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[mrqs]

AI witch hunting is going to get old, fast.

No one will be able to notice in 2 years at most. Today, if you know what you're doing, you can already make something visually perfect. Just a matter of time.

It's kind of fun to live something that will be so shortlived tho. Kind of special.

 

[nemiroff]

Ok? And?

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Using ai tools to manage their margins for a store front that sells drm free games.

What kind of drugs are you Salem witch hunters using?

let's raise their prices by 50% so they can spring for additional staff!

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Since I had to go looking for it, I saved the image in question so you don't have to hunt it down like I did

In a world when one font is not enough for four digits, here comes AI-generated slop, trained on equally terrible human slop. Because design thinking is hard.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Using ai tools to manage their margins for a store front that sells drm free games.

You really think you cannot find thousands and thousands of images with the same theme for 0.50€ lifetime royalty free price?

 

[MacReady13]

Who. Gives. A. FUCK? Is AI this big bad bogey man now? And anytime someone mentions AI the whole fucking world goes into a state of frenzy???

 

[StueyDuck]

Since I had to go looking for it, I saved the image in question so you don't have to hunt it down like I did

Oh no, all those potential billions and riches that an artist could of made by doing literally what the AI would have done anyway. Grab a bunch of assets online and slap em together with illustrator.

Yeah this is a non story.

 

[rkofan87]

Since I had to go looking for it, I saved the image in question so you don't have to hunt it down like I did

 

[Paasei]

 

[Cancer]

Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

I have used AI to write this confession.

 

[SenkiDala]

GOG now using AI generated images on their store

AI continues to be everywhere, and now it's appearing on the GOG store too most recently a big banner for their New Year Sale.

www.gamingonlinux.com

Is that any bad ?

 

[MidGenRefresh]

LLM slop is exactly the kind of thing that fits a platform that claims to cherish video games as art.

Right?

 

[Sakura]

How much money would it really cost to just pay some guy to draw some banners or whatever for them? The amount they'd save doesn't seem worth it for the backlash, even if the majority were ok with it.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

You really think you cannot find thousands and thousands of images with the same theme for 0.50€ lifetime royalty free price?

You really think those are not ai generated?

 

[Soodanim]

Nah, their high and mighty attitude is gone. They are not doing anything for the good of the hobby, but to make money. Fuck GOG

I don't fucking care. Fuck AI, and fuck them for using it, no matter the cope

Now now, settle down.

GOG, like most businesses, isn't a non-profit organisation nor does it have unlimited money. If this is your first time realising that, I'm sorry you had to find out like this.

 

[Bark]

Now now, settle down.

GOG, like most businesses, isn't a non-profit organisation nor does it have unlimited money. If this is your first time realising that, I'm sorry you had to find out like this.

 

[dgrdsv]

And that's completely fine.

 

[MrJangles]

Honestly, who gives a fuck

 

[Esppiral]

RIP artists.

 

[pepeno]

I always find it fascinating that people suddenly started to care about normal human slop they never cared before. Almost as if same people were previously buying their stuff and before using that stuff they were stopping themselves and admired amazing human art that is on chocholate bar with a dog and Christmas theme.

I am particularly thankful to AI that it replaced those artists time to do actually something that they can be proud of rather than human slop they were doing.

 

[BlackTron]

I still wouldn't trust a store or product that uses AI as a form of advertisement. If they are cheeping out on artists, what else are they cheaping out? Can I trust the quality of their product if they don't care about the quality of their art?

I mean, it's old games. You don't even need to count on the DRM or anticheat, because there aren't any. If I was a game studio, I wouldn't use it on my web site because it would reflect attitudes and standards that might matter because I MAKE games.

If all you do is sell games, I'm struggling to figure out how to care about this beyond pearl clutching. GOG hardly makes any money, in fact most of my games there were free codes, I don't care if the server that supplies all my old, free games has some cost cutting graphics on it.

