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Feel like not enough people called out Expedition 33 for this and then it won a ton of awards. And now its an uphill struggle because game companies know if its good enough they still win.

I'm always confused about posts like these. What's the connection? The game had one ai texture made or bought from God knows where when many didn't know about how harmful it is. It won awards because it's a good game and other devs do that not because of e33 but because they don't want to pay others

The only reason I even gave them a cautious squint instead of a complete write-off is because the timeline for "we were fucking with it early and missed something" lined up with how everyone ever was doing that with early genAI...and then every other company started using the excuse.

The further away from 2019-2020 it gets, the less that excuse works, but they still think they can use it. My situation is "I'm watching you" regarding Sandfall, and "you fucking donkey" for everything that uses said excuse now.

I'm not sure I like the "merely having looked at AI poisons your work for all time" take when it's really obvious they're just going to forget (or """forget""") to remove the AI placeholders, outsourcing that job to their customers because games have piss-poor asset management

I’m just never going to buy any game made with ai. Not the Amsterdam game. Not the Expanse game. Not the Warhammer Dark Heresy game.

What additionally sucks about commercial LLMs, which literally no one needs & are vastly indefensible, is that it poisons the well for discourse in STEAM-contexts where it's use & applications used to be celebrated (protein-folding sims, enemy NPCs, photoshop magic-lasso tool shit, etc).

but those aren't LLM applications. bsky.app/profile/symb...

It's a huge bummer for me that the Amsterdam game is contaminated with genAI. I was really looking forward to it. At least ill have more time for other games

AAA games are incredibly expensive to make, and developers are going to use every tool they have to try and bring development costs down. Getting mad about developers using AI in any capacity makes about as much sense as getting mad about them using procedural generation. It depends on how it's used

why ever care about any shady practice? people are gonna cut costs, just accept whatever pile of shit you're thrown

If it affects the final quality of a game or movie in a meaningful way, that's one thing. But people were also mad because Supergirl used image generators to quickly test out alternate versions of a character's hair in concept art, something that shouldn't affect the final product at all

if one of those tools is a machine fueled by theft, avoiding the game altogether makes plenty of sense even if it weren't theft, even if it weren't environmentally destructive, why would I play a game that wasn't made by people?

I don't care if it's fueled by hypothetical copyright infringement as long as they're not actually committing copyright infringement. If you're worried about the environmental impact, it probably matters more whether the company has an extensive work from home policy, and how well the game runs.