I love that idea!

just set it to the January 1st of whichever year would make you 13 when you registered your account 😏 (I remember a platform deleting the account of someone when they, years later, revealed that they were under 13 when they registered)

good!

Indeed! A few years ago I saw a video about how grading companies and auction houses collude to push up the price of old videogames, because they both earn a % of the auction price.

Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market

To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.

Absolutely. It seems like 90% of the issues we have in society is because of this fucked-up economic system :/

That was the point I was trying to make too. The question of “is it theft” is moot, it still causes harm.

For me it boils down to: were the artists, whose work was used to build the large commercial models, asked about this and agreed to it? No.

Piracy only affects existing work, genAI affects all the future artwork they would try to make a living from. See AI hitting cultural sector hard: Fifth of freelance artists have lost income, work | NL Times

Reality is that people on platforms like Reddit or Lemmy (or the tech side of the Fediverse in general) can be incredibly fervent about their AI hate, but they don’t represent the average people, whose work has become ever so slightly more convenient thanks to AI

According to research, the overwhelming majority of gamers across all ages and genders do hate genAI though:

Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. - Quantic Foundry

In a recent survey, we explored gamers’ attitudes towards the use of Gen AI in video games and whether those attitudes varied by demographics and gaming motivations. The overwhelmingly negative attitude stood out compared to other surveys we’ve run over the past decade.
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Overall, the attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games is very negative. 85% of respondents have a below-neutral attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games, with a highly-skewed 63% who selected the most negative response option.

I still don’t like it. The models being built on non-consensually scraped artwork has been known from the very start. If they still thought these were ok to use, I don’t really want to get involved with their output…

It’s the same as when any other company quickly replaces the genAI art when busted, “oops we didn’t mean to include it” - then maybe don’t use it in the first place?

wait it used genAI? It’s coming off my wishlist… :/

Yeah, they could have phrased it better, but there is significant variation based on e.g. age groups, with older people being 7 times as likely to feel positive about GenAI in games, than younger ones. (With the caveat that the “7 times” is still only 22%.)

Yeah, I love these little ambient texts in games. I don’t think they would be too time-consuming to come up with for a game that already has written story content. Use them to contribute to the worldbuilding!

Eh, afaik he only added the letter to differentiate his scifi books from his non-scifi books :P

yes, I’ll call them AI when they are sentient D:

I was spoiled by Iain Banks’s Culture <3

This is more capitalism being dumb with all that speculation :P (But then again, most of issues around LLMs come from that they are being developed and used in a capitalist system.)

Depends a lot on the climate. I hated summer in Hungary with 3 months of 30-39°C days, now in Scotland, where it barely goes over 20°C for a couple weeks / year, I cherish every sunny day.

loads for me, in the UK

wow I legit thought this was AI-generated, but apparently they are real :o

I always hibernate to avoid waiting an hour for startup.

I’m sorry but wtf, I’ve been a Windows user all my life, often on old, shitty PCs, but startup never took more than a couple minutes at worst. Sounds like something is really wrong with your PC O.o

and then you start getting gifted people 😨