Amongst other things, yes.

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Activision User Research Union-CWA is the first group of video game user researchers to form a union

So what exactly about their users do they research?

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Man, this current age of AI really sucks.

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From the article …

GNOME sysadmin Bart Piotrowski shared on Mastodon that only about 3.2 percent of requests (2,690 out of 84,056) passed their challenge system, suggesting the vast majority of traffic was automated.

Great to hear! Way overdue. That industry really needs some of those protections.

From the article …

The launch will be formally announced at the 2025 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, Calif., the world’s largest industry event for video game professionals, where workers will be joined by other CWA members to launch this powerful new organization.

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From the article…

Surprisingly, premium paid versions of these AI search tools fared even worse in certain respects. Perplexity Pro ($20/month) and Grok 3’s premium service ($40/month) confidently delivered incorrect responses more often than their free counterparts.

Though these premium models correctly answered a higher number of prompts, their reluctance to decline uncertain responses drove higher overall error rates.

From the article …

And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF’s front door in early 2006 with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.

The article is a good read, short. Worth your time.

And Mr. Klein, if you’re out there, thank you for your service. /heart-to-chest-salute

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God damn why’s the world so shit

Society empowers and encourages shitty people that only care about their own kind/tribe, is why.

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Well, if there was any doubt before, with the weird ToS p.r. dance they were doing last week, now we know, for sure.

I’ve already switched to LibreWolf on the desktop. Is there a good non-Firefox browser for Android available?

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Either involuntary AI generated pornography is wrong or it isn’t.

Agree. Laws have to be applied evenly, or else they are not Laws.

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From the article…

But while many think that YouTube’s system isn’t great, Trendacosta also said that she “can’t think of a way to build the match technology” to improve it, because “machines cannot tell context.” Perhaps if YouTube’s matching technology triggered a human review each time, “that might be tenable,” but “they would have to hire so many more people to do it.”

That’s what it comes down to, right there.

Google needs to spend money on people, and not just rely on the AI automation, because it’s obviously getting things wrong, its not judging context correctly.

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FYI, the cross-posted OP (link above) was mod removed by the Discord forum ‘admin’ on 2024-01-19 as being “False claim, false interpreted”, so the above link in the OP will no longer work.

EDIT: Nine months later, its back. I do stand by what I said originally, as the verbage was taken directly from the message I saw when trying the link days later after it was initially posted.