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Brandon Sheffield
@brandon.insertcredit.com

I got asked about AI in games again! I think we underestimate how, while AI use is more rampant in the East than the West, our protections against it here are dramatically worse.

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

gamesradar.com"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

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Geoffrey Bunting
@geoffreybunting.bsky.social

I think the obstacles AI erects are different too. In the west, current jobs are being lost, but speaking to people in the South Korean entertainment industry their concern is prospective jobs going — that smaller teams using AI removes the more basic pipelines in which juniors can cut their teeth.

PolarBair, Ehrgeiz Understander
@polarbair.neocities.org

This is good insight. I've always felt weird about how the general attitudes towards AI outside of North America have been "it's something for fun", neither the future of everything or an affront to any medium. But I didn't know about the labor laws at all.

Samoht
@sam0ht.bsky.social

I'm fairly sure it's causative - people in Japan are more open to AI because they're confident it won't be used as a reason/excuse to fire people.

Tyler Tinsley
@tylertinsley.bsky.social

Ai is an excuse for the layoffs. They can sustain a momentary shortfall in productivity as they have well established monopolies and a captive government. They want to destroy all bargaining power of the middle class. This moment has a lot of power politics in play.

🕹️ algi 🇭🇺 🇪🇺
@algi.bsky.social

I find it so ironic that there's this image of the cynical business people who con the public with clever marketing, but in reality they are so naive, they put their business on the line for a panacea without questioning if it works at all.

Thomas Feichtmeir
@cyangmou.bsky.social

The Western/Eastern divide foots on 2 major factors: -The idea of the "artist" differs culturally a lot -US weaponized copyright influenced all output in the West for generations China has a different copying culture and artists are seen less as creatives and more as craftsman/workers.

Thomas Feichtmeir
@cyangmou.bsky.social

Now as it seems more advantageous for corpos to throw copyright over board to have a similar situation as in the East... But with the way how western people view arts on a cultural level this is not working and won't change by persuasion. We also expect very different things from art than the East.

Savaged Regime
@lazygecko.bsky.social

The "shareholder value is literally all that matters" mantra and company leadership being co-opted by MBAs with no working background never really took hold to such a ubiquitous extent in Japanese corporate culture over the past 40-50 years. They still have some semblance of a social contract.