There is no benign use of LLMs (so-called AIs) when it's all based on copyright theft and abusive resources usage (energy, water, hardware)

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

I don't care what these "emerging technologies" do I'm upset at how utterly useless they are and the rapid amount of resources they consume. A data center should NOT take more energy than an entire STATE consuming thousands of gallons of water on the daily. For what? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

We're at the stage of the AI grift where major companies like Epic are openly using it... but aren't calling it "generative AI" because they know the majority hates it. They use euphemisms like "emerging technologies" now; be on the lookout for those, and call them out for what it actually is.

if you're not in the know, hourences leaving epic is the reddest red flag of all time

as predicted! There will be literally no point in anyone installing UE6 I would say "unless they roll back the AI and Verse shit", but that's the whole thing. We're only 8 versions into UE5, UE4 got to 27. UE6 is illegitimate, it's not anything *but* a product of ai psychosis

Hey!! If your company is giving you Juneteenth off tomorrow, take five minutes to read what the day is about and THEN drop a lil money at a Black-owned local business. Be real punk rock about it

no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different

Switch to Godot, say those who can actually code their own games. I’m not against the idea but the only way I managed to make a game for my masters was to use Playmaker in Unity. And now it’s the Unreal blueprints. Not everyone can code.

this bums me out!! one of the main reasons I’ve advocated for unreal over the years is cause of blueprints. it’s a fantastic way to prototype, and a great tool for non-coders to get things working. this will be a huge loss.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

There's so much to say about this, but what is particularly striking is that the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A. It appears that he was not going to share this fairly important detail unless asked..

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why

I no longer have any desire to "get into it" with a dev (large team, small team, individual) or a PR person doing outreach for a game about the use of A.I. I check the game out, see a disclosure and I'm out. I am trying HARD to refrain from "smell testing" games without disclosures. That's tough.

was gonna post something negative about genAI in gamedev but honestly I’m so over it just know if you make stuff and don’t want to use the plagiarism machines, you are wise and making a correct choice and will develop skills, tenacity and empathy with peers that will serve you well in the future

If you use AI for work that you personally consider repetitive or inconsequential, I simply do not value your opinions. QA, documentation, translation, art, code, design, production, audio, etc. all matters in equal capacity and the human efforts that go into all of them are irreplaceable.

Tired: Xbox appointed the head of AI because they want AI in everything. Wired: Xbox appointed the head of AI because being into AI means you're anti-worker.

The key thing to understand about this is that it is completely unnecessary. This is a corporation with basically infinite money. They don't have to destroy 30+ year studios to save their bottom line. They're doing this because they are evil.

Hey narrative folks! I'm back at work and we're back to hiring 🦾We have TWO senior writer roles to fill on my team. Apply here: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2216... #writing #narrative #videogames

Between Microsoft contributing to the Palestinian genocide, the constant increase of gen AI bullshit, and the layoffs/shuttering of studios, how can anyone support Microsoft/Xbox at this point? Anyway, play South of Midnight, Kiln and all the small games Microsoft loves to tout and hates to fund.

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

CFCs, NFTs, supersonic jets, industrial child labour, thalidomide, asbestos, leaded petrol, microbead cosmetics, radium cosmetics, tobacco, lootboxes, many pesticides, chemical weapons, overt eugenics, overt slavery & Zuck's metaverse Genies that have been or are in the process of being rebottled.

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

Truth. I've been wanting to learn 3D modeling since the pando started, because I have ideas I want to turn into 3D prints. Not ONCE did I ever think to type the idea into a water-wasting plagiarism machine to get an STL made. Fuck. That. Also, keep throwing me on anti-AI blocklists. I love it.

*deep breath* Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Stellan Skarsgård summing up the difference between social democracy & capitalism very succinctly.

Nice to finally get some numbers on the qualitative side. As I've suspected, AI code leads to lower quality software.

This statement I have seen way to often when game development companies get "caught" using AI. What ever happened to simple boxes or text placeholders? I was in game development and things were always done on paper / notepads first and assets were simplified or had a placeholder. Not this bullshit

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

And, being brutally honest here, if you can't imagine a prop in the game *before* seeing it, the problem is you. This is one of the most toxic traits that gets cultivated in AAA and no external tool will fix that.

i agree that llm code is in so many things already, but i don't agree that that means we should personally use it more or be happy about its use. if you are personally ok with ai code, so be it - but don't tell people that because "everyone" is jumping off a bridge that we should jump too.

in case it helps anyone to have the dots connected: this is another way AI is rapidly ruining the internet, taking one of our most useful information inventions in world history and polluting it irreversibly at an unprecedented rate, messing up our options to do things the old ways without AI, too

I WANT TO OWN MY MEDIA FUCKING TIRED OF RENTING BRAH

not many software development challenges have biblical parables about why they're direct curses from god for man's arrogance but localization is one of them

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Alt text: it's a setting in Windows 11 Settings under: "Time & language > Typing > Typing Insights" and it shows as toggled to On. The description below explains that Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type. I found it by searching "typing insights" in my start menu, personally.

Welp , time to cancel my automatic donation. :(

You actually can stop your boss from demanding you use it. My union contract says that my employer can't force workers to substitute AI for professional judgement and we have the right to bargain over impacts of any new technology roll-out.

if you’re feeling depressed about the AI changes announced by Google yesterday, let me bring some comfort: some of us are still trying to build AI-free products, and as long as there’s people willing to take the fight, there’s hope 🔥 No opt-in, no opt-out, no nonsense. NO AI.

Complaining works, sometimes! Kickstarter is reverting its changes to definitions surrounding adult content. Here's their full update: updates.kickstarter.com/an-apology-r...

I’m literally so stunned by this. Why would you do this to yourself? This is like if an author just lost the ability to write. Or an artist couldn’t draw or paint anymore. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF??? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??

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