 

[Filben]

Since I had to go looking for it, I saved the image in question so you don't have to hunt it down like I did

Man, I swear all these AI images don't make fucking sense. Who the fuck sits behind a TV? What abomination of a console is that grey mutated SNES lookalike under the TV?

 

[Team Andromeda]

AI witch hunting is going to get old, fast.

Yeah, I love it too when you see some people using AI for their Twitter, YouTube avatars only to then call out AI.

 

[Spyxos]

 

[poodaddy]

This is such a non issue it's embarrassing that it's even a topic for discussion.

Use AI as much as ya want GoG, you'll still be my favorite PC platform.

 

[poodaddy]

I still wouldn't trust a store or product that uses AI as a form of advertisement. If they are cheeping out on artists, what else are they cheaping out? Can I trust the quality of their product if they don't care about the quality of their art?

You often don't care about the quality of your threads here, consistently creating low quality threads with typos and weird titles, should we stop trusting you?

 

[mdkirby]

God it's all so tiresome. It's a freaking banner, for a sale, for a company that's not doing great financially with not great margins. What's the likely "profit" (not revenue) from this sale? Should they really be spending £500 on a little banner for it when that money could be far better spent elsewhere?

Edit, due critique is that it's pretty shitty ai work, someone needs to use better tools or get better at promoting

 

[Wolzard]

What nonsense. I would use more AI-generated images just to annoy these people.

 

[Draugoth]

You often don't care about the quality of your threads here, consistently creating low quality threads with typos and weird titles, should we stop trusting you?

You should never have trusted me

 

[TheSHEEEP]

I do get that one would not want to pay an artist to create a throwaway banner that practically nobody will even look at.

Still, AI art is just so awful most of the time (in this case the melting NES is involuntarily funny)... would have been better to just use stock art honestly, if the goal here was really to save money.

 

[Von Hugh]

Yeah, I don't really give a shit.

 

[Fbh]

I don't really care about the use of AI for stuff like this, though I still find it surprising that they don't at least bother to do something with AI that doesn't look like bottom of the barrel slop.
I'm pretty sure you can make something like this with AI without the blurry elements and the SNES melting into the able.

 

[Bodom78]

I ain't supporting them. Sure it's a trivial use of AI but that's how it always starts so it's a nope from me.

 

[BlackTron]

I ain't supporting them. Sure it's a trivial use of AI but that's how it always starts so it's a nope from me.

What next? Using AI to make the game wrappers/launchers? We have to stop it, before it gets there.

 

[Sticks]

 

[Magic Carpet]

What next? Using AI to make the game wrappers/launchers? We have to stop it, before it gets there.

Using your own computer's GPU to generate the images, based on your own library.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

I'm genuinely surprised by how many people just don't care. No wonder the world is heading in the direction it's heading.

 

[LordOcidax]

waiting for the usual "AI is bad riot"

I still don't get it.

 

[NeverYouMind]

I'm genuinely surprised by how many people just don't care. No wonder the world is heading in the direction it's heading.

I care and I hate this trend but I am not willing to cut off the nose to spite the face. Just yesterday I bought $50 worth of games from them (because I like having games without a launcher or DRM imbedded) and I intend to buy City of the Wolves Season 2 DLC when Geese drops despite similar grievances.

 

[Guilty_AI]

I'm genuinely surprised by how many people just don't care. No wonder the world is heading in the direction it's heading.

No one aside from a bunch of twitter and reddit users care about gen AI use unless it truly stands out in bad ways.

In this case, its a dumb banner where the average joe seeing it would think about it for .1 seconds before scrolling to see the discounts.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

No one aside from a bunch of twitter and reddit users care about gen AI use unless it truly stands out in bad ways.

In this case, its a dumb banner where the average joe seeing it would think about it for .1 seconds before scrolling to see the discounts.

I'm not a Twitter or Reddit user, but I do care. Of course you can't treat all companies equally. If I see a local mom and pop business using generative "AI" to create a few images, that's fine. They have limited to zero resources for this kind of thing.

But large corporations, especially those in any way connected to art, get zero pass from me.

Seems I'm in the minority though, lol.

