Yeah, so sad. You hate games that are “designed by committee”, just wait for “designed by a machine regurgitating the most common designs by committee”.

I saw a thread about a guy trying to buy a second hand item from someone on a website and suspecting the seller might be AI from someone running a scam. It’s a long string of messages, and all kind of funny, but it’s in French.

The most absurd part of it was that the bot actually agreed to in-person delivery, with a real address (it probably went off-script). So the guy is like, why the hell not, let’s try it and goes there. Of course nobody’s there so he messages back the “seller”.

The conversation goes like :

"Okay, I’m here.

_ Yes, i’m here at address too, I am waiting for you with the item.

_ Uhh. Where?

_ I am just in front of you.

_ Well no you’re not.

_ I get why you might be confused, but from my perspective, I can confirm that I can see you in front of me right now.

_ What are you wearing ?

_ I am wearing appropriate attire for in-person delivery. It’s comfortable and adapted to the current meteorological conditions."

Even when the goal isn’t misinformation…

Removing filler words, personal and colloquial terms, replacing words for more appropriate ones according to an “internet search”.

Who would be subjected to that willingly? Why even use a real human in the process at this point?

We used to give our cycles for free to help probing the universe and understanding the building blocks of life

Nowadays it’s about selling them to assholes ruining the world.

Well, kinda glad it ends up not profitable enough for them.

The interviewer in the article had the same reaction I had to this sentence : today, gen AI is very close to be the “cool thing five years ago”. Rejecting it is not rejecting the new thing anymore.

We’ve already seen how it does, we’ve been suffering its consequences, and we hate it.

I’m way before gen Z by the way. If you can’t get young people on your side, maybe you’re not the visionary you want to be, Sam.

Please do. It sounds like the perfect plan for reddit to finally sink to complete irrelevance.

The problem is that you start thinking the robot tentacles are a neat tool and that you’re a centaur.

But before long the tentacles take over and you haven’t even realized you’ve become a reverse centaur.

Source : the ancient wisdom of Spider-Man 2 (2004).

I don’t know, Jewish tradition has golems. They’re basically human-shaped machines that are powered by the words written by their creators.

Though golems are supposed to be mute, and LLM are anything but. Maybe that’s why AI is bad.

I’m sure we can find something written millennia ago that describes precisely why we shouldn’t use gen AI now, we just have to look for it.

So you can’t oppose outsourcing your brain power to a megacorp that will take zero responsibility for any consequence of its spicy autocorrect…

but you can oppose outsourcing your brain power to “the machine” because it’s against your beliefs.

I mean, if it works, yeah sure, call it a religion.

A way less extreme fee was once proposed for steam greenlight, the process that was once supposed to filter new games released on Steam.

Principle was the game studio would present their game (in various states of completion) with a video, a couple screenshots and a blurb, maybe a demo (rare) and Steam users would check their page and vote on them if they wanted it on Steam.

For lots of reasons, it didn’t work. Like now, one problem was that no barrier to entry meant anyone could half-ass a page for their asset-flip or even other people’s work, eclipsing real games that had a hard time being approved (even a few that had a reasonable following outside Steam already).

At some point Steam tried going the fee-to-entry route, even making it a payment to charity so they were not accused of making money from the situation. It was way less than 150k, and it was already seen as rather unfair. Especially for people living in countries where the average wage was lower than in the US.

Greenlight finally imploded because it made nobody happy, and we ended up with the current situation of “anything goes, and the algorithm will recognize real games over the crap”. It’s always been a shit show, and it only became worse with genAI slop.

Regarding the fee you proposed, something that high would make it basically impossible for an indie to get in there without a publisher deal, and even then would make their relationship to said publishers even more one-way, if by chance they get one to absorb the risk. Have you read about small studios being conned out of their work by their publishers? Prepare for more.

They’ve “cracked the code” and need other cynical assholes like them to praise their genius. And possibly buy their training course.

Seriously. The guy’s not even trying to make slop entertainment, he’s gloating because he made an empty slop teaser. Just a shitty mascot that fakes a story beginning and never delivers. Because it’s enough to reap some monetisation.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he was partly faking how well it works too. That’s like 99% of that slop content entrepreneurship.

In the end LLM are just predicting what is statistically the most likely follow-up for a sentence, according to what they’ve been trained on. That’s how they work.

For this they cut sentences into bits called tokens. The text they are working on is a sequence of tokens, and they predict the next one.

A token could be a whole word (generally if it’s short and usual), often it’s a syllable, and if you’re trying to use uncommon words/names they might even cut them down letter-by-letter in part to try and fit them into something they can swallow.

Of course tokens would be very language dependent, and some languages just use more characters/longer words and sentences than others on average.

Yeah, that was my first reaction to this too. Look at me, I found a way to monetize acting like a little shit to random people who just assume you’re a normal human being.

You know the type. They’re the asses who believe any basic interaction is a game they have to exploit for their own gratification. The ones that once heard the term “social contract”, and their reaction to this is finding all the loopholes in the agreement.

I believe Meta’s founder and CEO himself uses the technical term “dumb fuck” to qualify these people.

How about I never “”“buy”“” a game again from you Microsoft?

If you’re using all the tricks in the trade to substitute your AI answer over actual results, in an obvious attempt at making people stop there and use that as their main source of information…

Yeah. You are 100% responsible for anything your glorified autocorrect spits out.

Go Germany, hoping every country in EU follows that example.

Good, I’ll call them next time I need an environmental disaster to play a game for me.

The $29 cap signals that per-seat AI budgets cannot yet cover agentic coding tools, which cost heavy users anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a month.

It may be so, but that tells me even if they wanted to use it for productive work, it’d still cost them about that much.

I am very much on the anti-genAI side, but this is stupid.

First there are other reasons to be against it.

Second that way to consume art directly from the artist is an exception since way longer than gen AI existed. No, most people never commissioned a freaking poet or oil-painting portraitist. Who are you, a Florentine patrician from the 17th century?

People do consume art though. They can be selective in what they get and hopefully support stuff actually made by people.

Oh right, I thought it was actually part of the guidelines it was spewing.

At least it’s something it generated and not how the prompt geniuses tried to make that thing comply, I guess.

Still, yeah, awkward how stupid the “internal monologue” sounds and how it ends up getting ignored anyway.