The new God of War Faye spin-off is getting huge backlash for making the in-game character way uglier than Deborah Ann Woll, the voice and motion-capture actress behind Faye.
Sony did it again, you can thank the usual consultants
Here’s the email to employees:
Team,
Hope everyone’s doing well and enjoying the productivity enhancements from our AI tooling initiative.
Unfortunately, Finance has asked me to clarify a small issue.
It appears someone, and by “someone” I mean apparently all of you simultaneously, managed to spend $500,000,000 on @claudeai usage in a single month.
For context:
•NASA landed on the moon for less.
•We are now the proud owner of approximately 14% of Anthropic.
•Claude personally sent us a thank-you fruit basket.
•Our CFO has entered a fugue state and only communicates through Slack emojis.
•The electricity usage from your prompts briefly dimmed parts of Northern Virginia.
While we appreciate innovation, there are concerns that:
•“Can you make this email sound slightly warmer?” did not require 11,400 generations.
•Asking Claude to “rewrite this in the style of Succession, Hemingway, and Tony Soprano combined” may have been excessive.
•One employee appears to have used Claude to generate “a quick list of lunch options” that somehow consumed the GDP of a small island nation.
Going forward, please observe the following guidelines:
1Do not upload the entire internet into Claude “for context.”
2If your prompt begins with “simulate every possible outcome,” reconsider.
3Claude should not be used to:
◦settle fantasy football disputes,
◦write your wedding vows 97 times,
◦generate revenge edits of your ex’s LinkedIn bio,
◦or ask “what if Rome had WiFi?”
Most importantly:
If you see the message:
“This request may require additional datacenter construction”
…please stop immediately and contact IT.
Thank you all for your cooperation during this challenging yet technologically groundbreaking time.
Warm regards, Management
P.S. Whoever prompted:
“Generate every possible PR angle for every company founded since 1983”
…we just want to talk.
> be PlayStation
> exist only because Nintendo backstabbed Sony. 1991
> PS1: first 100M console ever. you're welcome
> PS2: 158M sold. still the GOAT
> US military: 1,760 PS3s linked into a supercomputer
> cheaper than real hardware
> PS3: $599. "work more hours to afford it"
> PSN 2011: 77M accounts hacked. plain text passwords
> E3 2013: made Xbox look like a war crime with one video
> PS4: 1M units on day one
> 2026: PS5 now $649. no warning
> hidden DRM on all digital games. said nothing
> UK users: face or passport or no voice chat
> three scandals. one month. same PR statement
The console born from betrayal is starting to look a lot like the one that betrayed it.
This STAR WARS teaser trailer was screened before ‘King Kong’ in December of 1976.
The special effects weren’t finished, the music is NOT John Williams, and all in all it gives off a very different much darker vibe.
Interesting.
ELVENKING.
What a gift to return to Middle Earth, this character, these extraordinary people…. See you in Mirkwood!
Lord of the Rings, The Hunt for Gollum.
2027.
@warnerbros
I hate that the MCU has pulled me back in enough to even ask this question, but are there Watchers actually hidden in a bunch of Phases 4, 5, and 6 and no one noticed?
🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.
ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.
I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.
Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/8Kg8FOrgHW
NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos
“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms...
They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs.
Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me.
So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page.
Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube.
Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”
@DnDBeyond As a web developer I really want to see the dev team struggle with the product manager that asks this exact UI and animation more than i want to see more woke d&d. That would be fun to see.
@Wizards_DnD DO you? Do you want to hear from me? a 40 year old straight man who can and did buy the 3 physical and digital main books? Because it doesn't seem you do. I wnt to a store for D&D boks and became a warhammer 40.000 fan. Now i can kill orcs like Aragorn.