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oes it really matter if they slipped some AI stuff in there if I didn’t notice it? Especially when, as developers 11 Bit say, it only constitutes “0.3%” of the overall text in the game?
Yes, it fucking does. I am not just against the employment of this tech for obvious, superficial reasons. All generative AI content is built on theft; surely writing some gibberish, or pasting some lorem ipsum, would have been preferable here? And saying there were “time constraints” involved in rushing AI-generated translations into the game is no excuse, either. Translators are highly skilled workers; using reputable ones costs a studio money, and takes time, but it avoids situations like all this, not to mention it’s just the right and professional thing to do.
✏️ An argument for having zero tolerance about AI in video games. Even if, yes, you do it for the least bad of intentions.. you’re still choosing to use a tool that inherently is bad, when you always have other options.
It’s not like this is the only option and it’s a life-saving reason and the ethics weigh in your favor.. you could choose to put lorem ipsum.. you could choose to put a sketch or a placeholder doodle.
You chose to use a tool that stole from artists and writers and humans and that only feeds big corp and big money, and smooths out our collective experience to the lowest common denominator, giving us slop.
You could’ve done anything else.. this wasn’t necessary.
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id1026121144
Any studio making use of generative AI is sending a very clear message: they don’t care about the cataclysmic effects AI is having on their own industry, they don’t care that so much of AI content is slop, they don’t care that millions of people out there who are their prospective fans and customers are wholly opposed to its use. I don’t want to write about a game with AI in it, I don’t want to support studios that use it and I don’t want to spend a second of my time on it.
id1026121170
feels like the hope with generative AI is that no matter how much you may hate it, the goal is to bombard you with its horrors and its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it. The more you see of it, the more you’ll accept it as normal and the more you’ll grow to if not enjoy then at least tolerate it, no matter how reluctantly.
✏️ #xref with the 404 rant about being exhausted playing detective all the time online.
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id1026121285
This isn’t wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games. It is deeply unhealthy to bring so much scepticism into every new game I play,