Yes, but again, at that point the government will prosecute anyone who opposes them. Giving corporations a couple minor defenses doesn’t remove the government’s power, it just helps shift the blame to the masses rather than large corporations who are likely complicit with the government.

I mean, if the courts will actually convict for that, you’ve got a much bigger issue than social media - at that point the government in question can arrest anyone whenever they want.

Theres plenty of different ways to handle it, but the simplist would be based on if avoidable harm can be problem in a court of law. If a social media site shows someone a parade of content telling them to kill themselves, they should be able to be held liable, whereas right now the currators recommending negative content and hiding positive are held as innocent bystanders.

As well as privacy laws, another route would be limitting the control the companies have over what you are shown. If these social media companies are going to exert control over everything the user sees, they should be responsible for the consequences of what is shown. After all, if a TV station broatcasts a show that, for example, encourages suicide, it would obviously be held responsible. If social media is dictating what a user sees on the platform rather than the other way around, whats the difference?

Honestly, my immediately reaction is that all three of these genres are basically live-service MMOs. Getting and maintaining a large enough playerbase would not be an easy feat. The different gameplay loops may make things more difficult, but extraction shooters and survival games have a lot of overlap, although I can’t picture how a 5v5 shooter would benefit from being built on top of this.

I would also warn that large-scale projects like these tend to be exponentially more difficult, without significantly increased odds of success. If this is a long-term passion project, no reason not to pursue it, but if you’re hoping to turn it into a buisness, you’re probably better off looking into something with a lower playercount required.

Lemmy’s core developers are Tankies (radical supporters of the CCP and anyone else claiming to carry on second world ideology, such as Putin) as are many of those running older instances. This includes older instances such as Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml, which makes them very entrenched. Still, they seem to be a very vocal minority, since larger instances like Lemmy.world lean away from that, and PieFed (an alternative but still intercompatible Lemmy alternative) is popular in part from those wishing to move away from Lemmy’s tankie developers.

The AI might have encountered these symbols in training on some weird occult neo nazi forums or something

Unfortunately, the double koppa as a Nazi symbol is neither new or rare, esspecially relative to the fequency of other patterns of symbols. Seeing as LLMs just output common text, its unfortunately unsuprising that this would be among the results if limitted to symbols.

There’s no way this should’ve gotten past multiple people, it’s inexcusable

Thats the trick. Has GOG gone so far downhill that they publish unreviewed AI output, is it that the company hired a Nazi and put him in a global marketing role with zero oversight, or does the company have a more widespead Nazi problem?

None of the possibilities here are good, and the fact that the apology doesn’t even try to address any of these seems even worse.

intentional subtle wink

I’m not convinced it is, just because the other symbols are so random. Like, if it was a human, you’d think they’d at least use other runes, or would use something more standard like, ☉ or ☼, or would at least put in some effort to disguise it. I mean, if they actually wanted to make it subtle, they may even have actually used the sowilō symbol, given that that is what the SS runes originate from. Instead, its Koppa, undisguised, front and centre. An AI on the other hand, would just output common patterns of symbols, such as this.

Then again, Nazis aren’t exactly known for being smart, so…

I’m struggling to figure out how they even ended up with it. So far as I can tell, 𖥞 is from a symbol from the Cameroon Bamum language, having nothing to do with the game. ꥟ is a character from Sumatran dialects, but it at least looks like a sun, so I could maybe see that. That said, the ϟ, nonetheless repeated, seems inexcusable. Its specifically Greek koppa, not the Old Norse ᛋ (the sowilō character they reference in their apology) and I see no reason to use it twice.

Honestly, the only way I can think of that this was included, was it being AI generated and unmonitored. Why else would they combine a random Bamum symbol, a Sumatran symbol, and what is pretty clearly an SS emblem?

This matches my experiences as well. When I joined years ago, it felt like there was so much more variety. By available stats, MAU is pretty consistant (although the stats are lacking in key details like MAU excluding bot instances, or posts/comments per month) but it feels like so much of the new content is exclusively politics while other interests and niches have fallen off.

Direct link to the study: https://www.psycnet.org/doi/10.1037/ppm0000672

Unfortunately, its paywalled, but I’d be curious about the methodology and population.

The point of speed cameras isn’t to stop you from speeding, it’s to stop innocent people from getting fucking slaughtered.

If speeding isn’t a meaningful measure for safety, why are we enforcing the current limits? If it is, why are we allowing drivers to consistantly drive over those speeds?

Invidious doesn’t work for age restricted videos.

If they need to be monitored at all times to be safe, do you not think it would be better to take away their licence?

Most people aren’t super involved with AI, and basically use it passively. In the same vien, up until fairly recently, social media was generally seen as a good thing because people enjoyed it and it wasn’t common knowledge (not that evidence didn’t exist) all the negative impacts it had. Thats not to say social media, or generative AI shouldn’t exist, but the topic is more complex, and most people don’t engage with that complexity and simply do whats easiest or what marketing tells them to do.

surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage

Investors throw money at stupid stuff all the time. Tech in particular tends to be volitile and speculative. I mean, right before AI, it was NFTs, and before that, “the metaverse”, and befors that blockchain. All of these were said to be gigantic new technologies that would revolutionize every industry and every aspect of life, and each had billions (trillions?) of dollars invested in them. Each of them lasted about a year before their value collapsed and they were realized to be overpriced dead-ends and empty marketing.

Only if you have cameras on literally every road. No substantial action is being taken, so they go right back to dangerous driving as soon as they aren’t on-camera, as this graph seems to indicate.

Just because some companies sells USB butplugs it doesn’t mean USB standard is necessarily a pain in the ass overall.

No, but it does mean that the USB standard allows for being a pain in the ass, compatibility-wise, which kind-of defeats the point.

This is more a chart demonstrating bad road design or regulation, and the incompetence of the enforcement. Either the roads are designed in such a way that huge numbers of people feel safe driving at these speeds (because the speed limit is too low, or the road designed unsafely) or there is a large number of unsafe drivers who only stopped in the presence of cameras, and who went right back to unsafe driving without issue.

On the other hand, I have a USB-C charged laptop, but it only accepts one specific spec of 45w, and one specific spec for 60w. This means that 90% of usb-c chargers don’t work for it, including chargers that support 45w or 60w charging. This means that even if you buy a charger with the right wattage, its effectively random whether it will work or not.

Unfortunately, given the current economy, its not suprising. With how much prices have risen, the old pricing competed with and often beat out even used desktops.