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PayPalGenerative 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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Quoting: minidou1) It's not blind.Quoting: EikeWhat is ridiculous is be blindly refuse to use tools, moreover to actively campaign against tools or anyone that use themQuoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprisingWhat is ridiculous about humans writing texts?
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems
It worked quite well the last millennia, and it still works.
2) These "tools" are different from other tools. Very different.
I want a human to talk to me, not a machine.
just kidding ofc. Great to hear!
Been here since the beginning of the site!
the site is almost Adult age!
Even so, I have yet to find ai-generated textual content which I can stomach for more than 15 seconds. All these websites feel like a jumbled mess of words trying to drown their own egregious lack of precision in a verbal diarrhoea.
Here is to GoL on point and enjoyable content. ❤️
Quoting: minidougenai was built on stealing the works of millions of actual humans and then not ever compensating any of them and then regurgitating said works in a worse way. What is ridiculous is that you advocate for the use of such a thing.Quoting: EikeWhat is ridiculous is be blindly refuse to use tools, moreover to actively campaign against tools or anyone that use themQuoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprisingWhat is ridiculous about humans writing texts?
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems
It worked quite well the last millennia, and it still works.
Also ... are you actively saying you WANT to read websites that are just written by idiotic genai's ...? That's what you WANT to read?
I read the article about the dev of lutris using it, and the comments under it, and realized again that I am in a minority in the groups I normally align with. In that everyone but me seems to hate AI and think it should burn in a fire.
With that said, I really don't like that AI is basically taking over the internet. Dead internet theory is no longer a theory, 90% of the content we read, and the comments that are posted at this point are either fully written by genAI, or "corrected" by it, and that I think is a bit of an issue. I don't care if you write a bit of code with it to cut out some thing you don't want to deal with. Heck, I don't care if you write entire software stacks in it, so long as you let people know you did so they can choose to trust it or not. I do care if everything on the internet suddenly becomes homogenized slop.
Humans need to continue writing, and creating. Art should be made by humans whether that be writing, drawing, painting, music. Any of it. Some places need to remain human, and free of the slop regardless of my, or anyone elses opinion of the slops value.
So you know, TL;DR Good. I really appreciate the human touch, and I hope to hell other people take up the same viewpoint and continue to create in the face of this onslaught.
(This comment hand written by me. I think I am human.)
Thanks for GoL!
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