I knew I would end up lamenting joining, but unfortunately there are so many interesting communities you can reach only there 😡

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Most of the replies are quite OK, to bad they'll not retreat on the slop machine usage.

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Quoting: GuestWhat makes them so exited? We had procedurally generated worlds for years. Game engines to quickly import some character model to do basic stuff in them aren't new either. But now you call it AI and everybody acts like it's the second coming of christ.

The difference is you can do this with simple text prompts. It is an impressive tech, but as happens with most generative AI tools, real world use cases might be quite limited. Is it impressive you can get something looking like a Zelda BotW clone in minutes? Yes it is. But it is missing all that makes Zelda BotW a great game (on top of all the legal issues, economical and environmental disaster generative AI is, etc.). Yeah, using generative AI you can generate games in hours, maybe even minutes. But how much will it take generating a game **someone wants to actually play**?

It's like that experiment in which one Cursor guy built a browser in a week, that barely compiled and ran even worse. Is it an impressive feat the slop machine built a browser in a week? Yes, it is (even if it worked really bad when it managed to even start, and relied heavily on Servo code). But that's as far as the slop machine will take it. How much effort would take to patch those millions of lines of technical debt until you reach a production ready web browser? I suspect you'd be better throwing all of it to the trash and start from scratch, now with a real brain doing the work.

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This is very bad news, at least for the Steam Machine. It's a bit tight performance wise, so each day it is delayed, it becomes less and less attractive.

So yeah, we can thank Sam Altman for killing one of the best opportunities after de Deck, for Linux to gain market share. At least thanks to him, we can feed ourselves tons of slop on Youtube 🤮

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Now Nintendo needs an AI tool to automate Cease & Desists.

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Quoting: hardpenguinHow about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

What's dumb about translations and OCR?

Blind hatred for anything labeled with “AI” is as pointless as hatred for anything that uses linked lists.

Translations and OCR are not the things that have caused the hatred.

And you know. Stop playing dumb.

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Great but late (at least for me, I'm writing from LibreWolf).

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Quoting: tmtvlI'm still going to keep buying games on GOG because the anti-DRM stance is more important than 'oh, they used an AI-generated image' (we don't even know whether the model used is an ethically trained model or not) or 'oh, their launcher doesn't run on GNU/Linux' (you can just download the game from the website and there's Lutris and Heroic and Minigalaxy). I also buy games on Steam and Itch because I know any and all of those bastards will stab me in the back when the mood takes them (and seriously, fuck Valve, fuck GOG, and double fuck Itch for stiffing the fucking devs out of the money their fans pay).

Is AI bad? Well, Adobe Firefly is apparently trained on specifically licensed content where Adobe paid the creators for making the materials the model was trained on, there's also Vaisual and Tess and Mitsua and gods know what else. Maybe whoever provided the banner art for GOG used one of those? But no, AI = bad, so let's not use our brains and just condemn; that's always worked out best.

It's slop. If you like it, OK, but it's undeniable the image quality is abysmal. On top of that there are all the other problems (massive copyright violation, that I suspect is happening here also, environmental disaster, hoarding causing 5x RAM price increase...). But even setting these aside, if you don't care about the presentation of your store and put slop on it...

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Quoting: dubigrasuAI use: "Brainstorming = 81%"
That seems weird, basically asking AI what people would like? (if I understand that correctly)

Brainstorming without a brain.

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That melting SNES is truly a work of art 🤮

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