I saw this today and found the points made rather interesting.
Which makes me wonder. Are we in this CPC scene forum in a similar situation where we don’t know what to do about this; baffled between ethics, personal opinions and behavior codes? We are close to 400 posts into this discussion and still, the frontpage is being populated with new slop every day (either raw careless slop or slop refined around the edges to appear agreeable or, the worst kind, slop that pretends to not be slop; all still SLOP though).
And I’m not sure what the deal is, really. I saw this topic created today and realized there’s no point to talk about games anymore. Anyone can make a list, check it twice, no care who’s been naughty or nice, spend a few bucks on his favorite LLM and, voila! Why even bother to talk with actual people about it, what reason is there to understand the technicalities or, ultimately, care if the bloody thing works? And upload everything at itchio with a ‘name your price’ tag, then some people will pick all those up and create equal number of threads in the wiki, as if there’s not enough FB pages, X posts and other quick engagement feeds they get reposted at already.
Then, when (entirely random choice) I get annoyed and ask for people not to leave their trash at my regular hangout’s doorstep, I learn I am allowed to not look at them, and I believe eventually will be reminded the option to ‘go elsewhere if I don’t like’.
@Devlin had mentioned the Nazi Bar Parable, which makes a brute analogy because of the ‘nazi’ component, however it’s not hard to understand the point. So, have we reached that moment were we don’t care and silently showing ourselves the exit, while our niche place turns into something entirely different? Or are we patiently waiting it out, hopping the slopers and their fans get bored and move to the next hot thing? Or do we go balls to the walls ‘lol, fuck AI’?
I believe some people have actually even written in this thread something along the lines of ‘should just accept it and move on’, which puts me off entirely.
There’s my Monday morning rant; need moar coffee 