Letter from the owner - our stance on generative AI

Generative AI seems like it's everywhere now right? So here's a letter from the owner (me, hi!) formally setting out the GamingOnLinux stance on it.

Let's make it completely clear - there is no generative AI used for GamingOnLinux news and guides. There never will be generative AI used for them. Our About Us page has a clear note too: "All content is human-created. We have a strict no AI generation policy here".

We've seen other websites get sold off, editors fired and even replaced with fake AI generated bots that post content. We will never be doing anything like that. I would rather throw the GamingOnLinux name and web server into the sun than ever let GamingOnLinux become something like that.

I'm certainly not perfect. I mess up from time to time but I use those times to learn and improve. I am human, totally fallible. As are the contributors that jump in with an article here and there and help out with moderation. And to the users logged in who send in correction reports to fix my incorrect wording, and sometimes rather funky grammar - you're awesome too. You know who you are. I appreciate you a lot.

I want to continue to see a world full of human creation, to have chatter between humans, and not fill the internet with soulless bot-created works made for faster and easier profit. The community we've built up together over the nearly 17 years of operation is important to me. So I hope my stance on generative AI is understandable.

It's a truly challenging time. Not just for a smaller site like this but for everyone. Search engine AI overviews have definitely affected us, as have all the AI tools that just repeat content scraped from GamingOnLinux without people ever visiting us. Many of the bigger players are now owned by the same companies, and have seen repeated layoffs due to how tough it is to keep going.

We may not have the most in-depth articles, as there's better places with funding enough for multiple amazing editors doing some deep stuff you can find. The point of GamingOnLinux has always remained the same. Not to spam you with 100 different pieces a day like some content farm but just to curate and highlight cool games, along with various bits of news I find interesting directly in the Linux sphere.

GamingOnLinux will stick around as long as humanly possible.

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Thanks for reading.