pennomi

What a weird passive aggressive headline. A better default is a good thing, and doesn’t stop modders from doing their own thing.

Practicality beats purity.

It will be soon

Like every day? Yeah it’s worse now but Google is still useful for a lot of things.

That being said, I do have AdBlock so it’s a different internet for me.

Dead Internet theory has never been a bigger threat. I believe that’s the number one danger - endless quantities of advertising and spam shoved down our throats from every possible direction.

The system in place is “open weights” models. These AI companies don’t have a huge head start on the publicly available software, and if the value is there for a corporation, most any savvy solo engineer can slap together something similar.

Eh I’m fine with the illegal harvesting of data. It forces the courts to revisit the question of what copyright really is and hopefully erodes the stranglehold that copyright has on modern society.

Let the companies fight each other over whether it’s okay to pirate every video on YouTube. I’m waiting.

USA 2025

Different people like different things, believe it or not.

I mean, in D&D, people who become wizards basically do so by pirating spells from each other and trying to encrypt their own spellbooks with DRM.

I like to see more AI in 3D workflows. The hardest part is making those final assets game ready - the topology is usually awful.

Apparently they have code. I haven’t tried it yet though.