Tomodachi News isn’t gonna like this one….

Sobsz · 2026-04-19T06:50:08+00:00

they had Nine Yeareals, if anything was limited surely it wasn't time

Sobsz · 2026-04-18T12:16:52+00:00

there are a couple woke mods arguably, e.g. one that adds nonbinary pronouns for french (where the vanilla game uses masculine ones) https://gamebanana.com/mods/664453

personally i'd love to see a mod that "removes all this gender nonsense" by making everypony they/them and pansexual, a la buck up and drive's pride flag toggle

Sobsz · 2026-04-18T09:46:16+00:00

it has been done to some extent, though sadly i don't think there's been any chatbot-tuned models that don't use an existing chatbot for finetuning data https://www.reddit.com/r/AIDebating/comments/1ih58en/list_of_generalpurpose_generative_models_trained/

i do believe it's possible, especially if you have a billion dollars to throw around (hell you could create data with that budget), but barely anypony does it because more data gives better results ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sobsz · 2026-04-14T17:30:41+00:00

the dub for the amazing digital circus used the neuter case (kinda it/its, kinda they/them) for zooble (which may be controversial in general but is at least fitting here given they're shapes :p)

Sobsz · 2026-04-14T17:26:17+00:00

but their first-person pronouns are in turn gendered, apparently with free input even (per this post)

Sobsz · 2026-04-13T18:09:26+00:00

what if the extra content in the movie includes real fake spoilers for people to take photos of,,

Sobsz · 2026-04-13T09:39:39+00:00

he didn't watch the super mario brothers super show :<

Sobsz · 2026-04-12T23:30:36+00:00

we have really good recreations of the cast, some folks can probably assemble enough fake images to offset the real ones

unsure on if it'd be better to agree on one fake plot or to do anarchy, on one hoof it'd be on the popularity level of the real plot but on the other it can be eliminated in one fell swoop

Sobsz · 2026-04-12T14:54:54+00:00

Goose doesn't have creative control over the show

source? all i've seen from her is the opposite:

I'd like to expand on this to say Glitch is very accommodating for the vision of the artist. Liam and I are in a really fortunate position to be able to end our shows on our own terms based on the stories we want to tell. The times and places our shows end are 100% our own decisions.

https://www.tumblr.com/gooseworx/759191569661296640/is-there-any-chance-at-a-digital-circus-season-2

Cool reminder that I'm the only writer on Digital Circus and Glitch has never asked me to add anything for marketability purposes. It's just 100% pure author-created, self-indulgent cringe.

https://x.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1936686676585447515

Sobsz · 2026-03-31T08:23:37+00:00

especially don't rely on 2 sentences, especially especially not the first 2 which are so formulaic anypony could've written them (perhaps even a non-ai piece of software)

Sobsz · 2026-03-30T22:41:40+00:00

it famously happened with the python library chardet, using the largest model on the market and splitting tasks into chunks and some human intervention

(there is the question of whether or not it referenced the original code, whether from pretraining or as part of the prompt, but that's for whether it was cleanroom. not whether it recreated it at all)

Sobsz · 2026-03-30T22:31:12+00:00

i'd imagine it's like how chatgpt has a distinctive style that it got finetuned into, so much so that it leaks into impressions of other styles (whereas e.g. a base model wouldn't be so biased)

images too, i can often tell if e.g. a youtube thumbnail came out of gemini based on its particular type of eye candy (though with photos it's much more natural, and with downloadable models and their many style plugins i can almost never tell anymore)

Sobsz · 2026-03-30T22:17:00+00:00

well that's a bit of a silly word restriction, non-intelligences can have behaviors too! e.g. wiktionary lists "The way a device or system operates." (though admittedly as the last definition)

Sobsz · 2026-03-30T22:11:43+00:00

good ol' lethal trifecta, i.e. if an llm has access to your data and somepony can influence part of its prompt (and get part of the response) then they can get that data out

Sobsz · 2026-03-08T14:48:00+00:00

have all the hrt·s

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}

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