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Let's talk about AI in VRChat. Be sure to fill out the Google form at the bottom of the article. ask.vrchat.com/t/regarding-...

Would you be willing to apply the same standard you pick for users to yourselves? I don’t condone your use of AI art, even internally. You host a community of artists. I don’t mind LLM coding, that’s distinct from genAI art, but apply it fairly. Allow categories 1-5 for creators and VRChat equally.

Curious why coding gets a pass? I see this all the time - people want to protect artists, but developers are thrown under the bus. LLMs can code for the same reason that they can create pictures - they've stolen billions of lines of code to learn, with no attribution or compensation.

AI art fully replaces the artist. If you generate a fursona instead of a commission, that’s direct job displacement. Code is not like that. Software is never finished, tools that accelerate development don’t replace programmers, instead they improve their speed and capabilities.

I'm my experience LLMs are absolutely replacing the developers, at least in enterprises. So it's weird to me that people are cool with vibe-coding. Oh, it's just a tool to speed things up? No, CEOs see bogus stats like "43% efficiency" and they will absolutely fire 43% of the workforce.

Yes, entry level jobs are kinda broken, and people are being laid off for BS AI excuses. Some of it is a correction to pandemic-era over hiring. But the data does not support the idea that AI is taking programming jobs as a category, software employment is up for the third year in a row.

That's not going to be any kind of comfort to the tens of developers I know who lost their jobs as result of this unethical tech. Again, it's so strange to me that people can be opposed to artists having to change how genAI affects their output, but comfortable with devs going through the same.