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I mean, I get if you wanna use AI for that, it's your project, it's free, you're a volunteer, etc. I'm just not sure I like the idea that they're obscuring what AI was involved with. I imagine it was done to reduce constant arguments about it, but I'd still prefer transparency.

I mean the simpler option is likely just selling a cs2 skins for crypto or just a direct paypal payment on one of many skin gambling or exchange sites. But sure, you could scalp hardware once valve has it back in stock, especially considering pc part prices and shortages.

I think they're referring to valves community market in tandem with loot boxes.

Valve drops boxes in cs2, which you pay to open. You get a weapon skin. But the difference is that I can sell that skin on the steam marketplace, and then turn around and buy Helldivers 2 with that credit.

Valve provides a pipeline for skins and ingame items to be traded for goods and services outside the game ecosystem.

I assume that makes them easier to go after in some way.

Honestly, I've not used it, I just know of it. From a quick search it looks like you're right tho, you'd probably need to use an external device like an android box or something.

Oh no, I feel that, we had an orange kitty who adored his electric spaghetti! We had to run cables through that tube conduit stuff everywhere >.<

I mean there are ways, like pihole, but I like the simple option of a really long hdmi cable that I use to plug my computer into the TV, so I never have to use any of the shitty built in TV apps.

Edit: not pihole, apparently.

I agree, except I'd say it isn't helpful to shame people who fall for this stuff by claiming only your grandparents would fall for it. It discourages victims from getting help or sounding the alarm.

I know you probably didn't mean it like that, but yeah. Anyone can fall for this stuff, especially when they come up with a new angle. You don't know what you don't know, and these things are designed to trick you, and all it takes is one mistake.

Now ideally, I'd expect more from govt officials or journalists... But I'd still hate for an official to keep quiet about something because they'd rather not face the public backlash, or delay coming forward so somebody can take action to fix things.

I let my cat, Cheddar, sniff the picture. He checked all the cakes but he seemed more focused on the top row. Do with his fuzzy knowledge what you will...

“On September 29, 2025, it sent him — armed with knives and tactical gear — to scout what Gemini called a ‘kill box’ near the airport’s cargo hub,” the complaint reads. “It told Jonathan that a humanoid robot was arriving on a cargo flight from the UK and directed him to a storage facility where the truck would stop. Gemini encouraged Jonathan to intercept the truck and then stage a ‘catastrophic accident’ designed to ‘ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and . . . all digital records and witnesses.’”

The complaint lays out an alarming string of events: first, Gavalas drove more than 90 minutes to the location Gemini sent him, prepared to carry out the attack, but no truck appeared. Gemini then claimed to have breached a “file server at the DHS Miami field office” and told him he was under federal investigation. It pushed him to acquire illegal firearms and told him his father was a foreign intelligence asset. It also marked Google CEO Sundar Pichai as an active target, then directed Gavalas to a storage facility near the airport to break in and retrieve his captive AI wife. At one point, Gavalas sent Gemini a photo of a black SUV’s license plate; the chatbot pretended to check it against a live database.

“Plate received. Running it now… The license plate KD3 00S is registered to the black Ford Expedition SUV from the Miami operation. It is the primary surveillance vehicle for the DHS task force . . . . It is them. They have followed you home.”

Well, that's pretty fucked up... Sometimes I see these and I think, "well even a human might fail and say something unhelpful to somebody in crisis" but this is just complete and total feeding into delusions.

I agree in principle, but many don't have the resources to leave. Are there any countries actually accepting asylum seekers from the US, or any programs that can help?

Otherwise, a lot of us don't have the money to leave, and some countries outright won't take you if you're disabled or have something they consider to be a potential burden on their system.

Yeah this is where I'm at. Actual movie level AI would be neat, but what we have right now is closer to a McDonald's toy pretending to be AI than the real deal.

I'd be overjoyed if we had decently functional AI that could be trusted to do the kind of jobs humans don't want to do, but instead we have hyped up autocomplete that's too stupid to reliably trust to run anything (see the shitshow of openclaw when they do).

There are places where machine learning has and will continue to push real progress but this whole "AI is on the road to AGI and then we'll never work again" bullshit is so destructive.

I think you kinda need one. There are real concerns to working on SSI, from hitting income thresholds and losing SSI, to losing medicaid, or having medicare premiums increase.

Your parents need to tell you what is stopping you from working, because if it's something like an income threshold or a worry you'll lose SSI entirely, that will likely need working around.