"hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays virtue."

Using AI art is one thing, but no one's going to be using 100% AI free code from any moderately sized software house.

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.

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 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.