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"The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe (www.windowscentral.com)
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It's a different story for the more established studios with an existing following and previous titles. Game Oracle found that the use of AI by these studios resulted in a significant 40% to 60% drop in sales.

That's a huge difference. AI stigma seems to hit competent developers with a lot to lose the hardest, and I'm not sure that game studios are ready to accept it.

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"I don’t see it as theft anymore than an author reading a book, being inspired by it, and writing their own..."

Great, so then the result is neither your work, nor something that anyone should be paying for when you produce a game using AI. The AI was the one inspired to make it and did so with existing materials, you just ordered it to.

"I suspect it’s because you hold an incorrect..."

If it's factually incorrect, then you can't suspect such a thing because there's no room for doubt. It's no more correct or incorrect than your subjective assertion which is how we can have a disagreement. Just asserting your correctness is not a factual validation of your stance, which is one driven by bias as you personally benefit from the use of AI. Not saying you're not allowed to use that language but it is rhetorically deceptive and that's not lost on me.

"However, that is not viable for a lone developer with no budget..."

Countless now successful independent developpers started out this way. I personally think we should have a financial incentive system to reward their effort and help them start up like some pilot programs in Ireland seek to do, rather than defer to private capital and technology that is ruinous to our ecology and economy for a tool to ease access and lower the threshhold of skill. The blissful ignorance of externalities in your used of AI in an apparent 'vacuum' is galling, frankly. Cursing Meta and acknowledging their horrible practices begs the acknowledgement that ALL AI training as we have seens so far has similar impacts, and if not I think you should send me some information about this miraculous tool you're using that shows how it is markedly different. I'll believe in such a thing if you can.

"which highlights the moral quandary you are conveniently overlooking..."

No, because even if that were your argument, and to be clear it wasn't; Using AI is a choice and being gay is not. There's nothing at all convenient about the terrible analogy you invoked, and I don't know why you're trying to rescue it lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I know your type. I'll just save us both time and energy: yes, you're right about everything! I was wrong, and could never be as smart as you. You know so much more than me! All your arguments are pristine and mine are indefensible. You know my analogies better than I do myself! I should have had you write them, and then explain them to me, rather than attempting to think for myself.

    Please forgive me for the error of my ways for not thinking like you and the rest of the popular kids in the mob. You are all so knowledgeable and incapable of error. I was a fool to have my own opinions. I throw myself at the mercy of your forgiveness. I'll only perform right-think now. Watch, please:

    AI is bad! It is evil! Anyone who says otherwise is simply lazy, and they don't own any of their own ideas! I bet they use AI to even have opinions, so therefore everything they say is invalid! They are thieves who have stolen from artists. Nothing an AI-user thinks or says has any merit! They simultaneously will steal all our jobs, but paradoxically everything they create is slop of no value!

    Happy? I'm going back to developing using a candle, with a hamster in a wheel powering my typewriter, to make sure I don't offend you in the future with my use of evil technology again, sir. I won't risk using electricity because it may have been generated by coal, ruining our ecology, and I won't risk having ideas of my own because I might have seen a similar idea in the past, and I don't want to risk stealing an idea from someone just like an AI would. Only the original creators can have ideas, I recognize now that I cannot. If I had an idea, it probably came from an AI so it was stolen from someone by default. I won't try to make analogies, because I don't know which ones have been approved by you as morally allowed. I probably wouldn't even understand my own arguments, even if I did. I'm just not smart enough. Not like you, oh brilliant one.

    lol

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