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Kathryn Long

@voidstarkat.ca

She/her — 🇨🇦 Technical Artist — Prev. Thought Pennies, Ubisoft & BioWare — Cyborg Catgirl — LESBIAB — http://pronoun.is/she — Mastodon: https://unstable.systems/@voidstarkat

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Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 6d ago

everything else about this article aside, it's very funny to just come out and admit you have no idea what happened with the dotcom bubble. Like yeah man, the companies _investors were pouring money into_ that _had extremely high spending_ were the ones that crashed. Which ones are those right now?

"There is a lot of anxiety, but let's be honest: is AI going away? No," Valient says. "With the dotcom bubble, did the internet go away? No. All the 'I have a domain, give me money' companies went away. That's probably what happens. There are a lot of companies that will probably not survive. There's a lot of great technology and a lot of great products that will because they are simply good. That's what we are trying to do. We are first and foremost making a good engine. AI is making us faster and dreaming bigger, and designing it in a way that is faster for the future. Is it a bubble? Nobody knows. Apparently, you don't know we are in a bubble until it bursts."
GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 6d ago

Three Epic veterans are building an AI-powered game engine to break the industry's doom cycle. Amid mounting discontent with Unity and Unreal, Immens promises lower costs and faster development for small teams. https://bit.ly/4xRY14m

Corey Brickley@coreybrickley.bsky.social · 6d ago

yes AI detectors are bullshit. They are LLMs giving you answers that appear correct. Every year a new wave of people hate ai and then learn detectors are also bad

Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне@barsukov.com · last wk.

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне@barsukov.com · last wk.

AI RANT (cont’d) The most troubling thing about this is, Originality AI is apparently used by agents & publishers alike. Dear agents and publishers, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET: AI “detectors” are slop machines same as the slop machines whose output they purport to analyze. 🧵4/5

Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне@barsukov.com · last wk.

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray.bsky.social · 6d ago

Another example of “if you don’t want to do your job (which you were perfectly capable of doing before 2023) then just leave.” “I’m not a professional writer” he says - yes you are! You write articles for your job!!

Richard Van Noorden@richvn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Dan Johnson will design games for food@coil.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you haven't worked in the industry in the last two years because you've been unable to find a job, it'll boot you out of the survey. So say you're self-employed.

"Why do you see yourself leaving the game industry [in the next twelve months]?" AAA layoffs are decimating institutional knowledge and making a stable career impossible. Greed-first financial climate makes AA funding precarious. The job market is impossibly competitive. A lack of functional marketing systems makes indie success a coin flip at best. And cost of living in "industry cities" is too high to bear a long unemployment spell."What considerations or values guide your decisions about if, when, or how to use generative AI tools in your work?" Personally: it short-circuits any learning process and atrophies personal skill. Discipline: It's unsuitable for the work I do (design). Professionally: genAI output is not protected by copyright and may expose me to theft/plagiarism liability. Industry: it's being over-deployed for work it can't do and used as an excuse to lay off, under-hire, and overwork workers. Societally: the genAI industry is vacuuming up investment money and starving other industries, including games. Morally: LLMs and image generators are trained on creative work taken without declaration, consent, or compensation.
Raj Patel@rajio.bsky.social · last wk.

They haven't posted about it yet but this year's GDC State of the Game Industry Survey is available to fill out should any of you desire. You've seen all the articles and that the results end up driving, so may as well make them reflective of your contributions too. gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26eoy

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · last wk.

Gonna keep telling this story. I watched an hour long "How To Write An AI Novel" how to video out of curiosity and I shit you not, 60% of the video was about how to trick Claude into writing something that didn't look like it was AI. If genAI is a tool, it's core audience uses it mostly for fraud.

Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · last wk.

everybody clearly wants Al which is why if anybody is able to tell a business used it their customers will leave

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · last wk.

Here’s a bank saying the thing that everyone else in the EU can see with their own eyes. If you weaken climate action because you want better economic outcomes, your economic outcomes get much worse because of the bad climate change you could have acted on.

Rosamunde Van Brakel@rosamundevb.bsky.social · last wk.

A Dutch bank has warned that Europe risks falling into a “doom loop” in which climate damage slows economic growth, prompting governments to weaken climate policy, and so leaving the continent even more exposed to future heatwaves. euobserver.com/232026/eu-fu...

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · last wk.

Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?

parkchanwoohoo Follow Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue werewolf-beans Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.