a list of games, developers and studios to boycott.

[turgemanvt@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Blacklisting a dev should be a feature...

[kayohtie@blimps.xyz]

@davidgerard wtf these look like game titles and thumbs you'd expect to see in a meme specifically mocking asset-theft garbage just out here actually doing it anyway

Edit: thinking more, like especially things like "pick me, pick me". I have no idea if the game is meant to parody anime waifu CYOA graphic novel games but it showing up in a meme absolutely would be

[chx@chx.contact]

@davidgerard meanwhile Mark Roberts from Grinding Gear Games: "But I’m just like, from my understanding, and it mostly comes from us trying to recruit people, my understanding is we’re already working multitudes faster than every other company under the sun. Almost. So why should we go and adopt technologies that would slow you down?"

https://outputlag.com/feature/diving-deep-into-path-of-exile-curse-of-the-allflame-with-grinding-gear-games/

[giordanoscarso@mstdn.io]

@davidgerard But why is Bad Rats from 2009 in the festival? xD
https://store.steampowered.com/app/34900/Bad_Rats_the_Rats_Revenge/

[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]

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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.