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"Bitter, losing rivals of Steam have suggestions on how Steam should be run"

Can you say “I am well aware that disclosing the use of AI in games will negatively affect sales numbers” without saying it?

Tim, this is like food companies being required by law to show their ingredients so people know they aren’t eating rat meat.

... Tim's shampoo is 79% toxic plastic microbeads made by pyrolizing baby seal fat on a factory built atop an indigenous sacred place, isn't it?

Epic can absolutely use AI to help development—replacing Tim Sweeney with an LLM, for example, would be a defensible use case.

Good idea Tim

Because a dev's shampoo brand has no direct bearing on the product your shit company puts out. Hope this helps, mr. CEO.

Tim Sweeney is an asshole. Generative AI is for assholes. It makes sense why he's getting so defensive. Fuck both of them.

Tim Sweeney being an enormous dingus, and being so very deeply weird?

Expedition 33 is the main one. Apparently "they covered it up after release" is enough for an excuse for using GenAI to assist with the development of the game. Still doesn't have a tag on Steam, either.

lol they start to be a bit touchy, looks like the bubble is starting to go poof

Dude that couldn't fathom why people despised cryptos cannot fathom why people despise AI art. Picture me surprised haha.

They look scare as fuck :D

Honestly I WOULD like to know what Shampoo he used so I can avoid it, its clearly corrosive to the point that it’s melted through his skull and dissolved the part of his brain that governs logic and sense. Morals too.

tim, you are dumber than dookie shit

Why stop at razor wire infant garrotes? We could have mandatory disclosures of how many kittens you've nuzzled. When everything is the same as everything else, I can always make a very good point!

Which is strange, as Valve are just as bad as the others.

Gabe Newigi

Yeah, not only has he managed to ensure I won't ever even install their launcher, I've taken the additional step of deciding to not buy another game using the Unreal Engine. Which is okay, because I currently have a backlog that will last me the rest of my life.

Need to switch it up. Add a no AI-generated content Promise.

Jesus he's so insufferable.

sweaty

Look, just because Sweeney keeps spewing out a constant stream of bullshit doesn't mean you need to act like he's presenting it as a logical argument.

No big deal, just the guy in charge of Unreal Engine declaring he wants to secretly use GenAI slop forever, cool cool. Any chance we can get game companies to boycott Unreal?

Well if your shampoo has known ethical concerns for a major section of the population, maybe? Like if you got your sound library by actually harming animals and recording it, you should probably also be forced to disclose that.

Tim sweeny always does be like "If valves doing it on steam its wrong and bad" Which is why the epic game store is a fucking joke.

He's so fucking mad. Good

I like these CEOs in creative industries who evidently must regard their own moments of creativity as a fleeting illness from which they recovered with no visible traces left.

I bet this kind of logic is really compelling to a ten-year-old.

I mean if you're using ur hair to sell your game, sure

This is such a beautiful crashout, its so obvious he knows the bubble is bursting and there is NOTHING he can do about it.

If for some strange reason the shampoo was involved in the development process, then yeah we would want you to disclose it. Its the process you have to disclose... What the hell is your point Tim

Just one more reason to never fucking patronize Epic

And they are trying to sell to you the beautiful shampoo they use no less

Is Sweeney quietly admitting that he uses only shampoo made exclusively by child slaves or something? Wouldn't put it past him...

He understands the situation well enough to know the public hates AI slop.

Tim Sweety is an AI-addicted prick

“Shut up Tim”

I think I would actually like to know what shampoo they use. 2 in 1 garbage? Maybe I’ll skip the release

Except the developer probably didn't steal the shampoo from the store that sold it.

"Wanting to know if I'm making AI slop games is the same as knowing what kind of shampoo I use"

Genuinely the stupidest comparison of anything to anything I've ever heard in my life.

Food packaging discloses nuts, vegan, halal, etc, so people can avoid the ingredients they don't want.

Almost like the company has some kind of financial ties to AI. I'm sure it's just coincidence.

on top of everything else, tim sweeney really cannot help but sound like a whiny little asshole no matter what

Tim Sweeney can eat a fuckin dick.

Who lets rich white men speak... its wild

If a regulation designed to benefit the consumer is being opposed by large corporations, then that regulation is probably important

That's the kind of "joke" that a 13 year old kid uses when they know they're doing something bad but they're afraid to admit it, so they just deflect to something else. This is CEOs telling on themselves that they're a) aware that what they're doing is bad, and b) intellectually stunted teenagers.

I do not support Head & Shoulders, and they know exactly why.

I dont condone violence, but this is a pretty slappable face

Unfortunately, we're already screwed because a game that used GenAI to make it is likely going to win multiple GotY awards. The new tactic will just be not declaring it on Steam and not mentioning it at all.

Until there is an AI model that isn't built off of the exploitation of real artists, I will always demand a AI tag.

“Hey we just want to know if this was AI generated” “Oh what you want my IP address too?? How about my credit card number??? Guess I’ll just die huh???”

