Jaina Rodríguez-Grey

@jainarodriguez.bsky.social

18+ only | seattle-based journalist | culture, games, music | chicana in the pnw blog: cherry.news bylines at: Gamespot, The Guardian, Vice, WIRED, Reuters, and more signal: jaina.04 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽 🏳️‍🌈

it feels mean to tell cishet guys on dating apps that I’m not looking for anything more than fwb. but then they press and i feel bad being honest. like, bro, even if we hit it off, ill never love you the way i can love a girl. that part of me was broken years ago and it’s never coming back.

as a mexican american i have a lot of feelings about spain, but there are three things i gotta hand it to the spanish for: paella, la destreza, and spooky catholic pageantry. fuckin conquistadores were really cookin when it comes to seafood dishes, fencing, making scary hats. which honestly tracks.

Saber finally added the AI disclosure to Steam for Rideshare “Stimulator” and it’s even worse than I said it was. I can see why the CEO crashed out when I pointed it out.

Al Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses Al

Generated Content like this:
The main Campaign story, characters, and dialogue are written by a team of human writers. Al tools are used for voice generation and some localization.

The optional Free Ride mode includes Al-generated passenger missions and localized dialogue. Free Ride mode is separate from the main Campaign and can be skipped by players who prefer to experience only human-written narrative content.

The game also includes a mix of radio stations featuring human-made music and Al-generated music. Stations containing Al-generated music are clearly labeled as such in the game.

fuck that one: they’re not reporters, two: they’re not AI. tech journalists in this space really need to double down on specific language, not perpetuating a narrative that benefits “AI” companies. we need to normalize calling them what they are: large language models.

A screenshot from WIRED, with the headline “oh lord ai reporters are actually breaking news” and the dek: “last week an ai newsroom beat mainstream journalists including Wired to a story about openAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning”