I could imagine they increasingly don’t trust politicians either.
It’s almost as if there is a pattern there isn’t it?
Maybe we are being filled with more bullshit all around than we have ever been!

You have convinced me. 👍

True, but as I understand it, the sales of physical media is dwindling fast.
Maybe Sony shouldn’t kill it, but let it die out by itself, but maybe that’s what they consider this is?
Unfortunately dropping physical media has many advantages for Sony, but probably not for the customer.
We will see if customers can create a shitstorm big enough to make them change their mind as Microsoft did pretty quickly back when they announced it, because the shitstorm was enormous, and Sony scored huge points on announcing continued support back then.
Kind of Ironic that Sony is the one to end it now. Ah well, maybe this will help Xbox become more competitive again.
But remember a big reason Sony did it back then was to keep Blu-Ray alive. And I don’t think that is commercially relevant for them either anymore.

Sony is very well aware of the popularity of physical media for games. 80% of their sales are digital, and cost are higher for physical media, and the share is declining.

Don’t ever think there is a gotcha moment on this issue that Sony wasn’t aware of. They’ve been in this business for 30+ years.

They support physical media until 2028, after which new games will not come out on physical media anymore.
It’s not like Microsoft that tried to launch a new console, that out of the blue abandoned support for physical media.

It reeks of dishonesty. Very clearly they used AI, just not VERY SPECIFICALLY for the thing they were accused of firing a person over?

Weird AI disclosure:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366590/Rideshare_Stimulator/

AI Generated Content Disclosure:
The main Campaign story, characters, and dialogue are written by a team of human writers.

Why would you put in things that specifically are not AI in an AI disclosure?
Is that normal?

We promise to not use your data for AI if you press this button.

Terms of use.
We reserve the right to use data you enter to <long description of obvious necessary uses for the platform to work> and to help the platform. (Meaning we take ownership of the data)

We will only use your data after it has been submitted, at which point it is now OUR data SUCKEERR. 🤣 🤡

There is no such thing as enough data, probably more that users are catching on and complaining.

The fact that users have been automatically opted in to this AI training for years is causing a lot of anger.

But it’s mostly a placebo button:

opting out will not prevent your data being used if you chat on someone else’s stream

You can say no, except not really.