Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb

That wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

Dumb shits doing dumb shit things, and they will learn nothing from this because despite the tweet, they do NOT understand.

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 do not understand how anyone supposedly in the marketing realm can fail to read a room this badly.
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 curse

I'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.

Well the marketing team was split between doing either a youth chain smoking competition, public service worker harassment tiktok videos, or flash mob twerking at hospice care centers. But like any good head of marketing, they settled for something where participants could generate buzz while sitting from their couch at home that would maximize drain on society without requiring consumable commodities, going outside, or physical (or even mental) exertion. Real party animals if you ask me.

Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

Right?

It's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

The environmental impact of events which leading to a huge amount of people using LLM in an excessive way. Who is taking the responsibility of this? Are they even aware how much power it would require in additional, just to create the slop-content of this event? If they had to pay all of this, their 75k$ would not be enough to pay the bills.

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AI controversy aside, I hate the trend of using reviews for general protests instead of, you know, actually reviewing a product.

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

Right?

It's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

So they should just be silently against genAI? Perfectly fine to protest it in silence... we can't upset the people pushing the genAI agenda, right?

Seriously though - I have no idea what they expected here. The masses had one route to voice their displeasure at this shitty technology, and they took it.

The review bomb would probably go away if they had apologised and backed actual creatives. But it probably won't go away now, because they didn't.

Quoting: KimyrielleIt's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

And who or what is being lynched so viciously by this supposed mob? A corporation's bottom line? A CEO's quarterly bonus? They've made tens of millions with the game already, they'll be fine.

Try using less emotional language if you want to accuse others of abandoning logic and reason. Until then, I find it very difficult to respect your hot take.

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 a coincidence. I wish every single business out there would stop shoving things down my throat against my will, yet here we are.

Quoting: devlandEvery 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, ...).

Well, for the people backing it, the job losses are the point. They hate having to employ all these messy humans who want to be paid and have time off and stuff.