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VRChat@vrchat.com · 3d ago

Honestly, introducing new per-feature restrictions (i.e. if you violate an avatar rule, you can't upload avatars for a few days) is a VAST improvement over the current "make one honest mistake and don't see your friends for over a week" status quo. Hopefully those days are past us.

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Left: The disability pride flag Right: The Arc Raiders game logo I'm sure Arc Raiders is a fun game, but no, I'm not repping the "Arc Raiders Pride Flag" on my VRChat banner XD

A picture of the disability pride month flag, with a dark gray background (representing anger, mourning and rebellion) and five diagonal stripes of muted color, from left to right: red (physical disabilities), yellow (neurodiversity), white (invisible and undiagnosed disabilities), blue (emotional and psychiatric disabilities) and green (for sensory disabilities).

A Spooky Marshmallow@talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social · 4d ago

This. If you block out all the folks who cause any tension by posting "drama" or "politics" in the fandom, you may find down the road that you are surrounded by people who truly don't have your best interests at heart, only to wonder why nobody warned you sooner. We certainly tried to!

"UwU no pawatics" is how actual Nazis and the alt-right stay embedded in furry spaces, though. It's why you didn't know PeaceWolf's actual acts. It's why people are still giving money to Vivid Publishing or buying pooltoys from Horseplay. Intentionally not knowing makes you less safe.

Ryan Markel@ryanmarkel.com · 4d ago

Oh, it's getting talked about, because it's already happening. I've had to restrict pull requests on my FOSS software to approved contributors because of the nonstop "slop grenades" thrown at us. Our "AGENTS.md" file tells coding agents that they are, for the most part, not welcome here.

Here’s a thing about LLM code generation that people haven’t mentioned much, even in theory: The thought that open source projects might either close their source or make the bar for contribution significantly higher due to the onslaught of vibe-coded submissions.

Char's lil meow meow mewtype @mewtype.online · 3d ago

I spend most of my day as a slopjanitor for the vibe coded messes my coworkers shit out. So this checks out

Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 4d ago

She's been deteriorating over the course of the day and i'm terrified, please help. We do not have much money this month and i'm stressed as hell.

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videah θΔ @videah.net · 4d ago

I prayed for this day

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Nora Voilyn @noravoilyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW ALBUM OUT NOW ! I am so, so, so proud of this album, please listen to it <3~

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 5d ago

"I think it's cool that you and your LLM supposedly got this to work. It has no place in my world." is now my favorite AI bro brush-off.

Kybosh@kybosh.bsky.social · 5d ago

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

e(Ag)le 🦅@silvereagle.dev · 4d ago

I sincerely do not know how to tell YouTube Shorts to stop giving me "Person reads out a post from Tumblr on top of someone jumping around in Minecraft" videos because it seems to have started doing so and absolutely refuses, no matter how many "don't recommend this channel"s I give it, to quit it

e(Ag)le 🦅@silvereagle.dev · 5d ago

I shared my thoughts and wanted to list them here as well so folks know where I stand. I encourage you to share your feedback with VRChat as well. Be civil, but be yourself, be passionate, speak your mind honestly.

A screenshot of VRChat's AI survey question "Where's your line? Optional. Tell us where AI use starts to matter to you, and why." with my response:

"I largely agree with the classifications outlined by the graphic in the VRChat post. Minor coding assistance, translations, or other machine-learning-powered tools built into editors that have long existed don't bother me, but placing Generative AI in a position where it is making creative decisions that directly affect the experience of the world is a bridge too far. While I would not say such worlds should be banned outright (nor do I think this is even possible to enforce), I would endeavor to avoid supporting GenAI-based worlds in places where human effort is meant to be rewarded (including the Discover Worlds UI, events like Spookality, or highlights like VRChat's community world showcase), and to enable users to have much finer control over whether they see these things in their day-to-day experience."

Screenshot of VRChat's AI feedback form, on the question "Anything else you want us to know?" with my response:

"To me, VRChat is largely a vehicle for the human experience in all its forms. It is a platform where you connect to other humans in worlds and avatars built by those same humans. This authenticity matters a great deal to us, as it is one of the few places where many of us feel we can truly be "ourselves", and we have built strong and meaningful connections with others who are genuinely expressing who they are. I fully understand why, to creators who dedicate tremendous amounts of time and energy into hand-crafting experiences for an audience they care deeply about and are often a part of themselves, the increasing use of Generative AI threatens to diminish the value of their work and lower the overall quality of the VRChat experience.

More than that, though, I think the embrace of (and resistance to) Generative AI speaks to bigger issues in the world. GenAI has imposed a very real and devastating cost to human beings. Already many creatives are losing their careers or being forced into soul-crushing new workloads that prioritize productivity over passion because of GenAI. That's not to mention the societal inequality it helps to preserve, the pollution it causes, or the misinformation and deception it enables, all of which have made our lives materially worse. We cannot support those things, and thus we do not support GenAI itself, and to see it be supported or used in places we consider our "safe escape" from the troubles of reality is that much more heartbreaking."

(Continues in next screenshot)

Screenshot of continuation of response from previous screenshot, with my response:

"I think the reason this issue refuses to go away is because it's a microcosm of a societal struggle we're all engaged in every day. So many of us are just exhausted at seeing our quality of life deteriorate while a small number of billionaires tell us what that the terrible future they're promising us is inevitable. We feel powerless to change any of that at the systemic or societal levels, so we opt instead to carve out small curated communities where we *can* influence the way things go. Many of those communities are right here in VRChat, so when we see the company express what we could describe as indifference toward our strongly held principles, we're painfully reminded that VRChat is, after all, just another capitalist enterprise in the real world, subject to all the same pressures and obligations as any other company, and that gnaws at our soul just a little. We just want one spot, one little corner of the world, where all this bullshit isn't standing over our shoulder, waiting to crush our happiness. We really want VRChat to be that place."

