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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
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Great way to torpedo any trust people might’ve had in your project.
It is kind of hilarious that this is actually the issue here. Sure, using AI for coding can be problematic. But then going back and removing any reference to it just to fuck with people even more. Damn.
While I hate AI as much as the next guy. It's also entirely true that people are attacking and harassing people for using making them a worse problem.
I'm entirely down for fucking with the dipshits who can't help themselves but be massive twats.
If your going to have a shit show might as well make it a good one.
I think it's hilarious how much it's bothering you guys
CAREFUL! That's borderline troll thinking.
Oh you don't like to know when we put shit in your food so you can scrutinize it? Fine we'll just not tell you.
Congratz now ALL of it contains shit.
Schrodinger’s Backdoor
All jokes aside, Windows (pre ai) was filled with backdoors now. Still is, probably has more, but it never stopped them in the past.
"Haha now you won't know what is or isn't slop!!"
"But then we'll just assume it's all slop..."
"...D'oh!!!"
They'd assume that anyway. The self-proclaimed haters have a one-drop rule.
That's why this author didn't exactly announce it - they were trying to dodge a harassment campaign.
Then they don't read very much. They streisand effected themselves.
Update: The attributions are back.
https://github.com/lutris/lutris/discussions/6530#discussioncomment-16107836
Yeah, nah. Damage has been done already.
He should've stuck with his guns and said "the Claude code stays".
He did. You may have misunderstood.
I mean he should have simply stated "the Claude code stays", instead of hiding which were the Claude commits.
I think you mean Claude cope.
They are making the point that you won't be able to tell the difference. & It's a salient one.
Doesn't give much confidence in their coding abilities then.
Okay. I guess you want the volunteer open source dev to write everything by hand from scratch so it will pass your high standards. That's on you, honestly.
Ahh yes, how dare a community run and funded project have community accountability.
The project has several ways of being community funded.
Accountability for what!? You people have lost your minds.
Ah yes, if anyone is against AI, because of its problems, then we've all lost our minds.
Are YOU the dev in question, or do you just have an unreasonably huge boner for AI?
I happen to agree w the developer that peoples' problem w AI is actually a problem w Capitalism
the solution isn't to lie down in defeat. its boycott.
You sound even more like the dev in question. To quote an excerpt from his post:
Well, you are making up head cannon. Check my profile, there's a Pixelfed link. I'm an artist not an engineer.
I'm just telling you what you sound like. I checked your profile, gotta love the ~~number of~~ submission~~s~~ that have characters that have one too many fingers. You are about as much as an artist as me walking down the street and paying an actual street artist to tell him what he should draw, except you aren't even paying a struggling street artist...? (well, you know if you are or aren't, anyway)
HA! Are you accusing my work of being AI? That's fucking hilarious
Look, as annoying as this guy is, I am pretty sure he drew these himself. I think I am usually pretty good at spotting AI and his profile doesn't raise any flags for me. Of course I could be wrong, but just by the fact that these are often photographed pieces of paper makes me think it's real.
Ofc I did these people are rabid weirdos, it's alright.
Maybe you are right, it really was only one submission I found suspect, and it could be due to style, but AI is also increasingly difficult to discern. The paper says nothing, that's just a border style:
Regardless, I'm still just describing what he sounds like, and sounding like that is what made me suspicious enough to try to check his other claims. Not sure why someone who is an artist would try to defend hiding AI usage, given they are being much more targeted and affected by generative AI.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter, he knows if he drew it or not and my deeply nested comment will be lost to time, but I would be sus of not just him, but any "artist" that sounds like they are excessively defending generative AI use. Edited my original comment somewhat tho.
Omg this shit is ludicrous. Are you baby brained?
I don't use pencils to draft my work (penciling). I do this intentionally b/c I am a trained printmaker & back in the day (think sixteenth century) when making intaglio prints (that means on copper plates), there was no way to erase so they etched balls-to -the-wall style, mistakes & all.
I spent a long time learning to create line art w/o using pencil b/c I wanted to create that same weird, not-quite-right look that intaglio prints have.
I'm not sure why I'm bothering explaining myself b/c I am not in the habit of doing so but, goddamn, get a fucking hobby then maybe you won't feel so threatened by AI.
Honestly, I don't care, it looks like shit to me. I was just telling you what your argument sounded like, and showing how much more sus I am of artists who defend AI. Lots of words, but you've just joined the ranks of the people selling themselves as artists who are just selling printed AI slop.
So, you're a simpleton. Noted.
thats not nice. also, capitalism is the problem.
Capitalism is A problem, and a big one, but "AI" has a slew of problems unique to it. Furthermore, I didn't come here to be nice.
well, maybe you should be nice.
No.
kinda weird but ok
Try actually having open communication. Your as much as fault as that guy.
Your clearly here with a made up mind and no room for discussion or nuance. Thus you don't deserve anyone's kindness.
That guy is just here to be an asshole.
You basically have a sign on your head saying "be an asshole to me or don't talk to me".
When the only room for discussion is hostile don't be surprised when you get the assholes talking to you.
deserve is an ugly word
Yes, that is what we want. Or at least everything past boilerplate templates.
Thats like…exactly how its been done up to this point???
Even if that were true, which it isn't, there are plenty of other reasons to scrutinize any use of "generative" AI.
Like...?
Like that it produces hallucinated bullshit and anyone can see that with any given 2-3 Google searches now. It's literally impossible to miss that if you use the Internet now.
I'm not a fanboi of AI, but also not all AI is equally capable. You can be upset for ethical reasons, you can dislike some things it produces for style reasons, and yes it does sometimes produce code that feels like it should work, even though it doesn't. All of these things are true.
But also Claude doing coding is very different than the AI answers on Google searches, and even those are much better than a cherry-picked highlight reel of bad results on a blog post.
Again, you don't have to like AI or agree with its use, but claiming the code Claude produces is fully bullshit because some customer support chatbot does a bad job is just being misinformed. You should at least know your enemy and its capabilities.
You took that way too literally