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am i wrong for enjoying code?? this keeps popping up in random conversations where people who otherwise believe using ai to do things for you is unjustified are like 'oh but code is obviously fine' without a second thought. i am pretty sure i already bleeted this

hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.

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Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."
Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Just reworked enemy's attack telegraph, and re-added (and fixed) the automatic reverse elbow kick that happens if you attack someone in your back. It adds a LOT to the feeling of brawling

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Oh look I was right. Oh well, just $1 billion that never gets wired to anybody after an endless media hype cycle about the death of hollywood. Pobody's Nerfect! I'm sure everybody who wrote scary stories about Sora 2 destroying Hollywood will apologize www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 6mo ago

From what I can see, Disney didn't mention its (supposed) $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI on its most-recent quarterly and annual reports. The AI bubble is a mirage! investors.thewaltdisneycompany.com/files/doc_fi... investors.thewaltdisneycompany.com/files/doc_fi...

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Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion." Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social

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