consent is bad for business.
Because extractive capitalism hates informed consent. When interacting with an extractive capitalist, keep one hand on your wallet and one hand covering your drink.
It might be the pitchforks.
If you don’t like pitchforks, don’t do things that invite pitchforks. It’s really that simple.
…well… let’s not pretend that the internet mob is completely rational in all its brigading… the pitchforks come out and get pointed in various directions for no good reason quite often…
I can’t really blame anyone working in PR for feeling the need to tread carefully. That said, it’s probably time we had some fair trade/labor practice disclosure standards for video games and/or computer software in general.
That shouldn’t be too extreme an idea to be practical - we have such things in other industries already, like clothing and food production.
I’m surprised we don’t have disclosures for working conditions. Gamers like the suffering of developers. It’s part of the power fantasy.
I would love for you to defend that logic in like any other scenario. Hey, that drug company didn’t need to say that the children’s cancer medicine they we’re making was really just Zima, that would have just upset the people with pitchforks.
So you’re saying it’s not the pitchforks?
Because these “game developers” are grifters: They’re into it for the money. They see it as a passive income source they can have on top of their main full time job. And they all think that artists of all kinds drive at least a Porsche if not outright a Bugatti, because they saw some rich rapper like that.
It’s impossible to be “convinced” by this utter narrow-minded, degrading, obliterating, permanently damaging sorrow…
At some point, you just get tired of stating on public over and over… over and over… that absolutely no AI must ever exist in human art - never ever at all…
Art has a meaning, a weight, precious priceless value, the purpose… only when it’s of a human work…
Art is also a timeless universal conversation between people passing experience, ideas, love…
Regardless, whether it’s an asset, texture, shape, shader…
This is all what is to be preserved in the history…
Of the history of us the miracles, human…A hand-made work has a Human’s name on it… Who lived, learned, experienced… and expressed their unique view in a work to pass further…
The artist’s name may not be advertised, but it would exist and always possible to find to glorify…
Since isn’t it one of the main purposes of Art? To achieve, experience, to express and learn from each other…
This is an achievement that also supports you in long-term, as an Artist, who managed, who achieved, who learned and did it…Now, someone used AI in their work, and now the output has no name on it. It’s empty. It’s noise.
AI in art is always an unbearable noise… built on stolen and meatground effort of actual artists…
It radiates with screams and cries in painful sorrow… of unknown effort and love now decimated and passed through an algorithm of shallow hopelessness at vacuumed void…There’s nothing in AI for art, and there’s no achievement deserved to be inscribed into our human history… to learn from… to be proud of…
If I ever see anything related to AI in any art-related subjects, I don’t even consider it but skip it - it’s a disgusting empty noise that does not deserve any human time nor effort.
All these “AI” infestations are pure awful disrespect to our ancestors, the Human history… and our dear future…
And I will never consider it. It would mean death to me, since there’s no hope nor purpose in it to live for.
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Miyamoto explained that there is a difference between creating and “executing” an idea, which has changed over time as technology has changed, and AI is at risk of replacing the execution element of many jobs.
“The tricky part is that the execution phase is actually quite enjoyable, and it provides a real sense of satisfaction,” Miyamoto said via Japanese outlet 4Gamer. “The greatest danger is becoming so content with the execution that you mistakenly believe you’ve created something truly great.”…
“I urge you to move away from the approach of taking an existing, enjoyable game and simply modifying it to make it ‘even better’,” he said. “It is far more rewarding, and I believe, much more fun to start from scratch, building upon an original idea that stems from the thought: ‘wouldn’t it be interesting to try something like this?'”
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
SourceThis, Shigeru Miyamoto’s, is authentic… truthful… that gives hope, will power to keep moving forward… to believe…
This is the genuine… These are hands, mind, heart, experience, love…
This will always be invaluably precious and significant…
This a true Artist attitude.- - -
The nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing…
~ “Six Feet Under” - Axty
It’s everywhere. Programmers who hate AI use Claude for their coding projects.
People who hate data centers use Gemini to ask questions.
There is a deep contradiction in people’s minds. At this point, we should focus on harm reduction: local first, ethical training.
Where are these programmers who use AI despite hating it? Unless a really good job outright requires it, I’m never using it for programming, or anything else. I’d actually look for a new job that doesn’t require AI usage.
People around me. Software engineer who burned out. Electrical engineers who are depressed. Devops too.
I feel it’s like the company AI mandate causes those talents to hook on some drug. They know it’s bad, but they can’t get rid of it.
Am one of those, and it is just giving up, as you describe it. I hate it, I hate every prompt and every line of generated code I need to review. Problem is you are essentially required to use it and it does something to your brain, but I would still never use it for a personal project outside of work. I am looking for a different job because of this.
You’re me if I was lucky enough to have a programmer lol
I still haven’t needed to use it tbh, happily waiting for the other shoe to drop
