https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/
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also, it’s important to point this out: Bevy went from an apparently anti-AI but in practice centrist policy to a policy that’s being presented as centrist but is in practice extremely pro-AI
if you wanted a worked example of why centrist AI policies are horrible, this is it
please keep this article in your back pocket for the next project that does a Bevy or a Debian and starts making broad gestures towards a supposedly centrist AI policy
it may or may not be too late for Bevy under its current leadership and community, but for any project that’s not too far gone, this article is a very effective warning of things to come
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@zzt I was once accused by an LLM bro for using the term "tainted" because it was evoking christian puritan language and I was being just like them and it's so sad I don't realize it while pretending to be a progressive
@witchgirls
Good fucking God(Here I am much like the worshippers of Zeus, presumably. He did a lot of that.)
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@witchgirls holy fuck
as if a bunch of us haven’t been forced to use this garbage (the supposedly best version of it!) under threat of being fired
@zzt Surely it wasn't a "frontier model", or you were prompting it wrong, or you were predisposed to not see how amazing it is because of it being forced on you, or you're just a silly luddite, or it actually didn't work for you but that doesn't matter because it does for me so whatever.
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@zzt Seriously this post literally just tries to "look the first shot is free see for yourself" you
@witchgirls It reads like a drug pusher at the school gates.
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@witchgirls
Good fucking God(Here I am much like the worshippers of Zeus, presumably. He did a lot of that.)
@zzt@ozzelot @witchgirls @zzt very broad experience in that field, maybe the best generalist out there
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@zzt It was fated to happen after one of the main developers made a super mega long post talking about how yes LLMs are bad but they're innevitable and you can't resist them so just use them and hope the governments regulate them in time I can buy you some claude tokens if you ask nicely
@witchgirls wtf are claude tokens Lol
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@witchgirls @zzt If something is inevitable, no one needs to proselytize for it. No one needs to spread the good word about gravity, it just pulls things together. It's there with no one defending it.
LLMs are not a force of physics, and they are 100% evitable.
@howtophil @witchgirls @zzt mhm many such examples --
if digital games or streaming are "the future" you wouldn't need to force them onto us, and constantly tell us it is, if capitalism was human nature you don't need to enforce it, if gender cant change you dont need to ban it, if gender roles are the natural state of things- you dont need to segregate, etc.
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@zzt Surely it wasn't a "frontier model", or you were prompting it wrong, or you were predisposed to not see how amazing it is because of it being forced on you, or you're just a silly luddite, or it actually didn't work for you but that doesn't matter because it does for me so whatever.
@witchgirls @zzt I mean we learned about this in anti-drug awareness week.
FOMO: "They don't want you to know this, but you can do stuff with PDFs with this one weird trick."
Intimidation: "Buy ChatGPT tokens, or I will kidnap and starve your dog."
Dominance: "You will use the chatbot, if I see you doing stuff yourself, you will face me."
Bargaining: "I can quit when I want to. Here, how about this... You write a prompt to help me for class, and I'll stop after I turn it in."
Hazing: "If you don't write a prompt, you're not getting your pants back. Use AI or walk home in tighty whiteys."
Bandwagon: "We're all using it, and we're perfectly fine."
Sex Appeal: "Hot guys are prompt engineers. Help me, prompt daddy!"
(I can't believe I just wrote that... prompt daddy. FML.)
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@howtophil @witchgirls @zzt mhm many such examples --
if digital games or streaming are "the future" you wouldn't need to force them onto us, and constantly tell us it is, if capitalism was human nature you don't need to enforce it, if gender cant change you dont need to ban it, if gender roles are the natural state of things- you dont need to segregate, etc.
@Li @witchgirls @zzt Eyup
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@zzt Seriously this post literally just tries to "look the first shot is free see for yourself" you
@witchgirls @zzt From that linked post
> In brief: AI risks terrible harm to the world. And yet we cannot uninvent it, we cannot boycott it out of existence, we can barely regulate it in any way that matters
on good it’s yet another take from an american only used to inept and neutered regulation
these fucking people have no idea what a world (“US”) without reagan/bork political damage looks like and it shows
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@witchgirls @zzt From that linked post
> In brief: AI risks terrible harm to the world. And yet we cannot uninvent it, we cannot boycott it out of existence, we can barely regulate it in any way that matters
on good it’s yet another take from an american only used to inept and neutered regulation
these fucking people have no idea what a world (“US”) without reagan/bork political damage looks like and it shows
@froztbyte @witchgirls @zzt Now I might be nieve , but my recollections of SF AGI take overs suggests they needed plot devices to prevent someone turning iff the Electricity, so AGI tries to take over, just pull the plug, OK.
