And what really burns is that they STILL want the prestige of human art. That’s why they hide AI use. That’s why Sandfall didn’t disclose i until they were caught t. That’s why awards shows don’t want rules. They want the aura of craft without the cost of respecting the people who do it.

Let Larian be another learning lesson: never assume that someone who made something you love is automatically pristine. A lesson I’ve learned endlessly the past few years.

I wish we could create things without the specter of money hovering over it, incentivizing the mistreatment of the workers and the erasure of the creative process.

I feel bad that BG3, a game I’ve purchased and spent time in and that is hugely important to many of my friends, apparently had negative labor practices associated with it and the CEO protecting racists and sex offenders working on it.

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with

True, I failed to consider Sawdust Dividends