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Nearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck
3 Jul 2023 at 6:06 pm UTC Likes: 10

I don't stop being surprised how low the percentage of the 1 - 2 million Deck users is compared to all Linux users. :)

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3 Jul 2023 at 6:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Linux_RocksHowever plebian on-board sound is a disgrace. I'm glad that my Sound Blaster AE-7 works *better* in Linux than Windows.
I once had my Windows installation (long time ago) give up on my SoundBlaster due to an update (I think it was Vista). Linux continued to support it. It's not always Linux that's failing on hardware support...

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
3 Jul 2023 at 5:59 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestHow is an AI supposed to "create" or "innovate" when it just vomits associations of other work it has been trained upon?
AI is more "creative" than most humans.

These comparisons are getting ridiculous. Yes, computers are less creative than Pablo Picasso, less intelligent than Albert Einstein and every some million miles of driving, they are killing a person. But they can compete with an average human in all of these fields easily. Mots of us don't write poems or paint pictures at all.

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
1 Jul 2023 at 11:36 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: fabertaweThis is not generally a good thing, in my view. Jobs will be lost and the quality of human creativity will be diluted and swamped by a tsunami of this stuff.
The strange thing is that now AI is painting and writing poems, while humans are doing hard work for minimal wages.

Wasn't this once supposed to be the other way around...?

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
1 Jul 2023 at 9:49 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: hardpenguinYes, this is good. Gotta get rid of the AI generated images (it is difficult to call it art).
It's obvious that this will not happen, right?

I do understand - and share - such feelings, but in the end, it's like trying to get rid of photos in the early stages of photography because they're "not art".
People said similar things about music sharing--where did it go?
Erm, I got no idea which similarity you're pointing at here. (Music sharing, like with Napster?)

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
1 Jul 2023 at 9:38 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: hardpenguinYes, this is good. Gotta get rid of the AI generated images (it is difficult to call it art).
It's obvious that this will not happen, right?

I do understand - and share - such feelings, but in the end, it's like trying to get rid of photos in the early stages of photography because they're "not art".
People said similar things about music sharing--where did it go?
Erm, I got no idea which similarity you're pointing at here. (Music sharing, like with Napster?)

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
1 Jul 2023 at 9:36 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: FSE
Quoting: EikeThey could Paint Yoda and Harry already.
Painting Yoda or Harry is IP infringement unless one can prove fair use.
You missunderstood what I tried to say: They can paint Yoda and Harry already, and thus infringe copyright, just like they can with AI. So I see nothing new with regards to Yoda and Harry.
Yeah, but the point is everything an AI produces is somebody's Yoda or Harry--maybe two or three somebodies mixed together if you're lucky.
Ok, I do get the point, but I don't believe the premise is true. AI can come up with stuff at the back that doesn't look like anything put in at the front. (When I think of it, my body ca... well, let's skip that. :D )

Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam
30 Jun 2023 at 3:03 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: blindcoderI _want_ to pick one up, but it's _still_ a lot of money for a device I don't really _need_.
Yep, can relate. It isn't like I ever go outside, but it'd be fun to tinker with and waste time for that one occasion when going outside is mandatory. Wouldn't regret a free one :tongue:
It's also nice in bed!
You do go to bed, don't you? ;)

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
30 Jun 2023 at 3:00 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: FSE
Quoting: EikeThey could Paint Yoda and Harry already.
Painting Yoda or Harry is IP infringement unless one can prove fair use.
You missunderstood what I tried to say: They can paint Yoda and Harry already, and thus infringe copyright, just like they can with AI. So I see nothing new with regards to Yoda and Harry.

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
30 Jun 2023 at 1:28 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: FSE
Quoting: Eikeit's like trying to get rid of photos in the early stages of photography because they're "not art".
Art or not, if you published a photo consisting of a still from Star Wars or a page of a Harry Potter book, then you would likely be infringing IP.
Yes, but I find this unlikely what devs would do. They could Paint Yoda and Harry already.

What devs likely would - and will - do is e.g. generating backgrounds instead of painting them. I've already seen this in point and click announcements. Looks very nice on first sight, on second you see some stuff is wrong. If When AI learns, and doesn't paint some nonsense, well, that's easily done and looks nice. And shouldn't infringe anything.

And no, it's not what I want, I want to feel human's sweat on my monitor.

There will be games labeled "made without AI", and, as always, there will be miss-labeling.