People who enjoy hardcore pvp and extraction shooters are hyped… but the important question is whether or not those people represent a large enough niche to sustain a game with such a massive budget.

I’m guessing no, but who knows.

Introducing: Microsoft Cosmos!

Send your data to heaven while we turn the planet into hell!

My understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter.

It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.

most moons

Pretty much every moon but Titan. Titan, however, would be excellent for heat dissipation. Long before generative AI was even a thing, scientists have speculated that Titan would be the perfect place for datacenters because low-temperature computation is so much more efficient.

Of course, building a datacenter on Titan would be a several-hundred-trillion dollar endeavor, so… good luck bootstrapping your way into that industry.

Hear hear.

It’s also clever politics. Minnesota has the largest iron mining operations in the entire United States, so choosing iron as your core battery technology is a smart (albeit cynical) way to drum to some local support with the promise of bringing new demand back to the taconite mines.

Whether that will be strong enough to overcome the extreme negative sentiments around datacenter projects? Who knows…

There have been some pretty high-profile departures from Anthropic over the past few months, so… I dunno, seems like there are plenty of insiders who are unhappy with the company’s current trajectory.

No it isn’t. This is an unsubstantiated rumor and watching 18 minutes of sensationalized AI slop isn’t going to make it true or teach you anything you couldn’t learn from a 10 second Internet search.

Sounds like my Outlook “sent” folder…

A child a day keeps the Attorney General away!

That’s the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!

God, I wish I could get groceries for 70…

Overuse of H-1B visas.

It’s literally a system of indentured servitude and corpos are just free to abuse it with impunity.

Man… of all the vibe coding tools, Lovable has gotta be one of the most useless, too.

I work with people (all middle managers) who love Loveable because they can type a two sentence description of an app and it will immediately vomit something into existence. But the code it generates is an absolute disaster and the UIs it designs (which is supposed to be its main draw) is some of the most generic crap I’ve ever seen.

0/10, do not recommend.

The AI assistant answers are just synthesized from the shitty SEO results.

the fact that the output of LLMs can’t be copyrighted

That may be the status quo right now, but I expect tech and media companies will fight tooth and nail to gain copyright protections over the slop they generate. A few bribes donations to the right politicians and you can get legislation that grants whatever rights you want.

Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year… but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting…

But how would you use words to explain the phenomenon?

I don’t know, I’ve been struggling to find the right ‘sound bite’ for it myself. The problem is that all of the simplified explanations encourage people to anthropomorphize these things, which just further fuels the toxic hype cycle.

In the end, I’m unsure which does more damage.

Is it better to convince people the AI “lies”, so they’ll stop using it? Or is it better to convince people AI doesn’t actually have the capacity to lie so that they’ll stop shoveling money onto the datacenter altar like we’ve just created some bullshit techno-god?

It refers to when an LLM will in some way try to deceive or manipulate the user interacting with it.

I think this still gives the model too much credit by implying that there’s any sort of intentionally behind this behavior.

There’s not.

These models are trained on the output of real humans and real humans lie and deceive constantly. All that’s happening is that the underlying mathematical model has encoded the statistical likelihood that someone will lie in a given situation. If that statistical likelihood is high enough, the model itself will lie when put in a similar situation.

“Hotseat” multiplayer isn’t in the game at all yet.