You will be when this latest AI hype turns into the next AI winter, yes.

The Amish also live in a way that doesn’t scale to eight billion human beings. But you already knew that and are arguing in bad faith.

It would be so hilarious to revisit this confident (dare I say it: AI levels of confidence!) statement in two years when AI has crashed like every other previous wave of AI tech.

I’d read a few issues back in the day (borrowed from an ardent participant) and I’m still gob-smacked how lively and active game designers were back in the early '80s. And how well they knew each other, all because of the pages of this little APA.

I have compared several more traditional translation engines (Google Translate, Baidu Translate, Bing Translate, DeepL, etc.) vs. several LLM-based translation engines (DeepSeek, Perplexity, and ChatGPT).

There is a HUGE difference in quality. Like you can’t even compare them. The latter do far more idiomatic translation than do the former and the quality of the output is higher and more directly usable.

But …

You absolutely must do a back-translation check to ensure that it didn’t hallucinate something into your translation. Take your document in A and have it translate into B. Then start a new session, take that translated document B and translate it back to A. Also tell it to analyze B for possible translation errors, unclear areas, etc. If it comes back with nothing more than nit-picky suggestions you’re fine. If it translates back stuff with hallucinated content or serious grammatical errors, etc. try again.

It’s still faster than and far higher quality than Google/Baidu/Bing/DeepL translation, even with the extra checking step.

Translation is one of the few places I’ll say LLMs have value, though if you trust it you absolutely will get burned. You need to check its output.

I’ll take “bad faith arguments for $500”.

The sudden explosion of “artists” (visual, written, or musical forms) who can’t seem to spot that “their” art is incoherent, meaningless dross.

It’s the most influential publication on RPG designers that you never heard of. Most of the game design innovations that were made in the '70s, '80s, and '90s came from the pages of A&E in their embryonic form, and it still held quite a bit of impact in the '00s.

Not like you’d normally put that much work into hand-made animation that is not specifically made to showcase what animation CAN look like.

Have you never watched an animated film? And I don’t mean those Saturday morning cartoon things. I mean actual long-form film made for adults.

Animators put insane amount of work into details and subtleties when animating to sell the immersion.

Idk, seems like it would be an easy fix to tell the AI to generate more in-betweens to make the animation smoother.

Then you’d just get more random in-betweens. The issue is that the degenerative AI has literally no idea what it’s making. It doesn’t know about legs or arms or eyes or noses or whatever. It has no internal model guiding it in any way, so asking it to generate more frames is just going to get you more frames of arms and legs jerking around in disturbing, incoherent ways.

I’m with you here. No idea what the joke is even supposed to be, not to mention if it’s funny or not.

That would be an interesting question. If I had a Xhitter account I’d do the test myself.

There is a whole lot more to a healthy democracy than “I voted”.

China doesn’t need to retaliate. Chinese cinema goers are overwhelmingly choosing domestic product over import in recent years. For 2024, for example, 80% of the Chinese box office went to Chinese productions.

The problem is he brought a deck of poker cards to a chess game.

The movies normalized The American Way™ as the default way of doing things. The billionaires then financed the people pitching The American Way™. Without the first, the second wouldn’t work.

The Chinese market is huge, yes, but increasingly turning away from Hollywood productions to homegrown ones. In 2025 for example 哪吒2 (Nézhā 2) broke scored over $2 billion at the box office, with a record-smashing $1.96 billion of that coming domestically. By way of comparison Captain America 4 only managed $14.4 million so far, a dramatic drop from 2016’s Captain America 3 returns of $180 million in 2016.

For reference, even CA3’s $180 million is an order of magnitude smaller than Nezha 2. CA4’s is two orders of magnitude smaller.

Now this is still true: China’s theatre-going audience, estimated at over half a billion people, is larger than the entire population of the USA. It’s still a hugely important market. But, for example, in 2024 the Chinese box office was estimated at ~6 billion dollars total: and 80% of that went to domestic films. The best-performing foreign film of 2024 (Dune 2) only made $48 million, ranking it about 8th. 7th was 维和防暴队 (Wéihé Fángbàoduì/Formed Police Unit) and it made over $120 million.

I’m pretty sure that the Chinese market for Hollywood films is vanishing.

I hate you so much right now. CHOKE ON THE UPVOTE, JERKFACE!

Oh, the world’s worst-run and most corrupt convention is doing something bad?

In other news, water is wet.

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