To any indie devs hit by this: send me an e-mail (address should be in my profile), maybe I can do something about it.
Are you from steam support or are one of the hitmen they hire to deal with those situations?
When the laws don’t help, when the community guidelines don’t help, you do it yourself.
Dragon’s Chronicles developer Takashi Mochibe received a demand for $200 in Steam items within 24 hours to prevent an alleged AI-made SRPG clone from launching first on Steam. He suspected the email was bulk spam; similar demands targeted developers of Iron Pilgrim and Circusar, and no payments were reported.
It seems like it would be easy to play along and set up a sting. Get the info for the mule account, send the items, report the mule account to steam, and steam can nab everyone based on where the mule transfers items to.
Who would have thought that the same, morally bankrupt, unintelligent, Dunning-Kruger addled, narcissistic and sociopathic people who suddenly see a chance to “play with the big boys” just without knowing anything or putting effort into it would resort to something like this?
Their failure is never their own fault, or their lack of work they put into learning things, always -others- holding them and their -amazing- (read: shitty/crap) ideas back.
I hate this timeline with a passion. Social media gave all the trolls and village idiots a platform, and now “AI” -seemingly- allows the eternally inept to feel like a programmer or designer or artist, w/o the effort and the results of course.
Their clueless reactions to the backlash to their slop is evidence enough that the light may be on, but absolutely nobody is home
I was trying to have a coffee yesterday while two guys next to me were having the most mind numbing conversation about AI.
The worst part is that when they go on about “spinning up agents”, discussing which models are better than others, someone listening in might be tricked into thinking they’re actually intelligent or understand something complicated. It’s already developed a jargon that obfuscates the fact that they’re just typing brain dead prompts into a chatbox and pretending they’re wizards.
Turns out the guy wanted to give Claude full disk access so it can automatically download/upload videos he’s editing from remote storage. I sincerely hope the fucker loses all his data.
When ai came out everyone wanted a way to speak to their computer and have it actually do anything you could do or automate it, it literally can with agents and does it well, I ssh into my pc and use it over terminal all the time for stuff that would be a chore to do unless I was sitting at my pc. (You can use any chat really, telegram, discord, etc.) It literally asks before doing anything, you can have it memorize that it should always make backups or work readonly with duplicates, etc. if you’re scared of losing sht, but I’ve had it recover things for me that I’ve lost myself very often, never has it been the reason I lost anything.
Also solves any issues I have with ram/cpu usage by finding the cause and giving me options to limit them. My lazy ass would never do that before and just restart and uninstall the potential causes of my new performance issues.
everyone wanted a way to speak to their computer
No one who has the slightest idea of how to use a computer has ever wanted that.
That’s an awfully stupid, obnoxious, inefficient, and unreliable way to control an interface.
Want your computer to do things, read the fucking screen (seriously, 99% of IT is just that, 99% of the remaining 1% is reading the fucking manual, and 99% of what remains is trauma from having encountered some related undocumented issue in the past and having had to solve it by yourself), and click on whatever option does what you want.
Or use the command line if that’s your thing.
Want to automate something, use whatever task scheduler your OS comes with. It’s not rocket surgery.
Want it to do something it doesn’t already do, that’s what programming is for. And 99% of the time someone else has already done it, for free more often than not, so just save yourself time and use their work.
If you need a slop machine to operate your computer, you are not qualified to operate it (or any other form of machinery; computers are easy, as I said, just read the fucking screen, and the manual for good measure), and shouldn’t be allowed near one lest you become a risk to yourself and others.
Your mental disability is not my problem
What an awful time to be alive.
Epic and Valve on the slop slide. This is an opportunity for GOG and its game preservation efforts.
First of all, regarding the quality of the asset: This banner was a work-in-progress asset that we mistakenly allowed to be displayed on the storefront. This shouldn’t have happened. We failed on at least two levels: Quality-control of the asset that landed on the front page, and then reacting quickly enough when we noticed the error.
Second, I want to confirm that this WIP asset was indeed made with the help of Al tools. We hear your disappointment with the use of this technology, and see that it’s a sensitive topic for many of you.
I also want to be honest about how we chose to explore technology: We don’t have the infinite resources of the industry giants. We’re a dedicated, but small team, working our asses off every day for game preservation. To keep that mission alive, bring more games back to life, and make more games DRM-free, we experiment with tools that can allow us to do more with the limited hands we have.
We’ve been testing different technologies since our beginnings. Some experiments are successful, and some (like this banner) are not. Exploring various tech gives us the reach of a much larger team, so we never have to settle for doing less.
I’m not sure how much you should really be relying on GOG to be anti-AI. They haven’t been caught using AI images since, but “We failed on at least two levels: Quality-control of the asset that landed on the front page” implies that they’re fine with AI so long as you can’t really tell.
And that was pretty soon after another “mistake” where they spammed a bunch of Nazi shit to customers emails. Everybody and everything fucking sucks.
Why is Valve on the slop side?
Valve allows slop on their platform. Their perspective is that gamers won’t buy the slop, or rate it bad/refund it if they do, so it’s not an issue.
I’m glad that Valve isn’t intervening so much and allows the publication as if it was their own website. We don’t want Valve to decide what slop is and what not, it shouldn’t be Valves decision. You don’t want to give Valve this power. Instead, inform the user, and let each of them decide for themselves if they want it or not.
