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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have to agree with that statement. Any AI slop being made nowadays should not be made, and that includes even the AAA slop we see today using it.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

i just though Steam could take out twitch by just having a streaming section for Steam users

twitch and kick would just be left with the cesspool irl/chat/hot tub streams

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also and I hate to say it, a lot of indie titles are shit.

Like yes I cant do it, yes its a big achievement for an amateur, massive respect for having a go but... Bruh this just isnt very good.

[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Agreed.
I know it's lemmy and love to blindly praise indies... But a lot of indies just look like somone's school project or are plain ugly, people say the gameplay is fucking great but they are honestly mid at best.

Like Schedule 1, Peak or Mega Bonk, like sure the potential is there but it just feels like it was never meant to be a full game and the graphics are... Not there.

Also a lot of indies with the edgy style like a Newgrounds animation from it's early days, just plain grotesque and that is all they got going.

Not just a lot of indies, a lot of games in general. The only difference between a shitty indie game and a shitty big game is the marketing money that makes you belive the game is good even though it's shit.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not all AI output is slop and not all slop is AI output.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All AI output is slop unless you can prove it's not made on stolen content and it's not eating an insane amount of electricity and water to be made.

I agree tho, not all slop is AI, but I never said so.

I believe we have different definitions of slop. Slop isn't the input to me but the output. You can get all the best ingredients to make a pie but if you mix it wrong, you get slop. Same goes for low quality input being moulded into a gem.

AI doesn't always output slop.

And if you're focusing on input, then all your electronics are slop. It's almost guaranteed that child labor and exploitation was involved in collecting the resources required to build it. Your chocolate is most likely slop tooby your logic - if you bought any big brand or no name chocolate, child labor was almost certainly involved. And those children were likely also sold by their parents. There are also US products made from slaves (they call them prisoners, but is it really OK to lock somebody up for stealing a cookie and forcing them to work 8 hour days for cents per hour?) and in China Uyghurs are also forced to work unpaid. If you drink tea or coffee, boy is that all slop. The amount of land that ceded place to the large tea plantations (and let's not get started on products with palm oil) and underpaid, overworked workers (mostly women BTW) are almost guaranteed to make that tea or coffee = slop.