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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Begun, the AI Wars Have!
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:46:37 -0700
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On 3/22/2025 11:20 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 18:09 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>
>> Hate AI? then why not use an AI-powered service to detect and warn you
>> about AI! That's the purpose of Razer (maker of overpriced mice) in a
>> newly announced partnership program that creates a protocol that
>> verifies that gamers are real-human-gamers and not bots.* It's a
>> single-sign-on that lets you log into the Razer ecosystem for
>> 'enhanced trust and security' to 'enable “human-only” gameplay modes
>> is key to fostering fair competition and a more trusted gaming
>> environment'.
>>
>> I'm sure it will work just about as well as the bogus N95 masks did.
>> I mean, pretty much the only ones buying into Razer's '1337 gamer
>> lifestyle brand schtick are the ones most likely to be botting in the
>> first place. And apparently a big part of this partnership is to make
>> it easier for people to sell NFTs. Nothing like associating yourself
>> with a pyramid scam while promoting it as a 'trustworthy' product.
>>
>> Man, Razer used to be known for... well, not great mice, but they
>> weren't bad. But every new thing I hear about them, they're just
>> dredging the bottom of the barrel deeper and deeper. But AI is the new
>> hottness for tech companies that have no vision or ideas of their own,
>> so it's no surprise that Razer is chasing after it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> * why look, here's a link!
>> https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250317093836/en/Razer-and-World-Team-Up-to-Combat-Third-Party-Bots-in-Online-Games-in-the-Age-of-AI-Gaming
> 
> 
> This just feels like cynical manipulation to get AI haters to invest.
> Line go up..

In my office we had to take an on-line training course about how to 
properly use AI.  When I finished it I saw, and told others in the 
office about, the part of the legal language disclaimer boilerplate that 
said that AI had been used in creating the training on AI.

We lost the war before we even knew there was going to be one.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.