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33, Leftist, He/They, Wheel of Time, Stormlight, Magic the Gathering, ATLA, AuDHD, Jeskai, Blue Ajah, Windrunner
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It can make any claim it wants. The person using the AI to generate the slop can have it say whatever they want. And if it’s spoken with authority, many will shrug it off.
That’s really dangerous when it’s more serious topics that not a lot of people have experience in.
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Now imagine if that claim wasn’t an innocuous claim for a trading card game. But much more serious. Like medical information, climate science, cybersecurity, history.
That is the danger.
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You have to know enough about Magic to know what Standard is, how it works, how rotation works, and be able to navigate card databases to check for last legal standard printings. It’s easy enough to do thanks to scryfall, but it still requires some degree of knowledge about the game.
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Lightning Greaves saw its last printing in Standard in a set released in 2003. It rotated out of Standard in 2005 and has not been reprinted once into Standard since.
This is why this claim is such a valuable microcosm for why AI slop is dangerous.
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To understand;
Standard is a format where the most recent 2 to 3 years of cards are legal. It is rotating. At rotation, all sets from a specific year are no longer legal.
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But the tip off that made me go “this is AI slop and good to discuss the dangers of AI” was a claim “Lightning Greaves is banned in standard, which makes sense, but is still legal in Commander and Modern.”
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The article was titled “Mark Rosewater says Lightning Greaves 0 equip cost was a mistake”.
If you go to Rosewater’s tumblr post on the topic, he said no such thing. He used the card Lightning Greaves to point to why 0 cost effects are hard for play design.
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Jak and Daxter, Perfect Dark, Sly Cooper…
I also want Sony to do ANYTHING with Bloodborne.
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Yay!!!
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Exactly!
Celebrate small things!
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They’ve kind of forgotten Star Fox and Wario Land existed.
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And why are 6 partisans allowed to dictate the law of the land for almost 400 million people?
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The only requirement to become an elected state official in Nebraska is a pulse and an (R) next to your name on the ballot.
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IT's a cross between chaos drafting and a Strictly Worse cube.
How Magic was meant to be played.
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I just shrug and move on.
If I don't like something, I don't like it. I don't rally and campaign and make constant jabs.
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I have never been so mad at a movie, video game, or book that I held a grudge.
I have criticisms of any media. But I haven't made any of it my entire personality for a decade. And I'll bring up some critiques from time to time. But they aren't "this is trash". They're "this decision didn't work".
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Why sneak in a jab at a movie that is 8 years old in a video for a completely unrelated thing?
It baffles me.
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And Cruise and McQuarrie have not missed as a duo yet.
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I really like the Last Jedi, and if I had a dollar for every video or joke made in a different video complaining about it, I'd be retired.
I tried watching a miniature painting video about thinning paint and they had to sneak in a jab at TLJ. I don't watch that channel now.
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I had a conversation with a colleague recently. And they said what I feel.
"It's a solution looking for a problem. Web3 had the same problem."
Which isn't how technological advancements have ever worked before in human history.
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In order for it to get to the point where it spits out anything remotely coherent, requires burning so much electricity and theft of all human data on the internet.
It is not intelligent. It is just a chess bot that randomizes pattern selection.
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It can't write anything meaningful, only spit out probability based answers from all human writing ever. Which isn't creative or new.
Any field where people think it may be useful, you still need expertise to actually parse the garbage anyway.
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I am increasingly wondering what the point of Gen AI even is.
It can't produce code that's remotely useable without expert review anyway, and often spits out unsafe garbage or stuff relying on deprecated libraries. Letting it do "boilerplate" atrophies those skills.
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Honest Trailers is slightly better than CinemaSins, but for a stretch of time in the early 2010s, a lot of media criticism people would consume was solely those two channels.
It did a lot of damage on perception of "plot hole" is criticism vs analyzing themes and character arcs.
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“And that’s how it should be.”
It takes a tremendous amount of growth and self reflection as an artist to point to the Oscar winner in your filmography and go, “I shouldn’t be the one to make it today and I probably shouldn’t have been then either.”
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Safari tells you in a new tab how many trackers it prevented, and Firefox has so many privacy tools available it allows for a lot on privacy as well.
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1. Chrome only comes preinstalled on ChromeOS.
2. Firefox and Safari are much, much better at preventing cookie tracking and traffic habit tracking. They actually do try to focus on user privacy compared to Chrome.
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And if you’re on the “why not use Chrome” train in 2025:
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Just test on other browsers
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…and it was easier to communicate to users directly that it was going away than to add a browser check and go through all the testing before releasing.
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Testing on Firefox works on any OS.
Plenty of developers have access to Safari as well.
It’s easier to test on other browsers than add a browser engine check. I speak from experience because some people were Internet Explorers 2 years ago…