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- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Tell me you never used AI tools in your workflow without telling me.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Alright troll, off you fuck then.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Gamers also don't generally reflect the opinions of the entire population.
The way the question is asked is also important. Obviously a majority will hate genAI slop, but a good (indie) game where the developer had absolutely no chance of hiring actual people (therefore no artist, software engineer, etc. was hurt in the process), now that's a different story.
See this here for example. People are freaking out because AI was mentioned. Not because COE33 is a bad game (though I do think it's overhyped, personally), but because AI got mentioned - in a way that doesn't even affect them.
Thing is, there are some malicious actors in the AI sphere, both for AI and against - and the ones against are pushing absolute BS stories to ragebait people and build "consensus" on AI being bad.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Human workers did make those assets. Using AI. As placeholders.
Maybe stop the rate hating for a moment to understand the situation before you comment absolute shite?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Except in this case it wasn't used to replace talented artists.
AI is precisely for this kind of work, the uninspired, "someone's gotta do it" kind of boilerplate bullshit. No artist is enthusiastic about having to make brick pattern number 3591. But someone's gotta make it. At that point, it might be just one artist generating all required 8000 patterns via AI, knocking it out in one day, then getting back to working on things that do require their talent.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Why are YOU being obtuse here?
No company with an in-house design team will start trawling marketplaces to spend money on PLACEHOLDERS.
And it's not like the designers "didn't want" to make the textures, you donut - it's that resources need to be allocated, and making minor textures falls on very tail end of the priority list.
At which point they probably had one designer generate the needed placeholders using AI, to ensure they're good enough for placeholders, and called it a day.
I'll ask you one better - why are you trying to force companies to go out of their way to spend money? When digital design tools hit the market, would you have been standing in line telling companies to instead hire out actual manual art instead of working with digital tools, if they didn't have the required in-house resources?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Did you read MY comment at all?
When you have in-house designers you won't go shopping around for textures, especially not placeholder ones.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
No. Instead of making designers work on Brick Texture #7298, they allowed them to work on actually interesting design bits while the necessary textures were placeholdered by AI.
Also, stolen art... The same argument comes up here as with piracy. If I take something you created, BUT you're not deprived of said thing, then it's not theft. It is a breach of licence but not theft.
I do agree that some genAI models have very questionable copyrighting issues due to source dataset usage, but, just by creating a model you haven't deprived anyone of ownership of their property. You haven't actually done any financial damage to them.
So please stop overblowing the issue and instead begin by pushing for support of artists' rights to decide if their art can be used by third parties for the purpose of AI training, which is the core issue here. And even go and push for artists' rights to reserve their art's training data usage to themselves, thus allowing artists to create their own specialised models with their own style that they can use to offer cheaper art, or even license the use of the model out for money, thereby allowing artists to directly benefit from AI instead of being fervently against it.
You're also forgetting that most companies like Sandfall Interactive, that work on a budget, have their own designers so they don't just shop around for artists, even without AI. But without AI it would've meant that those hundreds of brick etc. textured would've gotten a placeholder that was unsightly. See e.g. Valve's Source Engine pink-black checkerboard placeholder. Would you have preferred that?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
I fully agree with the ethical parts, but not with the bit of people hating it.
Reality is that people on platforms like Reddit or Lemmy (or the tech side of the Fediverse in general) can be incredibly fervent about their AI hate, but they don't represent the average people, whose work has become ever so slightly more convenient thanks to AI - let that be due to meeting summarisation, or writing tools making complex emails easier, or maybe they're software engineers whose workload has been reduced by AI too... I am a software engineer and I use our own Claude instance extensively because it's really good at writing tests, KDoc, it's super helpful at code discovery (our codebase is huge, and I mostly work on a very small subsegment on it, going outside of my domain I can either spend an hour doing manual discovery, or tell Claude to collate all the info I need and go for a coffee while it does so), or to write work item summaries, commit messages, and so on. It doesn't even have to generate (production) code for it to be incredibly useful. And general sentiment within my co-workers is that it's a great tool that means we can achieve targets quicker, and luckily our management realises that we do need the manpower to do things manually still, so it's not like they're reducing teams by expanding on AI. They'd rather take the improved performance, thus the improved revenue, than keep revenue stagnant-ish and reduce expenses.
So yeah the sentiment isn't all negative.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
For reference, see the latest McDonalds Christmas advert scandal. Or was it Coca Cola?
Like with any new tech, companies will try to exploit it to reduce expenses on people, then quickly realise that just because you replaced a hammer with a hydraulic smithing press, you haven't suddenly become a blacksmith yourself and still need the blacksmith to make shit happen - but now one blacksmith can do ten times more.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 days ago:
Oh fuck off with that sentiment. You're very well aware that that's not what happened here, nor is it what's happening in a majority of genAI usage cases. In fact in most cases it IS artists using genAI to speed up the design process.
What AI does here is allowing small teams to get art done what otherwise would eat up their budget, aka they literally couldn't afford. No artists were harmed in these cases because if AI didn't exist they simply wouldn't have been hired.
