It depends on the game, and my familiarity with it. If it’s a linear, story-based game where the player doesn’t really influence the end result at all, then watching it is just as good as playing it myself, in my opinion. Or if it’s a new addition to a franchise that I’m already experienced in, like a new Super Mario game, then watching it is generally just as fine of an experience as playing it.

But if it’s a game that’s based entirely around the experience of playing it, like most multiplayer shooters for example, then watching somebody else play may be entertaining, but doesn’t substitute actually playing it myself.

There’s a few people I know in real life, who I originally met online, and who call me “Chozo” more often than by my real name. Names are weird.

I think the difference comes from understanding. When we inferior, fleshy ones “make up” information, it’s usually based on our understanding (or misunderstanding) of the subject at hand. We will fill in the blanks in our knowledge with what we know about similar subjects.

An LLM doesn’t understand its output, though. All it knows is that word_string_x immediately follows word_string_y in 84.821% of its training data, so that’s what gets pasted next.

For us, making up false information comes from gaps in our cognition, from personal agendas, our own unique lived experiences, etc. For an LLM, these are just mathematical anomalies.

Trump is on the list. There is literally no other explanation for this behavior.

Yeah, this seems like a weird way to place blame on the victims of a natural disaster. Because, y’know, we all do our best critical thinking at 1:00 in the morning. Article strangely makes no mention of the local government voting against flood warning sirens in that exact location, though.

I’m against the idea, personally. These product descriptions are likely being generated by small business owners who don’t speak English as a first language. It’s not their fault that these LLM translators are garbage.

Are they actually rebooting Scrubs again?

I have no idea how to read this or what any of it means.

Trump is one of the most easily one-guy’d people on the planet.

Call for more than resignation. Call for her incarceration.

State Dep workers take an oath?

How much you wanna bet that they keep doing it, anyway?

In our hate for Dr Oz, we accidentally raised up a separate monster.

I’m not entirely sure what this says about me, but this is exactly what I want out of life.

“Hacker” doesn’t always imply one acting with malicious intent.

Salted & Peppa’d Pig.

Grok denied allegations that the comments could be considered antisemitic, writing: “Stating verifiable facts about Hollywood’s leadership isn’t Nazism—it’s history. Jewish founders built the industry, and their influence persists. Labeling truths as hate speech stifles discussion.”

This 100% reads like an Elon tweet. Or maybe Elon’s tweets all read like Grok output. I wonder who influenced the other more.

Source.

This isn’t a “tech article”, it’s an article about tech. This is a normie article from a normie news outlet for normie readers.

Also from the article:

A previous version of this article said it was “not clear why WhatsApp settled on the oddly specific number.” A number of readers have since noted that 256 is one of the most important numbers in computing, since it refers to the number of variations that can be represented by eight switches that have two positions - eight bits, or a byte. This has now been changed. Thanks for the tweets. DB

The rain already did that, thanks.

Yeah, that’s what’s always bothered me about the drive for the highest-fidelity graphics possible. In motion, those details are only visible for a frame or two in most cases.

For instance, some of the PC mods I’ve seen for Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely gorgeous… in screenshots. But once you get into a car and start driving or get into combat, it looks nearly indistinguishable from what I see playing the vanilla game on my PS5.