@davidbisset I found this very fun until I saw in the project readme file "This [code] was about ~80% AI generated"

I guess it's still an original idea but I'm just less impressed with the execution. Now instead of looking just standard, maybe slightly barebones, or just functionality-first... it feels like a botch job instead. Weird mix of feelings about this project!

@luc @davidbisset

That's a whole lotta judgement of somebody who just wanted to make a cute and fun fish page. 🙁

@atzanteol @luc @davidbisset yup, and it's a reasonable judgment too, sadly.

The people who made this are participating in a movement (the AI hype movement) that is stoking fossil fuel demand on a burning planet. That's... not actually worth it for a fun little fish game, especially since it could have been built (even with the neural network component) without being part of the AI hype movement.

To me the proud tenor to their use of the term "AI" to describe the fish classifier is what pushes this over that edge. From what I can tell, their "AI" (in the app, not used to build it) actually avoids almost *all* of the ethical issues with what is colloquially termed "AI" these days. Yet they still chose to use the term without distinction, presumably thinking it would get the average player more excited about their game. Effectively, they've (intentionally or more likely not) made their game into a kind of "funwashing" aspect of the AI hype train; "Look at this fun website powered by AI, that's so cool."

I too had fun drawing a little fish, but now I feel sad about the whole thing, *especially* because it was entirely unnecessary. This was *so close* to being a very rare example of "see this is how you can use neural nets ethically!"