• 7 Posts
  • 186 Comments
Joined 4 months ago
cake
Cake day: March 16th, 2024

help-circle


  • Basically it is going the following way:

    • Company gets AI to do stuff.
    • Company fires its workforce.
    • AI isn’t up to the task, and often disliked by people, see its unpopularity in the arts.
    • Company has to rehire staff, first to try to salvage the AI’s output, then to just go back to the good old days of human creativity.

    AI isn’t magic, no matter how much techbros try to humanize the technology because NeuRAl nEtWOrKs.






  • And then three things happened at once

    1. Creative de-facto monopolized the industry often by unethical means (suing Aureal into bankruptcy, etc.), not letting much room for competitors, which in turn lead to diminishing quality on the part of Creative.
    2. Microsoft didn’t put hardware acceleration support into XAudio, which superseeded DirectSound.
    3. Game publishers realized the vast majority of gamers didn’t care about sound quality, so they could spent those resources on making the games look a little bit more realistic.











  • I also left it for the most part (only there to squat my user handle - I have some enemies), and I’m better without it. Even before the Muskrat overtake, its algorithm often bought the worst out of me, and I had to realize that wasn’t me. After that, it became worse than the forums from the late 2000’s that were overtaken by a few moderators to turn them into “free speech zone”, except they liked to harass people for having “dumb opinions”, one of which was not liking racism, and those admins also liked to claim PoC robbing whites are a “race motivated crime”.

    I like the smaller communities of the Fediverse, I even started to remember usernames and avatars here on lemmy (and before that, kbin) without having a follow function I know of. When I was on Reddit, I felt massively alienated, didn’t know anyone there really, and the place got more and more dominated by a select few toxic individuals.