VRChat@vrchat.com · 5d ago

Let's talk about AI in VRChat. Be sure to fill out the Google form at the bottom of the article. ask.vrchat.com/t/regarding-...

e(Ag)le 🦅@silvereagle.dev · 5d ago

Love to see a community movement like this that just absolutely refuses to go quietly into that good night. By all accounts, it's already being seen by (and pissing off) all the right people, with some GenAI "creators" saying they're "discouraged" and don't want to get on VRC. Keep it up, folks.

💙𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮🦇@batwolves.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's really been great to see what's starting to happen now that more people are getting together to express their disappointment

big @b1g.monster · last wk.

I will not be creating for a platform that both uses and promotes AI generated content. #VRChat please join me in placing this poster in your worlds. share it and edit it freely, spread it as far as you can. nothing is going to change if we don't put our foot down now. vrc.group/NOAI.3843

Poster advocating against VRChat's use and promotion of content utilizing generative AI that can be used

Oh for fuck sake, CVS has an "AI assistant" now for calls, and all the traditional get-me-to-a-fucking-human tricks don't work on this thing. It'll even mislead you, like "Before I transfer you, can you tell me what you're asking about?" and then it'll redirect you back to it again. Miserable.

SPEAKING OF shitty people doing well on Twitch, a lotta folks were apparently upset when I brought up that FA protected and supported a pro-contact zoophile. That story's true! ChaseRedRocket (later Chase, now Xanaecor, a Twitch streamer with 6k followers) was secretly kept as FA staff for years.

PeaceWolf, for the unfamiliar, chaired Free Fur All, the MAGA-esque right-winger furcon in Tulsa, which had 2 Gryphon as a GoH in 2022 and Jasonafex/Kabier in 2023. PeaceWolf famously fell in love with those latter Nazi fucks and left her husband for them, a story she illustrated in 2023.

Slainmonkey@slainmonkey.bsky.social · 6d ago

It bugs me to no end that Peace Wolf (the literal Nazi fur) has found success as a twitch streamer under the name of “Peacedubz”….remember folks if you see her around, she’s an actual fucking nazi.

Мишка, the Skunkset @skunkset.beachmilk.party · 6d ago

I'm so tired of seeing the phrase "purity test." Disliking someone because they are fundamentally at odds with a strongly held principle of mine is not a "purity test". It is the basic way by which we as humans discern who we think is decent and who isn't. Literally everyone does it all the time.

I’m performing here in VRC in about 10 min :3 Come join on me and vibe~! 🧡

_pegasys 🔜 DETOUR 10/09@pegasys.creature.house · last wk.

hi everypony!!! I am hosting a birthday event in vrchat this weekend featuring a bunch of my friends djing!! come by!! times in comments :333 all times and performers in comments <3333 from 9:00PM to 1:00 AM EDT

TheBlackParrot@theblackparrot.me · 6d ago

The "Second COVID" analogy continues to hold up quite well. If you bring up to people using GenAI that it has huge human costs, including people we know and care about, they'll shrug and say "eh, it's not hurting *me*, so, skill issue" and make it out like you were nuts for bringing it up at all.

open a stream, streamer has an AI cake plastered on their screen, asked sbout it, said it was "pulled off the internet" open another stream that just started, starting soon music had AI artifacts. unfollowed. didn't bother asking about it shit like this makes me want to give everything up, man

I'm doing fine, feeling better after a shower, a sandwich and some quality time with quality critters in VR. I think for my own sake, I should spend a little less time on here for a bit. It hasn't been good for me lately. That constant feeling of "you couldn't change a thing if you tried" is awful.

evalka@evalka.bsky.social · last wk.

Well, I guess that explains the silence. They want in on the slopfest themselves, and any tagging mechanism they built would inevitably be used against their own works. Though it was apparently reverted, the sheer audacity to try this right now is kind of astonishing.

The login page for @vrchat.com has an AI modified background for until it loads a video background, instead of featuring creator's worlds like it used to. This platform is falling apart.

Whisper/Hobnoxus @whisperings.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm done with this FurAffinity shit. I've had people downplay a hugely traumatic part of my life, try to argue every point with me as if I'm supposed to have all the answers, and so many people starting sentences like "Aw that sucks, BUT..." like they can talk me out of my own hurt.

The secret b3b from @pvrty.online this past weekend is uploaded! Had an amazingly fun time doing this with @ekkofox.online and @yesiamlusky.bsky.social , and can't wait to do it again, go show those two some love too! soundcloud.com/ekko/mothers...

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Sikata Raeda@sikata.northsky.social · last wk.

I have a lotta friends up in the Northeast corridor...if there's anyone who can help my dear friend Sikata out, she really needs help to stay where she is. She is an incredibly sweet bean who recently escaped Texas and I only want the best for her.

So I'm officially in a CRISIS. My roommates are no longer able to house me due to financial reasons [one of them takes life saving medication that costs 500+ monthly, on top of rising rent]. I have 1 month to find a place in Western PA, or I'm forced to return to Texas. [I don't wanna go back.]