 

[crackajack]

Agreed, everything should be hand illustrated, fuck digital tools.

LOL

True artists use rocks in a cave as their canvas!

 

[TheSHEEEP]

True artists use rocks in a cave as their canvas!

And only their blood and sweat as paint.
(other bodily fluids were banned after the incident)

 

[seb85]

It's just an image , people sure are dumb and dramatic about everything

 

[LiquidMetal14]

How is this offensive again?

 

[SScorpio]

If you physically cannot afford expensive professional services you make due with what's available. There's zero point in going into debt to appease a bunch of entitled theater kids who can't adapt to rapidly changing industries.

I'm with you that slop sucks but this line "but this isn't the way to do it." makes fuckall sense.

I always imagine this is now the smug theater kids who were telling coal miners to "learn to code" now.

 

[bighugeguns]

I always imagine this is now the smug theater kids who were telling coal miners to "learn to code" now.

The dude I was replying to had a point though, it's obviously better to have a person handle it, even a cheap one, but if you literally do not have a cent budget to spare, you make due, what the hell else are they supposed to do, that was my point. It's admittedly a pretty grim little banner, lol.

 

[SScorpio]

The dude I was replying to had a point though, it's obviously better to have a person handle it, even a cheap one, but if you literally do not have a cent budget to spare, you make due, what the hell else are they supposed to do, that was my point. It's admittedly a pretty grim little banner, lol.

If GOG is putting all their available resources to converting and supporting the games, then that's money well spent.

Many smart developers are at stick figure level of artistic ability. Being able to spit out a quick graphic to put on the site can be huge savings. Most people say a human gives a better touch, but how much original content do they need throughout the year to have a resource that does specifically that? There are people who handle graphics there for the store pages, but those are mostly screenshots. Formatting those and creating new content are very different skill sets.

The main issue is any AI use immediately means slop to people. If it's well done, then great. They have already been tools that let you take normal art or even vector and attach it to skeletons to create animation cycles. That historically is a lot of work for an animator, creating 15 to 24 images per second of animation. Now you can create and easily reuse animation cycles.

As with any new technology, people push back. But when you allow new technologies you can simplify production. The 2024 animated film Flow had an extremely small team, and integrated game engine logic in production to easily layout scenes and avoid the need for story boards. It let the producer see how the camera moved through the rough scenes in real time and make tweaks to the environments and characters without needing to wait for a complex render.

In a few years people will have these new tools integrated into their workflows, and creatives will be able to do solo or small team projects that rival what hundreds of people are needed for today. Some people will scream job loss. I see it as potentially getting more unique things created, and people in the industry will look back at the bad old days of needing to do all that busy work.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[mdkirby]

I'm noticing a really sad irony with the reality of the "anti ai hate brigade", in that it's effectively in how it plays out, "anti the little guy" and pro corporatist.

Ai is a tool that can significantly uplift small companies and creators, allowing them to more equitably compete with the big boys/billion dollar corps, and allow them to save money and punch above their weight. My own company does this, and ai is invaluable, it has allowed us to pursue projects that we would have never greenlit otherwise, and expand our team.

Small companies are far more vulnerable to the hate brigades than large ones, but the incentives for them to use the tools are far larger.

GOG is not wealthy, doesn't have big margins, is competing with steam, one of the most profitable companies on the planet.

If for example, this January sale will net steam $10 mil in profits.
But will net GOG $50k in profits (prob very generous).
An illustration such as they used would be about $500, that's 1% of their entire profits gone, for steam it's tiny fractions of that. Meaning their extreme wealth/profits makes hiring a person for it an insignificant cost, but it's an actual cost for gog. Now expand out to a smaller sale or a smaller company, and that $500 could easily be 10%, 20% or more. But that same company is of a size where anti ai brigading could cause significant measurable harm to them. So they are forced to either take that risk, or weaken their already limited competitiveness, where their larger competitors can get away with using the tools due to their market position and thus broaden enhance their dominant position.

Anyhow…shower thoughts at 9am