Dan Castro
@dancastro.bsky.social
Civil engineer. Freelance writer and translator of all things related to videogames and media.
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Ginny Di makes an excellent underrepresented point here in that the secondary damage caused by AI is that so many artists have to defend our own work as organic now. I had to put out a statement that BLACK PHONE 2 contained no AI because assholes decided to accuse us of using it and no other reason.
I love paying human artists and I hate gen AI 🩵
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
I'm not here to fight about whether or not AI is ethical (I've made my decision and I doubt I'm gonna change yours.) I'm just here to talk about what I and many other artists have been dealing with as we adjust to a new media landscape.
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ginny Di makes an excellent underrepresented point here in that the secondary damage caused by AI is that so many artists have to defend our own work as organic now. I had to put out a statement that BLACK PHONE 2 contained no AI because assholes decided to accuse us of using it and no other reason.
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HUGE NEWS: Today we're launching a pack of 10,000 game assets! All existing Chequered Ink Assets + hundreds exclusive to the pack, across a variety of genres for commercial use in all your projects. AND they're all made by HUMANS 🫨 ci.itch.io/all-game-ass... #gamedev #indiedev
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
HUGE NEWS: Today we're launching a pack of 10,000 game assets! All existing Chequered Ink Assets + hundreds exclusive to the pack, across a variety of genres for commercial use in all your projects. AND they're all made by HUMANS 🫨 ci.itch.io/all-game-ass... #gamedev #indiedev
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Forbes publishing articles about how shite Generative AI is sure seems like a bubble indicator to me...
#FizzVsGaming #FizzVsComics
#FizzVsGaming #FizzVsComics
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Forbes publishing articles about how shite Generative AI is sure seems like a bubble indicator to me...
#FizzVsGaming #FizzVsComics
#FizzVsGaming #FizzVsComics
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This was well done and also what I’ve been saying for years, glad to see more people on it
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This was well done and also what I’ve been saying for years, glad to see more people on it
Apparently there have been a few people interested seeing me suffer playing this game...so here it goes. Challenge at 200 points!
Final playthrough of Scryption (Kaycee's MOD) challenge at 175 points.
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Apparently there have been a few people interested seeing me suffer playing this game...so here it goes. Challenge at 200 points!
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Final playthrough of Scryption (Kaycee's MOD) challenge at 175 points.
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Final playthrough of Scryption (Kaycee's MOD) challenge at 175 points.
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
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“And also you’re going to tell your family about this new novel you’re working on and when they ask if you wrote it you’re going to break down and start sobbing into the green bean casserole”
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“And also you’re going to tell your family about this new novel you’re working on and when they ask if you wrote it you’re going to break down and start sobbing into the green bean casserole”
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you buy new phone you buy WHY You noT BUY PHONE Feed MOnEY to markets NOW buy PHONE
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
you buy new phone you buy WHY You noT BUY PHONE Feed MOnEY to markets NOW buy PHONE
We used to make fun of this quote in the 90s because it was fun to think that "experts" would think that the only way to get more computer power was to acquire larger and larger state to place processing power.
It's the same move made by tech companies today: more real state to house their dumb AIs
It's the same move made by tech companies today: more real state to house their dumb AIs
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We used to make fun of this quote in the 90s because it was fun to think that "experts" would think that the only way to get more computer power was to acquire larger and larger state to place processing power.
It's the same move made by tech companies today: more real state to house their dumb AIs
It's the same move made by tech companies today: more real state to house their dumb AIs
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"People are poor and that's not enriching the rich"
![An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreigunh6t53vvgp2sewo2fsy4xttrwgy3zrdwplje7j2qjop5jdeyxy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"People are poor and that's not enriching the rich"
Its shameful seeing news sites using fake AI pictures for... anything.
That's not how excavations work stupid AI.
That's not how excavations work stupid AI.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Its shameful seeing news sites using fake AI pictures for... anything.
That's not how excavations work stupid AI.
That's not how excavations work stupid AI.
Here goes another attempt, come and say hi, and stuff...
Final playthrough of Scryption (Kaycee's MOD) challenge at 175 points.
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Here goes another attempt, come and say hi, and stuff...
Final playthrough of Scryption (Kaycee's MOD) challenge at 175 points.
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Final playthrough of Scryption (Kaycee's MOD) challenge at 175 points.
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Come and see if you dare!!!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
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This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.
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It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
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Is that good?
BBC: Pichai said while AI investment had been an “‘extraordinary moment’, there was some ‘irrationality’ ..
“Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said .. ‘I think no company is going to be immune, including us.’”
$GOOGL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said .. ‘I think no company is going to be immune, including us.’”
$GOOGL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Is that good?
Feeling depressed? How about playing a game that constantly hates you?
Let's go Inscryption!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Let's go Inscryption!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Feeling depressed? How about playing a game that constantly hates you?
Let's go Inscryption!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Let's go Inscryption!
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
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This is bullshit.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is bullshit.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
Feeling super stressed...what better way to release that than playing some Inscryption, am I right?
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Feeling super stressed...what better way to release that than playing some Inscryption, am I right?
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
www.twitch.tv/atroxlair?sr=a
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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The Pedo-Protector Prez ordered a brand new distraction & the Dept. of War (actually the Dept. of Defense: a mini-distraction within a distraction, no extra charge!) is delivering by expanding our ongoing unlawful policy of randomly bombing the tiny boats of fishermen with no due process whatsoever.
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Pedo-Protector Prez ordered a brand new distraction & the Dept. of War (actually the Dept. of Defense: a mini-distraction within a distraction, no extra charge!) is delivering by expanding our ongoing unlawful policy of randomly bombing the tiny boats of fishermen with no due process whatsoever.