I saw it here

The Nigerian government also confirmed the US attack on Friday. The Foreign Ministry stated that such operations were part of ongoing security cooperation with the US, which had led to “precision strikes on terrorist targets” in the northwest of the country

It should be mentioned that the Nigerian government says they requested the strike

“They lied” implies intent to deceive.

I’m still not arguing against their disqualification, I’m saying people need to lay off the sauce - it’s not hard to imagine how this could have been accidental and not malicious.

We don’t need to torch an effigy every time a studio mentions AI in an interview.

Still, there’s a lot of room there for some grace. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to strip them of the award, but the level of outrage I’m seeing in this thread and elsewhere isn’t proportionate to the offense.

People really need to chill with this.

People keep saying the problem ‘wasnt that they used AI placeholder assets, it’s that they lied on the disclosure’, but boy does that still seem like a reach

When you have dozens of people working on a huge creative project, it would take an almost omniscient creative director to know where every asset in every scene came from with certainty. It isn’t hard to imagine a designer somewhere on the team sneaking an AI asset into a pre-release build and forgetting about it. The fact that it was later disclosed suggests that whoever was applying for the award wasn’t aware of that asset being used and then replaced at the time of submission.

I dont mind having some awards dedicated to genAI-free works, but people really need to stop getting their pitchforks out at every mention, otherwise they risk turning into a lynch mob. This doesnt sound like an intentional omission to me.

“Honey, all I need is $10,000 for a server and we’ll never pay for Spotify again”

14 years of experience has made me much more sympathetic to that man than I was when this first went viral

I have definitely had this experience with my dog, except it was a flock of ducks and he swam halfway across a lake after them

China has many more socialized services and their income level is far less indicative of overall quality of life

It has honestly been a long time since I heard someone in the west suggest the chinese economy is struggling at all - i thought maybe something meaningful had happened in the last week or something that changed that picture

“Capitalism isn’t the problem, THIS is”

* points to the main thing capitalism does *

A perfect example of how and why capitalism creates and entrenches poverty.

Oh my god they’re actually doing the south park bit

China could literally solving world hunger and the US press would complain about it being a plot to ruin US farmers.

In theory, sure - it’s only a concern if you have a work-managed device.

In concept, though, there are more parties with partial control/access to your device from whom you only have a tenuous protection at-best.

Normalizing the practice of automatic archival of encrypted communication is bad. I don’t think that’s a particularly spicy take. “They say it won’t be used except in these specific circumstances” is no better than a fig-leaf, especially when those types of promises have been repeatedly broken.

An archiving feature that highlights a reality that many people arent already aware of - that encryption is meaningless if you dont have ultimate control of the device you are decrypting it on.

Each morning I wake up and think to myself, “what fresh new hell awaits me today?”

There are no caveats to this that can make me feel better about it. This is a normalization of what I already new to be true - that my phone has never actually been mine, and any controll I thought i had can and will be taken from me at any moment.

Does it really? I don’t find it to be a challenging distinction at all

private property, distinct from personal property.

The exploitation of private property is derived from the exclusion of labor from its product - maybe you have a different understanding of what ‘theft’ means, but it’s the principled exclusion of what labor produces from the labor producing it that is the basis of marx’s claim of ‘exploitation’

AI is theft in the same way that all private property theft. It isnt the piracy of media, it’s the alienation of labor from its product, and withholding it for profit.