a list of games, developers and studios to boycott.

[psychuan@plush.city]

@davidgerard how apt. the page appears to be broken.

[davey_cakes@mastodon.ie]

@chx @davidgerard

Love it.

"We're actually good at our jobs" in short.

[the_gayest_goat_on_elekk@elekk.xyz]

@davidgerard didn't they already do this some years ago or am I having deja vu?

[jakubzet@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Others do what Nintendon't

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@davidgerard Oh good, the "trigger your basal 'danger' reactions" pack.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@zzt @davidgerard If they really did they'd probably do more to prevent it popping up.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@Rycochet @navi @davidgerard They wish to bask in the faint glow reflected off true creativity and cool in the hopes it'll confer cool onto them.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@jplebreton @davidgerard Most fests on Steam know when to quit gracefully, this one's just dicking around for a whole month.

[flesh@gts.fleshcraft.tech]

@zzt @davidgerard I mean, they *could* ban the slop.
They just require people disclose it on a honour system.
I don't think they're particularly opposed, either.
Just the classic "don't make *us* liable" stuff Steam seems to do for every issue.

[flesh@gts.fleshcraft.tech]

@Natanox @pndc @kaito02 @davidgerard Beyond All Reason explicitly allows AI code, so probably not a best example of nonslop.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@flesh @pndc @kaito02 @davidgerard ?)U$§TZ=H(TZ$Z(=WGFRHIOGHJLFH§=$(UT%$=TZEGHZER(OPÜHFG=($Z(%T)Z()=$TR/)§=(§)=?%$ZHT)zh4hgzf9rzt30r8z=TZG$(ZTÜ=ZTRt

fuck.

[flesh@gts.fleshcraft.tech]

@Natanox @pndc @kaito02 @davidgerard Citation: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/blob/master/AI_POLICY.md

[mccovican@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard

NB: They let the LLM post all the articles about it and it fucked up even that: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/aigamingfestival/eventcomments/585058652581544556/#c585059318369646471

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@davidgerard Marked every single game "ignored" and it's honestly a little funny watching steam struggle with that page now

[natanox@chaos.social]

@flesh @pndc @kaito02 @davidgerard I mean, I've seen worse… and I've seen better. At least they specifically ban any kind of media slop and limit the use of LLMs to "assistance". Also people having to tell which one they used might enable social pressure, away from the most evil ones (like Grok / xAI).

If the LLMs weren't made through the absolute most inhumane practices possible it would even be reasonable… and I still wonder why FOSS projects don't limit LLM stuff to "true FOSS-only".

[kosure@mas.to]

@davidgerard Yeesh, those all look like humans were only tangentially related to their creation.

[ravenluni@furry.engineer]

@davidgerard Everyone hit report grouop, select the piracy option and write a sentence or 2 about how ai generated content is based on stolen work

[flesh@gts.fleshcraft.tech]

@Natanox @pndc @kaito02 @davidgerard Personally, I find the fact it's explicitly permitted alone to be a "avoid like the plague" project.
The fact they ban slop images is more weird than it is helpful.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@flesh @pndc @kaito02 @davidgerard Well, at least they don't permit "vibe-coding". So that's something.

Why is it weird they ban slop images and sounds? I think that's just the most fundamental baseline.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@Natanox @flesh @pndc @kaito02

> Well, at least they don't permit "vibe-coding"

what they allow is absolutely what non-vibecoders think of as vibecoding. Slop is permitted, that's the bottom line.