That’s how freemium works: fIrst get you hooked, then make you pay.

“Mom! Mom! After years of hard work and study I’ve finally managed to become a scientist.”

“That’s awesome, honey! What do you do?”

“I make bread out of stuff from dead peoples’ guts.”

“…”

Looks like they are screwed.

Pro tip: stop fucking around with other countries and your problems are solved.

In fact, you can.

How good it will be, how performant and how fast you’ll have it ready is an entirely different question.

There are plenty of open source models though that can be run locally. So getting a beefy server and running a local LLM there might already do sobe of the tasks you need the big babble machines for.

Devs cannot just use a different platform without cutting out a huge userbase.

Most gamers I know, don’t care that much about where they get their games from. Heck, they would buy it from a dubious guy with USB sticks who is travelling on a donkey, if they had to.

Make a good game and people will follow.

I suppose the issue is rather about discoverability and getting people to learn about a game they might like. But steam is not necessarily easier in that regard. You’d still need to do some marketing to get the word around. If you’re lucky by scratching the itch of a lot of people, steam can boost sales by its trending and discovery lists, sales highlights, etc. But that’s not easy to achieve just by choosing steam as a distribution platform.

Are those zombees?

Hot take: you can critcise LLMs without having to belive in magical sky people.

Okay, but how about we eat the rich instead?

Stop using Google products. Google is evil.

If you see learning the mechanisms as part of the challenge and journey that’s fine. If you want to understand how something works and why, then doing it yourself is the best approach. If you just care about something that should ‘just work’ without wanting or needing to understand the machinery, then of course, reinventing the wheel is not the best approach.

“Alexa, pls stop spying on me. Ok? Thx.”

Tesla? Legendary? For trapping people and burning them alive? Already done multiple times throughout history.

Stop using Google. Google is evil.

Skill issue. /j

The study is more correlation than causality. Even though they tried to be careful they did not (and can’t) account for a plethora of confounding factors, which – especially with depression – is particularly problematic.

They provide a plausible explanation for a causal pathway, but did not prove it. This provides a testable hypothesis, which is why I would read this more like “more research needed”, rather than definitive proof. I wouldn’t go as far as to say “eat an orange a day, to keep depression away”. Although it probably wouldn’t hurt to eat some more fruit, given how bad the fruit content in most people’s diet is anyway.

So this is, unfortunately, a rather sensationalist takeaway you’ve provided here, OP. But that’s the curse of how we’re doing capitalism. Even ‘top research universities’ like Harvard need to be sensationalist to attract some publicity and get their research funded.

It’s everybody’s responsibility to get fucking literate in the use of media. Examples like these are harmless and just point out how easy it is for malicious actors, be it states, political partys, or other groups and individuals, to spread misinformation.
The use of AI tools such as LLMs makes this even more important.

My therapist already knows. Not much we can currently do about it. There is also plenty to deal with so this is also conparably low on the priority list.

It helps to survive. You can still critizice the fucked system while suffering less from it. Often that’s the best one can do.

I have been and still am in therapy for a couple of years now. I would still like to be lost at sea to get such a break. (Provided I can easily survive that.)