I saw yet another flaming wreck in a gaming forum this week. Somebody had posted something about creating a new work while using AI. It was supposed OK because the AI didn’t produce any final text or anything, so, ya know, supporting AI development is thus OK.

<sigh>

No, folks, it’s not. The development of AI llms to date has not been ethically done, so all AI llms are tainted by capitalist evil. It doesn’t matter how you use it, you’re supporting and enabling that evil to continue. A vast majority of gaming hobbyists, it appears, find that to be abhorrent. Expect to be ignored by most once your support of evil is known.

I’ve already got the icons to proclaim that my stuff is all human-made. I think there should be more of an effort to promote such identification, as it may spur some who otherwise wouldn’t even think about the moral aspects of using AI to reconsider. I also expect higher quality products to result, as AI is not known for producting high quality creative results.

I also have to wonder about the producers of such stuff. It’s not a rational decision. To wit, the audience for AI-infested material is much smaller than that for human-produced material. The audience for human-produced material also includes those who would be OK with AI-produced material, as there seems to be a distinct lack of people who only look for AI work. Any producer choosing to use AI is deliberately choosing to have a smaller audience–why is that?