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@witchgirls @zzt From that linked post
> In brief: AI risks terrible harm to the world. And yet we cannot uninvent it, we cannot boycott it out of existence, we can barely regulate it in any way that matters
on good it’s yet another take from an american only used to inept and neutered regulation
these fucking people have no idea what a world (“US”) without reagan/bork political damage looks like and it shows
@witchgirls @zzt the other funny bit is that I don’t have to spend that $20
I don’t have to spend it because I’ve been reviewing the code of people who’ve spent far more than that on it
and oh boy does it fucking suck
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@witchgirls @zzt From that linked post
> In brief: AI risks terrible harm to the world. And yet we cannot uninvent it, we cannot boycott it out of existence, we can barely regulate it in any way that matters
on good it’s yet another take from an american only used to inept and neutered regulation
these fucking people have no idea what a world (“US”) without reagan/bork political damage looks like and it shows
@froztbyte @witchgirls in a world where we banned leaded gas (far too late mind you) and vast swaths of useful but harmful drugs (and not just the recreational ones) and doping in organized sports, surely AI is untouchable
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@froztbyte @witchgirls @zzt Now I might be nieve , but my recollections of SF AGI take overs suggests they needed plot devices to prevent someone turning iff the Electricity, so AGI tries to take over, just pull the plug, OK.
@aadeacon @froztbyte @witchgirls @zzt simply do not allow a gigajoule of methane to flow into the simple cycle gas turbines every second
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@froztbyte @witchgirls in a world where we banned leaded gas (far too late mind you) and vast swaths of useful but harmful drugs (and not just the recreational ones) and doping in organized sports, surely AI is untouchable
@zzt @froztbyte @witchgirls look i would love to see chlorofluorocarbons regulated but they're the future, nothing to be done
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@witchgirls @zzt I mean we learned about this in anti-drug awareness week.
FOMO: "They don't want you to know this, but you can do stuff with PDFs with this one weird trick."
Intimidation: "Buy ChatGPT tokens, or I will kidnap and starve your dog."
Dominance: "You will use the chatbot, if I see you doing stuff yourself, you will face me."
Bargaining: "I can quit when I want to. Here, how about this... You write a prompt to help me for class, and I'll stop after I turn it in."
Hazing: "If you don't write a prompt, you're not getting your pants back. Use AI or walk home in tighty whiteys."
Bandwagon: "We're all using it, and we're perfectly fine."
Sex Appeal: "Hot guys are prompt engineers. Help me, prompt daddy!"
(I can't believe I just wrote that... prompt daddy. FML.)
@witchgirls @zzt To quote Mike Nelson from MST3K, "I can't tell if this is sexy or stupid."
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@witchgirls @zzt From that linked post
> In brief: AI risks terrible harm to the world. And yet we cannot uninvent it, we cannot boycott it out of existence, we can barely regulate it in any way that matters
on good it’s yet another take from an american only used to inept and neutered regulation
these fucking people have no idea what a world (“US”) without reagan/bork political damage looks like and it shows
@froztbyte @witchgirls @zzt AI would be notably less of a problem if they weren't actively getting support from the government.
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https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/
this is an extremely important read, even if you don’t care about the Rust game engine Bevy.
anti-AI policies are broadly popular, and pro-AI policies destroy communities. this article is an excellent summary of a project going from an apparent (but not actual) anti-AI stance to a pro-AI one, on the false pretenses that AI boosters were subject to harassment and witch hunts. those false pretenses are already common, and you’re going to see them a lot more soon because this is a playbook.
@zzt People trampling over each other's expertise has been the #1 constant every time LLMs and game dev are mentionned. Someone will loudly declare "Oh, we could use the bot to do X" and I'm not sure they even realise there's someone in the room for who X is their expertise and how violent of a statement that is toward them.
If mounting bugs and burn out don't destroy your game, social corrrosion between different jobs will. -
@zzt People trampling over each other's expertise has been the #1 constant every time LLMs and game dev are mentionned. Someone will loudly declare "Oh, we could use the bot to do X" and I'm not sure they even realise there's someone in the room for who X is their expertise and how violent of a statement that is toward them.
If mounting bugs and burn out don't destroy your game, social corrrosion between different jobs will.@zzt really good essay about the whole "just the code" thing. https://lia-sae.net/articles/2026/02/code-is-a-wedge.html
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https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/
this is an extremely important read, even if you don’t care about the Rust game engine Bevy.
anti-AI policies are broadly popular, and pro-AI policies destroy communities. this article is an excellent summary of a project going from an apparent (but not actual) anti-AI stance to a pro-AI one, on the false pretenses that AI boosters were subject to harassment and witch hunts. those false pretenses are already common, and you’re going to see them a lot more soon because this is a playbook.
I hate the "unenforceability" defence slopists use against these policies. At work we were pushed away from using the "absolutely no AI" category for assessments, for exactly this reason
Yes, all crimes are essentially unenforceable if the criminal is not caught! The answer is obviously not to legalise all crimes. (And besides, most of the time it is blatantly obvious when someone has used it)
The point of a policy is really to outline a set of expectation and a group ethos. If someone chooses to deliberately break the policy, they must be conscious of the fact that they do not align with the group and should probably fuck off
