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With all the well reported issues and concerns surrounding AI / Generative AI, you would think it would be an absolute given that announcing an AI contest would be a thoroughly idiotic idea - but apparently not. Someone genuinely thought this was a good enough idea to put online.
In a post on X/Twitter, the official Party Animals account invited people to win a share of $75,000 to "bring your ideas to life with AI".
How did it go? Well, it's now on Mostly Negative for recent user reviews on Steam with 828 negative reviews flowing in since the announcement:
As a result, the developer has somewhat attempted to backtrack on it. Sort of. Well, they're now asking for opinions on what they should do, which includes keeping the AI category:
If I could face-palm any harder I might hurt myself. How do you read the room that badly? And still don't firmly backtrack on it and cancel it. Sometimes the tech and gaming communities end up in a bubble, but you have to be living under the heaviest rock imaginable not to understand there's a lot of negativity flowing towards Generative AI.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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There's nothing creative about making some generative ai monstrosity vomit up hallucinated tosh they stole real artists work to train their torment nexus machines on. 🤬
I'm almost impressed.
While I don't think review bombs are an appropriate form of protest against non-game issues, I also realize people don't have anything more powerful available to them, so 🤷♂️
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Quoting: SirMCJeagerI wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.That's the thing, really. AI is being forced upon people throughout all aspects of life and that's not how you make something popular. Quite the contrary.
And review bombs work. It's one of the few ways in which consumers can fight back.
I wish all this AI bs would stop because it's the only tech that requires mandatory usage quotas to justify more investments.
Every other unpopular idea/tech that yeilded this level of backlash should have been abandoned by now but we keep pushing it while it's actively being a detriment to society from all the perspectives in which you can analize it (energy use, profits, job loses, copyright infringement, ...).
So, no. People will not let this go because people hate this shit.
To us, AI is Just another tool.So, you don't understand then. Not gonna regurgitate (again), the 20+ reasons why genAI is a curse. It should be obvious by now, but there are still execs out there who love the fact they don't have to pay humans anymore. Fuck 'em.
Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.What do you suggest people do with their anger and frustration at genAI when it's promoted as gleefully and as ignorantly as this?? This is the perfect answer to such total lack of awareness of the negative impacts of genAI. Execs want it, NO-ONE ELSE WANTS IT. But no matter how many capital letters we use, we'll still get dumb takes like an AI competition to promote yet more use of "just another tool".
Just another hammer - small catch, every time you use it, someone dies. But yeah, it's just another tool. Would you use that hammer?
*yes, that's an exaggeration, but it feels like absurd arguments like that are the only way to land the point in the face of tech-bro'ism these days.
Quoting: scainethe 20+ reasons why genAI is a curseI'm still convinced that the only real description for gen AI is that it is a weapon for the ultra wealthy to be used against the rest of the people.
Quoting: SirMCJeager... I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.It will when the "ai"-nonsense stops.
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