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POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@ttrpg.network to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Oh dear. Goonswarm Games are shutting down after Running With Scissors cancelled POSTAL: Bullet Paradise due to the use of generative AI. It's a bit of a saga this one.

I covered the initial announcement, along with a follow-up update in there where Running With Scissors attempted to defend the developer. The backlash only continued, and eventually RWS cancelled it as per the statement GamingOnLinux was sent on December 5th via Vince Desi, founder of Running With Scissors

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

I was responding to your comment about consumers not being able to tell if Generative AI has been used. I can't tell the difference between battery farmed eggs and free range ones, but I still avoid eggs that aren't free range. That doesn't seem like I've lost track of the point, to me.

I then expanded what I was saying, by explaining that I don't agree with battery farming, which is why I avoid eggs produced that way, despite not being able to actually tell if an egg is free range or battery farmed. This relates to the point about Generative AI use because I also don't agree with using Generative AI in art and media, and might or might not be able to tell if it's used.

To respond to your latest comment about my actions and beliefs being irrelevant because my not supporting something I disagree with won't stop it happening; you're right. Hens are still battery farmed. As much as I wish it wouldn't happen, it does. Does that make me sticking by my own morals and feelings futile or irrelevant? I don't think so.

As for the objections I have with Generative AI, there are a few: I think it's inauthentic. I want to experience art that was made with intention. I want to see what people are capable of making, and how people tell stories. We're a storytelling species, I think it's really important for us. I feel like I've been lied to when art is generated by an unthinking machine and then presented as though it was made by a human.

For me, art is a connection between me and the artist. If somebody writes a sad song, and plays it, then I get to experience and understand their feelings in that moment. It's a communication. I feel something, and they've given that to me. If a chatbot did it... Well nobody communicated anything. It's a lie. It basically catfished my emotions.

There are other objections, too; the plagiarism of actual human work without recompense. The fact that these chatbots are making people mentally unstable, the fact that these chatbots only exist to enrich the already wealthy. The fact that all of this is being sold to us as some way to remove effort from our lives, even the fun parts of our lives. I think effort and hard work are their own reward a lot of the time, and I hate to see laziness championed because it leads to uninteresting and lame shit.

Sorry, that was a long one, and I'll cut it off here before it gets any longer 😂