so the names of the ai characters HAVE to be stored in game....
Some games also generate names oh the fly based on rules. For example, KSP stitches names together based on a pre- and suffix and then rejects a few unfortunate possible combinations such as Dildo, prompting a reroll.
I suspect with your game, they just fed it a dictionary of common words though without properly vetting it.
I initially read it as the patients needing insurance to receive those abortions. Or in other words, them not getting medically required abortions if uninsured.
We had legendary Eldrazi before if they were eldritch corruptions of things that are legendary, e.g. Brisela.
Now in this set already has two Legendary Eldrazi that don't seem to fit this pattern. Zhulodok you could argue is an Eldrazi version of Maelstrom Wanderer (although probably not actually the original one corrupted). For this one I cannot even come up with an excuse if I try though. Deep down we all know the reason is "So that it can be your commander".
Yeah, if Mozilla's goal is 1200 clips/day and 2400 validations/day then I have a strong suspicion that Stellaris uses a pretrained model and there are no royalties for the people whose voices were used for the pretraining. Not that it would be feasible to spread royalties among that many people in the first place.
What could point against that suspicion though is that Stellaris doesn't need a "perfect" model so maybe they can get away with much, much less. After all the whole gimmick is that it is in-universe AI. A (near-)flawless model would be (near-)indistinguishable from a regular voice actor. Then there would've been no need to hire a bunch of voice actors to train an AI in the first place.
Assuming that it is pretrained -> finetued though, the only hope is that those initial files were donated willingly and not scraped somewhere. Otherwise their "ethical" argument goes out the window.
I'm not really up-to-date on voice synthesis. Have we reached the point where we can get enough training data from just a handful of voice actors to train a model of this quality?
Or is this a case of them using those voice actors for fine-tuning a pretrained model and just being quiet about that?
IIRC in 2003 t.A.T.u. was threatened that the live coverage would be replaced with a recording of the rehearsal if they changed up anything during their performance and kissed on stage (gasp the horror). I would assume they're ready to do something similar today just to stop anyone speaking up in favor of Palestine, in favor of Joost or critical towards Israel from being broadcast.
I'm leaving my review as is. Sony trying this and saying in their tweet that they're "still learning what's best for PC players" does not instill me with enough confidence to give it a thumbs up.
As you mentioned, it's a lot easier to lose trust than to (re)earn it.
I'm still not 100% trusting that. Any time a dev comes up with a new feature like this one, they might forget to implement a check if the game is privated (or do the check and mess up properly hiding it).
On my Android I can scan the wrong finger a few times and it'll ask for my pin instead. I'm pretty sure rebooting would do the same but I'm too lazy to try that right now.
However, please make sure you try this yourself for your specific phone and Android version before relying on it.
I'd argue that with their definition of bots as "a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet" and later their definition of download bots as "Download bots are automated programs that can be used to automatically download software or mobile apps.", automated software updates could absolutely be counted as bot activity by them.
Of course, if they count it as such, the traffic generated that way would fall into the 17.3% "good bot" traffic and not in the 30.2% "bad bot" traffic.
Looking at their report, without digging too deep into it, I also find it concerning that they seem to use "internet traffic" and "website traffic" interchangeably.
Funny because all they have to do is ask ChatGPT "Are you always right?" and it'll answer something about it trying to always be right but indeed not always being right.
Somehow Roblox has become the Metaverse Meta was trying to build...