Rideshare Stimulator has finally gotten a genAI disclosure on Steam after a furore, with Saber's CEO insisting that it's "swim or die" with genAI at large.
    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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      7 days ago

      They’ve said they’re working on an “infinite” slop mode where the conversations are AI-generated.

      They used to have no AI disclosure, and people had to learn about them using AI through that disgruntled writer’s story.

      So now given the very mature CEO answer, I’m assuming they’re butthurt that some people want to know about their AI use, and they’re using the disclosure to claim that part of their game is not AI instead.

      Also your comment made me briefly wonder why someone got Weird Al’s comment on the subject, and it was a bit funny.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Yes Weird Al Yankovic is now commenting on AI in computer games? 🤣
        I hate stupid fonts where different letters look identical, but I can’t seem to get rid of them!? 😡

        That CEO seems very shady IMO, I read his response previously, and it was just so obviously off. I think he is genuinely a sociopath with an inability to interact with people in a normal way, because he simply can’t tell the difference.
        I also notice you call him “very mature”, so I think you may have had a similar vibe.

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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      7 days ago

      maybe because it’s not true, at least if what the ex-head writer said on bsky is to be believed.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        It reeks of dishonesty. Very clearly they used AI, just not VERY SPECIFICALLY for the thing they were accused of firing a person over?

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      6 days ago

      The questionnaire first asks you if AI was used yes/no, and if you say yes it then asks you to describe in detail how and for what, and for many devs the first thing to do is to try to highlight all the important parts that it wasn’t.

    • RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I would give this kind-of-opposite answer, if otherwise my answer would be far, far longer.

      If someone asks which ice cream flavours you like and you can just say “Raspberry I don’t like, that’s it”, no need to go through hundreds of options.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Because it’s more hilarious dontyouknow. :|

      If that’s an indicator of the level of ‘humour’ in this game, I already know not to buy it.

  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Glad I blocked them on Steam. The odds of me actually buying one of their games anyway was fairly low until a couple of days ago. Now it’s zero.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I read the article just to confirm this wasn’t a The Onion article. I understand there are games that simulate work like farming and even powerwashing. Even though I don’t play those, I can mildly see the appeal as you’re creating something (farming) or making something better than it was before (powerwashing). However, I see zero appeal for a game that simulates gig work like ridesharing. Can someone explain it to me, or have I reach a pivotal “too old” moment in my life?

    • _NetNomad@fedia.io
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      6 days ago

      there’s a certain poetry to someone making an uncritical game about a technology meant to cheat drivers out of a fair wage using a technology meant to cheat other disciplines out of a fair wage. the venn diagram of people who would make a game about this and make a game with AI is probably just a circle

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Euro truck simulator is the closest game I’ve played in that genre. Sometimes I just want to do something with my hands and turn my brain off for a while, and playing a “boring” game is pretty good for that. Think of it like watching re-runs of familiar shows. Sometimes I play House Flipper as well, literally just painting walls and mowing the lawn lol

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Love ETS2, but if you’re not playing it in VR, you’re missing about 50% of the game. I spend most of my time rubbernecking at the scenery. It’s so pretty.

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I’m hoping to get a VR set at some point, but I’ve heard it’s difficult to get working on Linux so I’ve been putting it off. Maybe once the steam frame exists. I looked at the Valve index but it currently costs $4,000 in my country which is insane lol