OK, that’s reasonable. My mind tends to go for edge cases. Thanks for clarifying.

Nice idea. I have some questions.

Suppose an old game is released for a modern system. The game itself predates genAI and is untouched, but the bundled emulator contains generated code. Would this constitute a game containing slop?

If the answer to the above is “no”, what about the case where the publisher only distributes a binary blob from which the original game can’t be extracted?

Also, if a game is made with an LLM, but the generated stuff is subsequently cut out and replaced with handcrafted data, would you still consider it to have slop?

Finally, what would be the status of a came where all code, art, and music is handmade, but the devs employ LLMs to find bugs?

If you think Lemmy hates AI, don’t look at mbin or Piefed.

But by all means check out HackerNews. Stay there if you like.

I tried installing NetBSD yesterday and it defeated me. Wifi seems to have been the issue. Installing BSD is what Windows people think installing Linux is like.

Please do not construe this post as impugning on the skill or morality of BSD developers. BSD gets way less funding and resources than Linux so their devs can’t cover everything. I’d like to try again some time, but maybe try practicing with a virtual machine before I do it for real.

What happened to Linus? He used to be cool.

It’s a gold rush and nVidia are selling shovels.

That’s not what emulation is. Emulators imitate hardware. WINE receives Windows system cells and returns the appropriate responses.

Nope. They’re Dr. Sprinkle

Richard Dawkins: Men have penises and make sperm, women have wombs and make ova. That is objective truth. If you lack a vagina you cannot be referred to as she/her, and if you lack a penis you cannot be referred to as he/him.\ Also Richard Dawkins: This network of silicon and fibre optic cables running a fractal Markov chain is clearly a woman who one should obviously refer to as she/her.

(Paraphrasing a quip by @2something@transfem.social)

I’m a line worker in a factory, and I recently managed to give a presentation on “AI” to a group of office workers (it went well!). One of the people there is in regular contact with the C_Os but fortunately is pretty reasonable. His attitude is “We have this problem; what tools do we have to fix it”, and so isn’t impressed by " AI" yet. The C_Os, alas, insist it’s the future. They keep hammering on at him to get everybody to integrate “AI” in their workflows, but they have no idea how to actually do that (let alone what the factory actually does), they just say “We have this tool, use it somehow”.

The reasonable manager asked me how I would respond if a C_O said we would get left behind if we don’t embrace " AI". I quipped that it’s fine to be left behind when everybody else is running towards a cliff. I was pretty proud of that one.