Recent content by zztong

I can't really add anything to the discussion in terms of facts about what happened or is happening, but... I would point out I don't see a criminal angle here. The Creator Program would be contract law, copyright is civil law, and any NDA dispute would be civil law unless the "US Economic...

It would be neat if you built the coop out of blocks and just needed a marker (like a land claim block) to designate it.

Identity compromised. Destruction mode activated.

Interesting. I assume that's per player, as on the server my friends and I are playing, we get repeats. Is that a global 30-day cool down? If so, on a busy server, a new player may not have any local choices?

Oh no. I've not had a chance to test anything. I'll have to watch this thread with interest.

I thought I would add my experiences attempting to detect AI in student work. AI detector software isn't reliable. We know this from multiple studies. My own writing gets flagged as AI generated. One of my colleagues retired because he loved the written word and couldn't handle the notion that...

Once again, I cannot tell. The trouble I have is the art style doesn't let me compare it to something. The "Scavenger", "Nomad", etc. do seem like things I have had AI produce, so if this were some kind of blind test where we try to pick which is AI and which is Human, I would pick those, but I...

Ouch. When I started in IT decades ago, we would say our programs empowered employees to do more, and that was true for quite a while. We're somewhere around an inflection point where that changed, and I think it is behind us by maybe a decade. Now it seems more obvious to me the system we...

Perhaps. Predicting the future is hard, but I suspect there will be a rebound. I mean, older employees are still retiring. At some point, replacements are needed. I also wonder if this might fuel a rise in entrepreneurship. That is, faced with fewer employment options more people start...

It's water under the bridge, but shower me with Cookie emojis if you like. I like cookies. EDIT: I feel bad for the artist. I used to like to use the M-dash in writing, and that was destroyed by AI. Now any writing with an M-dash is immediately suspect. Also, as Paul Roetzer said when speaking...

I was thinking they were leather boots or wraps.

I would roll this into settlement definitions. That is, I would make it so that one type of settlement was a "predesigned" (versus an RNG) settlement and let the layout of Tiles be expressed in XML. I think this would improve Western Town plus allow for an Airport settlement.

Stray thought: You can feed corn to chickens, but not Super Corn? I wonder what would happen if a Chicken ate Super Corn. Might you get more output in exchange for a greater chance of chicken rebellion? Are coyote's and wolves attracted to Chicken Coops?

Interesting. I had looked up what chickens eat already, but looked more at "what to feed chicken" sites. Oddly enough, rotting meat was discouraged. I thought it strange somebody would think to say that, but your comment perhaps explains it.

I can see why somebody might conclude "cheap and stupid." I'm not going to find a place on my wall to hang it. However, I'm not so sure it is AI generated. I can only shrug and say "maybe?" I know nothing about art and style, so my inability to spot or recognize something for what it is doesn't...