Headlines where I have to remind myself not to downvote the OP for sharing news even when I despise the person being reported on.

He's not wrong about the main point, but I think it just means you need to be clearer about the AI disclosure. Was this AI generated images, text, or voices? Was the codebase just using small amounts of AI tab completion or substantial portions of AI generated code?

I'm not surprised. People thought he was a good guy because he sued Apple and Google, but he did it for his own profit, not for the principle. And now he wants AI slop games for his own profit, too.

Google link? What is it? Won’t click.

"Waaaahhhh! Waaaaahhhh! Why is Steam such a good service? That should be illegal! Tell them they should be worse!"

That's all I'm hearing from these other corpos.

They can skip the AI label and get down to brass tacks with a "this game sucks" label.

Go ahead and remove it Tim, I already don’t spend money on your platform and I will just continue that.

The closest I’ve come is when I bought Alan Wake 2 on my PS5.

Sweeney has Steam living rent free in his head. Whining about Monopoly

Meanwhile, Epic Games already has something resembling a monopoly with the unreal engine, its buggy and resource hungry as fuck, and just seems to be getting worse. Necessitating an arms race of computer upgrades just to run the newest games on their obtuse engine thats being used for everything now. Epic certainly isnt doing anything about it. Its just a money printer for Tim's legal battles.

How does this even make any sense? This guy is an idiot lol.

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If that actually happens and the label becomes redundant, then we can talk about removing it.

Or better, inverting it to a "No AI" label for the people like me who will still care.

Tech bros always act like this : they don't want to actually win by making a good solution. Instead they try to make you feel like their solution is inevitable and they have already won...

For a group of people who claim to be all about meritocracy and the "marketplace of ideas", they sure like to short circuit those whenever possible...

Epic Boss Tim Sweeney can go fuck himself

It does make sense, because I'll boycott nearly all future productions.

Sigh.

I swear, Epic would probably have a decent reputation (and storefront) if Sweeney would just shut his trap and delete all his social media.

Funny he thinks that, I think that Tim Sweeny should stfu.

Sounds like Epic needs to try to make a online game store to compete with Steam, but filled with AI slopware.

Fuck that. I'll delete my Epic account

I like how he's basically admitting that it's a negative that would hurt the game sales. Because consumers don't want it.

If Sweeney can read this, I just want to tell him something. As someone who made games with ZZT as a kid and thought it was the best thing ever, you need to understand that no AI could make something like that, even if as a kid using copied and 'inspired' code from other games (and learned how to hexedit out the protections from other ZZT worlds so I can see how they worked) the cycle of just working through a rudimentary coding language was the reward in and of it self even if I never did finish the game I had in mind.

BTW, that game just involved an adventurer in a kingdom that is being troubled by... Hitler's ghost, and your objective was to send his ass back to hell. I found a boss fight in another ZZT world that I thought was too cool not to reuse for that purpose, too. But sadly it was never finished.

That being said, we DO need 'AI generated' or 'AI assisted' as a tag. There isn't anything weird or wrong with that. In online art spaces like deviant art you can tag stuff as 'traditional' art (meaning done on paper/canvas with whatever media you used, like pencils, various paints, etc) or digital or a combination thereof, like a hand drawn sketch that was completed and colored with photoshop. Why the fuck would anyone be against telling people what tools were used?

Epic is on track to becoming a google play store

Valve revolutionized Linux gaming; Tim categorically rejects it.
Valve banned shitcoins and blockchain scams; Tim welcomed them with open arms.
Valve enforces honesty regarding AI slop; Tim wants to literally deceive people.
All that on top of what they did with third-party exclusives.

He's like that annoying kid who didn't get invited to a birthday party and vowed to always do the opposite of what the popular kid does. Petulant fucking overgrown child.

I don't want AI-generated assets in games at the expense of past, present, and future artists -- artists that created all the source material in the first place and had it pirated by corporations who had enough money to ignore all existing IP law globally.

If Tim Sweeney is fine with pirating other's art, he should be cool with people pirating his games.