Comment on Indie Arcade Gallery Shooter - Nova Swarm (Steam)
TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub 4 days agoYeah, I was posting with a screenshot, but I guess that gets replaced with whatever it pulls from the link, and as cute as that cover is bigger, makes sense it’s more prone to catching such knee-jerk reactions than seeing the actual game.
They probably used AI coding it, too, and as a programmer I can be glad a lone dev used their tools to create something they want/enjoy, in a niche no one touches, and at a price that’ll never make them any real money. This is a benefit of AI. The alternative is simply this game not existing. Thought people over here might be more amenable to such a micro-niche indie project. Ah well, so it goes.
psyq@piefed.social 3 days ago
I can’t speak for everyone who downvoted, but maybe allow me to share a viewpoint.
Some see the use of generative AI as simply stealing other people’s hard-earned craft and talent (for the generated art) and programming skills, without even so much as credit or visibility. Plus setting the planet on fire for it, using up precious non-renewable resources, draining aquifers, endangering jobs etc. while making billionaires richer and more powerful and taking away the means of production from the common folk. Who will have to pay the powerful for compute time because they’ve deskilled so much they can’t put together a gallery shooter game themselves anymore.
Not trying to troll or flame or anything, but what’s a good tool for some is all those bad things for others. That’s why any use of it gets such a negative reaction, especially in the fediverse.
TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub 2 days ago
I’m just glad when some bring good things to occasionally seep out of these obviously inevitable changes.
psyq@piefed.social 1 day ago
I’m guilty too and I let (mostly local or hydro/solar-powered) LLMs write utility scripts for me, but I’m fully aware of the illegal way they’ve been put together and I wouldn’t use them to make a product I sell, that would feel unethical.
I hope one day someone makes a model that is trained on e.g. only GPL, MIT or BSD-licensed code that gives full attribution to the generated output, and one that uses only Creative Commons art that is cleared for remixing, for example. It’s not that these things aren’t available, just that the commercial incentive (those billionaires, eh) is stronger to simply steal everything and ignore any licensing or laws.
All this can be done ethically and with small environmental impact, the fact that they choose not to do it in order to chase power and profit is the most offensive part.