Yes, there IS a currently ongoing shift. Just like there was e.g. with the mechanic loom. Did that kill off handmade clothing? No - even today we still have artists making handmade clothing and in fact making tons more off of it, while the masses got access to cheap clothing. The initial sudden rush to the new tech is annoying and yes it exposes some people to hardships (which is why we should switch from capitalism, and start providing UBI), but it WILL balance out. Remember, the luddites were wrong at the end.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 days ago:
AI wasn't used to "replace human-made art", though.
To me it sounds like the team needed generic textures in big batches, and instead of spending precious designer time on hand crafting them, AI was utilised to allow the designers to focus on actual art they enjoy. I'm a software engineer, not a designer, but if I were given the option to write 8000 classes that are almost the same, or write 5 classes that will take the same effort as the 8000, but actually require using my creative skills... I'd choose the latter, and offload the 8000 boilerplates to AI.
The fact that it was replaced with human made art so quickly suggests that the AI generated ones were meant to be placeholders only anyway.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 days ago:
At the end of the day it's all about the quality in my opinion.
The entire game could be written by ONE passionate person who is awesome at writing the story and the code, but isn't good at creating textures and has no money for voice actors - in which case said textures and all the voices would be AI generated, then hand retouched to ensure quality. That would still be a good game because obvious passion went into the creation of it, and AI was used as a tool to fill out gaps of the sole debeloper's expertise.
A random software house automating a full on pipeline that watches various trends on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, etc., and chains together various genAI models to create slopware games by the dozens, on the other hand, is undefendable. There's no passion, there's no spirit, there's just greed and abuse of technology.
Differentiation between the two is super important.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 6 days ago:
Web control panel. All my network runs OpenWrt and I prefer to manage it from the web UI instead of terminal tinkering.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 6 days ago:
Yep, they're not decrypting HTTPS, I've triple checked. But we do have an MDM forced proxy service that does check any non-encrypted traffic...
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 1 week ago:
My employer does the same over a proxy. Luckily it can't breach HTTPS, but it was annoying to set all my APs and router and switches and other network nodes to HTTPS just because the damn thing would block the site the moment I sent my password in cleartext to a local device...
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 week ago:
Most definitely this.
Most lawmakers don't understand even the surface level nuances of messaging and encryption. All they see is a communication solution that can potentially be used by bad faith actors without any possible oversight by the intelligence services.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 1 week ago:
You're wrong.
Most AI datacenter orders were NOT paid premium - manufacturing simply shifted from consumer products to industrial, at the same cost essentially.
You know who's paying premium?
The average consumer who needs to buy RAM right now, because thanks to the supply drop - both already existing and foreshadowed - the price of the already available units skyrocketed.
Meanwhile the DRAM manufacturers don't care because they're getting paid the exact same amount regardless if they're producing for consumers or industrial clients.
- Comment on Well? 1 week ago:
A polite guest who brings their own refreshments.
- Comment on Great guy 1 week ago:
This is the sustainable organ farming the future needs.
- Comment on delicious wrap 1 week ago:
Döner? I hardly even know her!
- Comment on 'Fixed' my printer 1 week ago:
Yeah. You want to avoid adding any unnecessary weight to the Z axis gantry, especially if it isn't balanced and even more especially if it's on a freaking lever!
- Comment on truly heartbreaking 1 week ago:
Look at the bright side, she can listen to every song now as if it was her first time.
In fact she can do it multiple times!
- Comment on Never tried it but it sounds like fun 1 week ago:
Now we know how "Big Balls" got his name.
- Comment on Microcontroller recommendations for a weather station 1 week ago:
- You can reduce CPU freq, disable unused features and even disable a whole ass core
- There's this thing called sleep mode on ESP32 MCUs, you should probably use it 😉
- Comment on Microcontroller recommendations for a weather station 1 week ago:
+1 on the ESP32.
Very good support (incl Arduino framework which means tons of libraries for sensors), cheap, tons of variants of chips and dev boards for all sorts of purposes, plus if you buy a ready made module or dev board, you don't need wireless certification (as those come with it).
Tons of pins, tons of processing power, built in wireless support for WiFi, Bluetooth, Thread/Matter (depending on model).
And you can utilise ESPHome if you want to go for a practically codeless deployment.
- Comment on I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result 1 week ago:
I... print. Y'know, what the printer is for.
But I also use specialised filaments for certain things, and most of those do leave an oily residue on the print plate, hence cleaning regularly.
- Comment on I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result 2 weeks ago:
Wiping with alcohol between a few prints can help with adhesion but does not remove the need of cleaning the plate every 4-5 prints properly - as you've said, dish soap, a good scrub with a soft sponge (I've actually dedicated a separate Dishmatic for this purpose), rinse, repeat on other side, then dry with microfibre cloth, should do it for a good few prints.
Spray of 80-90% ISO with microfibre cloth between every print can help reduce the need for a proper clean, but marginally at best.
Wash yo plates!
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Turns out the guns were never about defending themselves against an authoritarian government.
- Comment on Do not recommend. 2 weeks ago:
Brother, the Molotov Cocktail isn't for drinking!