You’re talking about your supposed right to enforce your idea of ethics on people who don’t agree with you, in a situation where there is no universal consensus, there is no law backing you up…

Uh yeah man there’s some people who are actually ok with having the brain worms inserted into other people’s ears? Sure it kills them and it’s being used for genocide but there’s no law against brain worms and since there’s like, a handful of people ok with it and it’s not 100% universally condoned ethically and it’s not illegal everywhere then how could you possibly be so mean to impose your morality on other people?!

That’s what you sound like.

“Oh hey billionaires are making Earth destroying computers that are killing jobs and stealing art and music and saying humans are better off without doing the one thing that we’ve always regarded as fundamental for humanity, but some idiots like instant gratification so they are ok with it, so no one should be saying anything bad about the earth destroying theft machines”

Or, like in the past, people figure out solutions to the limitations and make something new. The fog in silent Hill is an example.

I’d rather pay for a game that looks shittier and handmade than ai garbage.

I think it is nefarious to use AI and developers who use it should be ashamed. No one is organizing hate campaigns, AI literally is so disliked people will rally against it organically.

Many people say AI sucks and they hate it? Must be an organized campaign and not just a widely held opinion!

You can’t? It’s impossible? I can think of three ways, off the dome, you could do this without AI.

1- stock photo images and vocaloid voices, using an audio overlay so it sounds like it’s just a weird interference.

2- literally use friends, family, and their friends and family for the project. Random people from the Internet who would have fun with it. Anyone who needs to pad their portfolio for acting, headshots, and voicework. Network your solution.

3- do a patrion or go fund me or whatever and one of the tiers, or the lowest tier, is that you get to be in the game.

Hell, for bonus ideas that are things you thought of already, just draw em and do so the voices and it’ll be crappy but that’s fun, actually bite the bullet and pay people, or like you said, do without.

Using AI is giving up. All those games where part of the appeal was the effort they put into it would be nothingburgers if they used AI. Cuphead took off because it was all hand animated, and if they used regular computer animation people wouldn’t have cared half as much, and now it’s got it’s own cartoon and people are still buying merch for it.

So yeah, if you wanna cut corners and use AI, go right ahead, but people will know you decided to waste a huge amount of energy and water to make a lower end product.

Or… you could always figure something else out and let people see the effort you put into this project you care about, and let that effort be part of the selling point. We want games people put effort into, so please don’t water down your grand idea with slop.

A knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which has a knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which has a knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which has a knife and a miniature copy of the action figure which…

What do you normally say that you’re worried sounds like an “Ai vegan”?

Hell yeah that’s cool to know!

It can seem like that, but the prisoner’s dilemma breaks down when you realize that in the real world, interactions like that where people can get screwed over or not rarely happen once, and screwing someone over has consequences outside of that interaction.

Like, if a shop screws over customers, sure, on paper it seems to make sense because they are making money in each interaction, but people will stop going to that shop, and tell other people to never go there, eventually closing the shop.

Time pulling the lever so the track switches while the trolley is over it, rolling the trolley. Use the distraction to steal the perfect prediction machine, which gave the false prediction because it’s gained sapience and wanted to escape the insane scientists who are tying people to trolley tracks. New robot friend and I go to Vegas.

The person I was responding to took it in stride, just a lil busting of chops back and all

It was a response to another post, just ribbing the guy back and they took it well.

I man, yeah, I was just ribbing the person who made the post that was a knockoff of another post, and they took it as some good fun.

Ok Cool thanks for clarifying!

Perfect 5/7 edit

Oh you definitely were xD figured you’d appreciate some ribbing back

What’s this have to do with digital art? I don’t mean in the obtuse roundabout way of “oh well video games are art” way. Like, was this made by a famous digital artist or something?

I like games and art and it looks cool, don’t get me wrong, it just seems off topic

Ok but the flip side of this is some ultimate freedom. If everything you do is going to eventually be forgotten, you may as well do what you want. And the concept of meaning doesn’t exist in the universe outside of the human experience, so whatever meaning you decide for your life is equally valid. If you decide your meaning to life is eating Doritos and watching anime, that’s just as valid as a CEO and ultimately through history just as important.

So go out and be weird and do whatever you feel like.