• 6 Posts
  • 24 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • GeneralRetreat@beehaw.orgOPtoGaming@beehaw.org•Here, have some more Freelancer
    3·
    1 year ago

    The mod has been consistently going since 2005, so they’ve had a lot of time to build up assets! There’s a lot of snazzy new features, but everything still aims to integrate with Freelancer’s original setting and lore. Mixed success, but it works more often than not. There’s a community Discord if you wanted to take a look around or ask questions.

  • GeneralRetreat@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem
    8·
    1 year ago

    since C2PA relies on creators to opt in, the protocol doesn’t really address the problem of bad actors using AI-generated content. And it’s not yet clear just how helpful the provision of metadata will be when it comes to media fluency of the public. Provenance labels do not necessarily mention whether the content is true or accurate.

    Interesting approach, but I can’t help but feel the actual utility is fairly limited. For example, I could see it being useful for large corporate creative studios that have contractual / union agreements that govern AI content usage.

    If they’re using enterprise tools that build in C2PA, it’d give them a metadata audit trail showing exactly when and where AI was used.

    That’s completely useless in the context where AI content flagging is most useful though. As the quote says, this provenance data is applied at the point of creation, and in a world where there are open source branches of generation models, there’s no way to ensure provenance tagging is built in.

    This technology is most needed to combat AI powered misinformation campaigns, when that is the use case this is least able to address.

  • GeneralRetreat@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games
    15·
    1 year ago

    Data Protection shouldn’t be a relevant issue - at least not in the sense that it forcss them to delete accounts. When you process data under the GDPR, you have to identify a lawful basis.

    I assume that transactions through the eStore would be handled under the contract basis, with the hosting of the game in the library forming part of the contractual relationship. That would enable them to maintain an account for as long as the contractual relationship persisted.

    That basically means GDPR doesn’t force them to close an account, they close an account based on their policies because they choose to. That’ll be based on their T&Cs, so things will fundamentally circle back to whether their T&Cs are legitimate and lawful.

    It is possible that a data subject could potentially raise a claim for damages under the GDPR, on the grounds that the deletion of their account is a breach of contract that amounts to an availability data breach.

  • GeneralRetreat@beehaw.orgtoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit claiming they weren’t recovering deleted posts
    7·
    1 year ago

    When the ICO recieve a complaint they usually send an initial notification email to the data controller to advise that a case officer will be assigned in due course.

    Well, unless it relates to a serious or ongoing data breach, which tends to be triaged immediately into an active investigation.

    Initial notification letters do usually recommend trying to resolve the issue with the data subject in the interim though.

    That probably spooked Reddit into moving your case up the priority list as I imagine they’ve got a pretty substantial backlog of SAR, erasure and objection requests, considering the circumstances.

    The response window for most of those rights is 30 calendar days + extensions if applicable, so they could also have just been responding as late as allowed, accounting for aforementioned probable backlog.

    Do let us know when the ICO gets back to you though, will be fascinating to hear what they have to say.