As a laugh, I've been blocking advertisers on here for about 7 years. My fun has come to an end as now when I block an advertiser I get a pop-up telling me to upgrade to premium. There is no way to close the pop-up short of killing the browser window.
@vanessainstem Remember that this is *supposed* to be the worst research you will ever do and have faith that you will be better at future research because of the lessons you've learned here.
@Azerrz@mrpyo1 The first crystalizing event that I recall was Jack Thompson's attacks against Grand Theft Auto. Groups of "gamers" have been in search of a bad guy ever since and happily accepted targets from more covert far right groups.
@ASmallFiction Here we are, five years later. Someone randomly liked the tweet so I can now confirm that I've successfully used this. It showed up in a magic shop.
@o76923 @MitchellAHorton@CaseyExplosion There's no reason a sufficiently sophisticated game dev wouldn't opt to include a smaller model than something from open AI and not require it to make a call to the cloud. You are only dependent on the size of the model if someone else is managing it.
@MitchellAHorton@PaperMartinDev@CaseyExplosion Netflix probably spends about that much on infrastructure also, but that isn't evidence that playing a movie is impossible for your gaming PC.
@MitchellAHorton@PaperMartinDev@CaseyExplosion Yes, but consider what ChatGPT has to do as a service: be available and scale to a massive number of requests from around the world, fallbacks in case of failures, secure against breaches, etc. None of that needs to happen if a pretrained model is running locally.
@CaseyExplosion Text generation for dialog in a video game could be done locally, but it is not the "off the shelf" solution that making a call to an API is. Small low effort games will fail when the API changes.
AAA games will use it to justify always on DRM, but it won't add much else.
@CaseyExplosion Well, plus or minus in this case. The major expense comes from training the LLM, not running it. AI grifters link back to cloud based solutions because they don't have the technical sophistication to run it locally.