I’ve gotten a refund on one game so far that got outed for using AI. Even with that, it’s really easy for a dev to sweep away all AI discussion on their community forum.
Steam is doing the bare minimum in terms of AI disclosure. I guess even that is enough to make Sweeney seethe.
He’s such a useless douchebag. Shut up about steam and stop trying to slop your way to profit.
This is giving me some thoughts so I m writing them out here.
On the one hand, i can see where ai can be used as a tool in the production of games and art and writing. Especially early on in the ideation, development stage.
On the other hand, experts in those parts of production, the designers, storyboarders, writers etc. all seem to think that humans do those jobs much better than ai.
As a consumer of goods and services if i see ai in the end product i will think it’s cheap. Which for some things that makes sense. An independent writer publishing their first book with their own money might not have the funds to spare for a human to make their cover. So they use ai. An indie game designer might have a great idea, but cant write or shit, or do character designs. In that space it makes sense.
However ai taints every aspect of the project. If i3 see an ai image on a book cover, im going to assume that ai was used in the writing. If sqeenix is going to use ai on a kingdom hearts promotional image im going to assume they’re using it everywhere else in their production. if i buy their product at all im going to be looking at every inch of it to see where the human hands stopped. But I’m not going to pay premium prices for cheap ai slop.
It’s like seeing high fructose corn syrup on the label. I’d rather just buy real maple syrup.
It’s hilarious how out of touch with gamers Sweeny is.
Let’s call Tim Sweeney as “Tim Swiney”. Someone with real Photoshop skills should give him a pig nose and ears.
Fuck off with your slop, Sweeney.
Sweeney Slop, The Demented Dev of Epic
Out of touch cunt with no pulse on what gamers want whines. More at 7. Fuck off.
I hate most things people would call ‘AI’ for a variety of reasons. Hiding its usage in something just means I’m not going to trust your platform at all, not suddenly stop caring about the issue. It’s a problem steam has as well with not properly enforcing meaningful disclosure or a vetting process. Hell, the recent event didn’t even have a filter for AI so I spent no money on steam, either.
Tim, you’re just dumb. You think people don’t see right through your business-brain bullshit, and it makes you look even dumber. Sit down and shut up.
Tim should just start his own store where he can set the rules and let the market decide whether or not they like the disclosures.
If he’s right, his store would be a dominant force, and … what’s that? He’s been trying that for the better part of a decade and nobody buys anything there?
Is he only capable of saying the dumbest possible shit?
He’s using this as a wedge issue in the same way politicians do. Really does cheapen the whole thing doesn’t it?
Dividing your potential customers from your company is pants on head stupid.
Good grief, Tim Sweeney is such an insufferable cunt.
It’s too bad, I really like his early work. Jill of the Jungle, Epic Pinball, Jazz the Jackrabbit, Tyrian, all the Unreal Tournament games, Unreal Engine 1/2/3
Epic Pinball was made by the founder of Digital Extremes. He and the team he built there did a ton of Unreal through UT2003. UT2004 was the end of the partnership, with Epic handling the new design work and Digital Extremes being relegated to art, UI, and a few maps.
Tyrian and UT:GOTY were two of the greatest games to come out of the 90’s.
What a mega loser…
You might even say he’s an epic loser…
The idea of hating AI is weird because they don’t give a fuck and can have it their way with an “oopsie”. Now we have their social warriors.
Has no one sat Tim down and explained to him how much free marketing he gives Steam?
