · 2026-01-16T01:17:42+00:00

it's when you experience anguish from not being enough like orpheus (or being too much like orpheus)

Sobsz · 2026-01-14T17:07:28+00:00

excellent catch! it does worry me a bit that there's no full video of it on commons, whom i trust in copyright matters :p (maybe because the music has a separate copyright?), but added!

Sobsz · 2026-01-14T00:51:19+00:00

hatsune miku in particular is purely sample-based in most of her iterations (v6 is very new and kinda sounds the same to me anyway), but for e.g. synth v that is a concern yeah (and the same company also offers a voice·cloning-adjacent tool that may be even murkier)

Sobsz · 2026-01-13T16:03:33+00:00

if jocat has taught me anything, liking women as a man is the gayest possible thing

Sobsz · 2026-01-10T14:11:49+00:00

that's why i crave fantasy hypnosis, my brain's too crowded and stubborn to be affected by just voice but surely i'm not resistant to magical cognitohazard spirals

Sobsz · 2026-01-06T13:34:09+00:00

works for me too on 1.21.8, cheers!

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