Notes for Week 35, 2024

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  • Hyundai have shown off a striking new car, inspired by retro 1980s vehicles but updated for a modern audience. It's very reminiscent of the cars in the Cyberpunk game. And my word, am I here for it. As someone getting a new, sleek family car next year, I would absolutely pick one of these kinds of things up as a second car as the kids get a bit older. I love it. I would love to see more of this, and to see them even be modifiable, kind-of like the Jimny!

  • I waxed lyrical last week about Twitter. And I've done so on various occasions over the years, as it was the only social media outlet that I really engaged with properly. I made friends on it, went to Tweetups, and was persistently active on it from around 2008 to a few years ago, when Melon purchased it. And now it looks like Brazil are going to ban it as they're delayed in a court-ordered compliance issue. And I imagine the EU will do the same. I think the fact that Melon fired everyone makes this a lot easier, as the risk to the jobs market is a lot less now. Facebook should face the same fate, but they're such a huge employer that it becomes a more delicate political balancing act.
  • I spotted a gushing review of some Google engineered AI project to re-create DOOM from scratch. And when you see the video, yep, it's definitely DOOM. But there's some cognitive dissonance happening, where the author of the post is gushing about how clever the tech is to be able to create a game, from scratch, without a specific game engine. At no point did the author note, or come to terms with the fact that this is clearly stolen. AI didn't recreate DOOM beat-for-beat, it stole it. It saw a video, and sure, maybe created it as a software product that could be interacted with (you know, a game), but it stole it. It didn't create something new or interesting.
  • Speaking of AI, as we see more AI proliferating in photography to re-create the image or insert new content into existing works, we need to be careful. I see no value in an AI being asked to add a person, vehicle or element to a photo beyond nefarious shithousery. This is going to be used as wonky proof of something bad happening to influence opinion, a court, a political movement, insurance claims, etc.

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Published on: 31st August, 2024

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