14 hoursI wonder if Tim Swiney realises, that his tantrum against Steam’s AI labels affects Epic Games way, way more than it affects Valve. Because… seriously, I can’t be the only one interpreting his tantrum as “customers are not to be treated as rational human beings, able to take their own decisions; those things are to be treated as cattle to be herded”. And it makes me not want to touch anything he has power over with a 3m pole.
There would be absolutely zero pushback if Steam mandated a disclosure of what game engine the game used or what modelling program the models were made with.
But suddenly it’s a huge deal when they have to disclose if they’ve used a fraud-funded plagiarism machine. Hmm, wonder why.
- Ava@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish2 days
I’d probably push back on requiring model disclosure. Tons of games use purchased assets, and a full accounting of all the relevant software in that chain seems challenging. Additionally, any user-generated content is going to be very difficult to audit for similar reasons.
Meanwhile, it seems like this would make for a relatively easy way for spiteful individuals to attack developers for “failure to accurately disclose” sorts of things.
It’s the Streisand effect. Microsoft felt it too: “Don’t call it slop” the web now calls it “Microslop”. Tim doesn’t want the disclosure to be seen, so what does the web do? Off course they develop a plugin to make the disclosure even bigger. This is how things are done in real world. Tim is a baby and does not know how reality works. :-)
- 2 days
Its not even reality. Its fucking discourse. You centered the discourse, Tim. It’s real fucking simple.
- 3 days
cant believe the guy who is placing a big emphasis on the AI integration features in Unreal Engine 6 would be upset about devs needing to disclose if they used AI or not
I never met a Tim in my life before, that is worst than this manifestation of Tim. So from my personal experience, I agree with your statement.
- 2 days
First half of the headline implies legitimate criticism. But considering Sweeney’s history, I think it would be easy to expect it to be an agenda of attacking Valve however he can.
