Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 14 hours agoThe developer gives a pretty decent reason for the deletion, imo:
"I have realized the AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment," Rakuel wrote. "Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit[s] no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people," he continued.
There's nothing he can do about Arc Raider's success, but taking ownership of what he did, I gotta say, respect.
LwL@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I would never judge anyone for using AI to fill in the parts they need to realize their project vision that they otherwise simpy couldn’t (without putting in a lot more effort into a thing they probably don’t really enjoy), but doing this is still a statement and pretty cool to do.
Not that I’ll ever be motivated enough to actually finish a project, but I’ve thought about the art aspect of making a game, and eventually figured if I’d need to commission more than I can afford, I’d be morally fine with genAI if the game is either free or I use a large portion of profits (if there are any lol) to hire artists to gradually replace the art.
Though I also refuse to give a single cent to all the companies profiting off this so any image gen I’ll ever do will be local on my pc (or for free on some service, I guess).
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 1 hour ago
I don't think you deserve this many down votes for this take, but I'll provide a counterpoint. Not being able to afford a real artist is not as large a barrier as you think.
https://balatrowiki.org/w/Music
And here it is being played at the Game Awards.