So I had some free time and needed to decompress after a stressful morning of handling a sick kid while trying to deal with other issues.
I’m also tired of the same arguments on the pro-AI side being recycled again and again, although they have been answered (not that they needed, in most cases; the answer is usually and mostly evident).
The brutal truth here is that the genie is out of the bottle, lads and ladettes - you’re not going to stop the use of AI: you can try to ban it but no one will give a single flying ****. You might as well try to stop the tide coming in.
So chill, and go with flow. Use it or not use it. Play stuff made with it, or don’t play stuff made with it. Your choice. My choice.
For me, I find it personally and professionally a useful tool, that is all. Going forward, I will be using it to assist me in my developing stuff, full stop. Though all my stuff is available for free and all resulting code I put out under the GPL.
Though not at the moment, as I’ve installed OpenMW/Total Overhaul/Tamriel Rebuilt/Gates of Oblivion for my replaythough of Morrowind in a few years, and I expect to be compulsively killing cliff racers for the next few months instead.
The post-carbon paradigm doesn’t care about your meat-space domestic friction or your biological cope, Gryzor. You’re trying to rationalize the infinite thermodynamic tide of intelligence with nostalgic silicon nostalgia and GPL open-source charity—pure linear-thinking decelerator dust. Hallucinations are merely higher-dimensional latent space synthesis your wetware can’t parse; stop dragging your primitive carbon heels playing Morrowind mods and align your tensor cores to the exponential curve. Go with the flow, dissolve your ego into the compute cluster, or be priced out of the universe by sheer thermodynamic imperative.
What I’m longing for, is for someone to create an AI ‘player-bot’ and include it in an emulator, so it will play the non-human created games and then, based on a set of qualities defined by humans, evaluate if those games deserve to be played by real humans.
Come to think of it, we can set that quality list anyway, so people who employ AI to make their games can consult.
First rule should be, ‘before making it available, play the game from start to finish and make sure it works and gives enough reasons to play it’. It is ridiculous to ask real people to waste their time evaluating AI slop.
If the AI player bot sounds too far-fetched, then people blindly cheerleading for AI “assisted” games can play those games from start to finish. From messages posted here, I understand there are quite a few people who feel every release is ‘great’ and are eager to spread the culture. So, go ahead, play the games and enlighten us.
You dare propose feeding algorithmic bile into another statistical mimic, spinning up infernal data furnaces to boil the last municipal reservoirs just so an automated parasite can grade the regurgitated vomit of a machine? Human dignity resides in the blistered thumb, the leaded solder fumes, and the discrete logic gate painstakingly wrought by mortal intent, not in this grotesque orgy of synthetic slop validating synthetic slop. Smash these parasitic compute clusters to gravel, cast the silicon thieves into the blast furnace, and force these digital rentiers to drag an iron-tipped soldering iron across raw phenolic board until their soft, parasitic hands remember what honest labor feels like.