Gotta fire all the DEI hires. Not white? You’re outta here. Not male? Outta here. Gay? Outta here.

This would be expensive, time consuming, and utterly useless.

Automated scans are going to be just as useful, if not more useful, than manual auditing. Not to mention, manual auditing is useless in 99% of cases unless you’re also submitting source code. And even then, if you offer any sort of streaming of assets, you can simply not turn on the exploit download until after the review process. That isn’t even mentioning the issues with uploading source code.

This simply isn’t an issue you can throw money or manpower at. Really, users need to be more educated, which is something valve can do.

Care to elaborate, or are you just saying things to get a reaction?

There are also plenty of people who wear glasses who don’t need them. It’s weird to act like Plano lenses don’t exist.

“This is a threat to our democracy”

Show more baby, show more!

O.o Should I be concerned that this is surprising?

Let people like what they like. If it’s a fad, it’ll pass but until people are legitimately hurting themselves or others over it, just let people enjoy things they enjoy.

The funny part is, this means anyone coming in is all but guaranteed to be paid less than an American to do the same job, because the company is likely to consider that 100k part of the employees compensation.

To be clear, webp isn’t even a lossy format. I mean, it can be, but it can also be lossless.

Cloudflare zero trust apps allow webp images on initial creation, then arbitrarily disallow webp on edit. You can’t edit until you replace the image you already uploaded, and the system accepted.

No one in the comments seems to understand why this is relevant. This is the opposite of the normal pattern of prices dropping as time goes on, solely because of trumps tariffs.

This isn’t a “oh I’m not making enough money” situation, this is a “oh if I sell it for the current price I’m losing money” situation.

Could some of it also be corpo greed? Absolutely. But the core reason for the price increases is trump, and his republican lackies.

Don’t let them pawn off blame to the companies.

That isn’t the point…

It really depends. A local machine is guaranteed to not have issues if the general internet goes down. It’s also going to reduce latency considerably.

There are many reasons to have a dev box local to the demonstration. Just because they wouldn’t deploy it that way in production doesn’t mean they wouldn’t deploy a demo in that same way.

If this was a tech demo, it tracks that they wouldn’t be using overpowered hardware. Why lug around a full server when they can just load up the software on a laptop, considering they weren’t expecting hundreds of invokes at the exact same moment.

Yes

That’s what I mean though. Convincing users to not use LLMs as a way to reduce CO2 is a fools errand. It will never work. So we should focus on something that can actually move the needle, like speeding up the move to a fully green grid.

Kings Quest? Poppy Playhouse?

Reducing CO2 emissions by not doing LLM slop is apparently off the table.

Not to be argumentative, but has this ever been something the consumer market has done with an emerging “core” technology? I don’t see how this was ever realistically on the table.

AI slop is an unfortunate fact of life at this point. If it’s inevitable, we may as well make it as not terrible as possible.

I’m sure there are some out there, but I doubt many could manage one on one.