Sim Tweeney

I really wished that whoever overviewed that clown.. would have thrown the claims if mayor studios that AI creates better gameplay and opportunities to gamers in his face. Because his complain to get AI tags removed, shows the opposite.

The guy was so angry that the old Unreal games kept selling year after year at GOG and Steam that he pulled them from sale everywhere. They say it's because they had to turn off their gameplay services... but that's BS, they all could be played with user-hosted servers!

hes completely crashing out lmao

did he use an LLM to generate that response? cos it makes no fucking sense

Anti-art nerd who endangered Bandcamp, who owns platform that only sees use by offering free games, runs his mouth again. Lonely!

Tim Sweeney with a shit take? Oh I didn't realize today was a day ending in -y.

I'd rather have a game about the devs washing their hair than generative A. I. honestly.

Says the guy who openly hates linux for no good reason

sim tweeney

If they're going to squirt the fucking shampoo into our eyes, then, yeah, we should

guy in second place says guy in first place should stop running so fast

He's just upset that he's balding. He did use to have a nice head of hair.

Oh he’s seething

"Why should we have to disclose how much sawdust we bake into our bread?"

Steam is no different, their meaningless GenAI warning can just be ignored by developers. They're happy to protect games that used GenAI.

Sounds like AI is rotting this guy's brain

Oh? I thought he was saying AI was the future. Why wouldn't they want to proudly tell us that they are using it? Any reason why they don't want us to know? 😒

Tim Sweeney proving once again that you don't need to be smart or talented to be rich. This dude would be hopeless on his own.

False equivalence - the desperate take of someone who thinks that defending a six-fingered zombie Santa is the best way to appease the shareholders (at least until the next quarter)

Having seen the latest hideous slop in Fortnite, of course he thinks his opponents should stop doing something he's terrified of doing.

Guy, whose empire is based on creating the minimal amount of mediocre content, doesn't want to have to do any amount of work ... yeah, that tracks.

what a grossly disingenuous and juvenile knee-jerk argument by whoever tim sweeney is.

epic boss baby fucking rat bitch tim sweeney should ditch the breath from his lungs

"We want to use stolen work and don't want customers to get mad at us!" Oh, so you're a shitty person, Tim.

Is the shampoo being used in the game?

This guy DEFINITELY has something to hide about his shampoo right?

The terrifying thing is that *he probably thought that was a smart thing to say*. He probably *still* thinks so.

And it's shit ass opinions like this that will keep valve/steam as the #1 platform for a long time. Keep it up, Mr Epic!

the amount of people who fight tooth and nail against the very expectation of regulation and identification of such controversial technologies by making disingenuous comparisons to mundane things, head completely stuck in their arses... not just tim sweeney, we need to call out other techbros too

A few years back Sweeney responded to Steam's NFT ban by opening the doors to NFT/web3/play to earn slop on Epic Game Store. I don't think it helped EGS's fortunes.

Tim Sweeny ensuring I will speak out against him at every chance for the rest of my life. Thanks Tim.

Why would steam give a shit what he thinks?

Tim Sweeney seems like a real piece of shit.

I think his shampoo has started leaking into his brain.

Legit an argument a snarky gradeschooler would make and feel smug about it.

Yeah, fuck epic games!

Is he some kind of idiot or?

Beat for beat strawman argument...

bsky.app/profile/rapt...

Epic boss Tim Sweeney sounds like a cunt

Well known piece of shit says what, now?

Tim Sweeney is a cretin.

Tim Sweeney is a hack and he shut the fuck up and go the fuck away he is literally a net negative videogames as a whole

What if different things were, in fact, different?

This is the kind of hypothetical that makes me think Tim Sweeney doesn't wash himself at all, much less use shampoo.

Every second I have to read the spoken thoughts of some CEO is seconds stolen from my life.

People. They have rotten brain for voluntary doom scrolling 100% human slop for years. But they feint offense because of AI slop. Where were they the last 15 years???? It's like all the stupid wannabe influencers slop flooding youtube to complain about AI slop.

This just guaranteed I'll never buy from Epic Games..

Remind me why a shopping cart is important.

Every time something criticizable happens with Steam, Tim shows up and goes "No, actually, I'M worse"

This coming from the guy who's game store is overrun with crypto NFT and AI slop games that have a maximum player peak of 6. Why is Tim such a sore loser? Is all his Fortnite money not enough for him?

What a total pissbaby. If AI was as much the future as he thought it was, he wouldn't give a shit about the disclosure. But, it's not, and so he does.

God, he's making it easy to want to drop his company like a bad habit.

My favorite part of this is that it's a real quote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP...

Real "men will marry their dog next" vibes.

Tim sweeny sucks

Well too bad he doesn't control Steam's store. He barely controls a much smaller store which can't gain marketshare even though it gives games away for free every week. Maybe I am crazy but could it be that people whom actually buy from game Stores like the idea of knowing what to expect.

What a ridiculously dumb statement.