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Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

I understand their reasoning, but still, it soured me on the game. GenAI models being built from non-consensually mass-scraped art was known from the very start, and yet the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game... They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.

But anyway, we are free to just not agree and draw the line in different places on what we consider ethical conduct 🤷

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game

    That's the point. They didn't thought it was OK and didn't.

    They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.

    That is exactly what they did, any texture left in the first version of the game was a mistake that was promptly fixed as soon as they noticed it. We have the advantage of judging four years later with new info something they did back then and have since corrected. Ethical considerations must include intent and context, and here there was definitely no intent to harm.

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