Seeing more and more games on Steam have their AI generation disclosures like ā€œdon’t worry it’s just backgrounds, voices…and so onā€.

If you can’t be bothered to make it, why should I be bothered to play it? Or write about it?

@gamingonlinux I feel somewhat conflicted about this. At what point is AI not just another tool a developer or creative person can add to their toolbox? Long, long ago I hand coded 8 bit sprite matrixes. Then came tools to draw your sprites which dumped the matrix for you. 3D is just a long road of ever more versatile tools that let you apply templates and logic to create and animate what you need.

@fschaap @gamingonlinux

Ai is not a tool it's an excuse to steal other people's work while wasting insane amounts of resources

@gloopsies @gamingonlinux Sure, the current implementation by robber barons is that too. And 'AI' is a terrible term. But where do you draw the line between a pathfinding algorithm, an asset generation algorithm and a generative conversation model and the other code and algorithms you use?

@fschaap @gamingonlinux

Does it take other people's work without their consent? That's an easy line to draw

@gloopsies @gamingonlinux Yep, I am all for drawing that line.