Gencon fires one of its most Woke areas, while Hasbro is going more open on AI.

Probably firing one so can make room for something even worse.

I think the financial impacts of driving away everyone but a tiny minority is beginning to correct the woke over correction.  Also, as usual, the people claiming to be champions of virtue are tripping over their feet of clay.

I like they way they fire the woke councils AFTER the event.

From the video i saw i find it hard to believe they lost any money at the GENCon event, it looked like a couple hundred thousand people were there.

these are all distractions.  real problems are out there, and no one knows what to do or the morons are actively trying to sink the usa.  the fed rate increase this week will be the deathknell.  unless nato manages to launch deep strike missiles at russia, at which time enjoy the mushroom clouds, hopefully kiev will be first and we will get to see the videos.


hasbro states they are using AI on an "investor' phone call.  Of course cox is going to say they embrace AI, he thinks investors want to hear that.  in reality we all know they are using AI, as they fired all thier creators.   WHO else is making all that stuff?  keebler elves? haitians?

IMHO, what we call AI (it's not intelligence at all) is a tool, animation software has been using something like it for a long while (tweening).

Artists would do well in learning to use it as such, make it generate pieces you'll later use as reference or will correct.

For writing... It's not in a really usable way beyond very short stuff.

Programming... It might be more useful here but still has the same problem, it will re-use the same stuff over and over again, I think it would be very useful to trouble-shoot but not much beyond it.

Developing RPGs/RPG stuff... It's great for helping you create random tables, but you have to learn it's limitations and work around those: You have to ask it for ONE column at the time and you have to learn how to ask it so it doesn't repeat itself and doesn't include shit you don't want.

For example, ask it for common American names, it will give you Hispanic, Anglo, etc names... But you were trying for a wild west setting, so you need to learn how to ask it.

Adventures... Maybe the seed for one, something YOU'LL have to fix and flesh out, it's terribly repetitive, because it can only use what it has access to.

In short it lacks creativity, talent and the capacity to innovate.

Now, if you have the machine then you can install one and learn to train it for whatever use you want to give it, then it's way better for that use case, but it still has the same limitations.

WotC and other corporations, had to scream they'll never use it, because they bent the knee to the woke mafia, and they hate it.

I bet it's the same corporations driving much of the hate, because they NEED for it to be regulated so the plebs can't use it to compete with them.

Quote from: Omega on September 17, 2024, 06:15:47 AMProbably firing one so can make room for something even worse.

That's my guess as well.  Just having birthing queer POC panelists isn't enough... they need to be disabled and diseased (physically and mentally) too.  Bonus points if they're here illegally.

ChatGPT knows about me.

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Hilarious.

Quote from: DocJones on September 17, 2024, 05:15:26 PMChatGPT knows about me.

ChatGPT thinks I'm a character from Mistborn. Meanwhile all the image generators think I'm a hot brunette.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on September 17, 2024, 01:23:25 PMIMHO, what we call AI (it's not intelligence at all) is a tool, animation software has been using something like it for a long while (tweening).

It is barely a tool. Its a combination of ELIZA and a webcrawler/dataminer.

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I've never put any content on Twitch, and I don't play Team Fortress 2 at all.
Nobody tell it where the tf comes from!

Quote from: Omega on September 18, 2024, 03:24:10 PM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on September 17, 2024, 01:23:25 PMIMHO, what we call AI (it's not intelligence at all) is a tool, animation software has been using something like it for a long while (tweening).

It is barely a tool. Its a combination of ELIZA and a webcrawler/dataminer.

It's a pretty tremendous tool, if you learn how to use it, and it will only get more useful as time goes by.

As long as Gencon still has a "BIPOC lounge" (this disgusting blight first appeared in 2022, and in 2023 it got this article https://indianapolisrecorder.com/gen-con-bipoc-lounge-offers-safe-space-for-minority-gamers/ , and you can find people discussing it in 2024 so I assumed it was present there as well), I feel it will be far too bought in on identity politics.  The elimination of one totally pozzed and dishonest nonevent is still a big deal, because, as the video points out, it's unbelievable to see them bend even slightly on anything- in previous years you'd see them refuse to take any L, no matter how high the price was.

Quote from: Anon Adderlan on September 18, 2024, 03:41:56 AMMeanwhile all the image generators think I'm a hot brunette.

To be fair, there are far worse things to be.

Quote from: Thornhammer on September 19, 2024, 07:34:06 PM

Quote from: Anon Adderlan on September 18, 2024, 03:41:56 AMMeanwhile all the image generators think I'm a hot brunette.

To be fair, there are far worse things to be.

Reminds me of an old joke:

What's the mating call of a blonde?  "I'm sooooo drunk!"

What's the mating call of a brunette?  "All the blondes have left..."

What's the mating call of a redhead?  "Next."