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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 5h

hi vera i’ve missed you!

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 6h

ask any editor i’ve worked for. i am very easygoing and am not precious about my words at all. editors make writing much better.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 8h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 6h

yes for sure. the tech achievement is fairly new but the use case is old.

Gene Park @gene.meme · 7h

i will take a look. although i’ve just been enjoying taking a break playing the old silent hill titles. i’ve missed them so much

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 7h

ok why am i hearing digimon is some revelation lol must dig deeper

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 7h

The Expedition 33 studio says it will resist the economics of scaling up despite success in selling 5 million copies.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

i do think the game beats you over the head with this. the whole reason why the characters are realistic Unreal Engine designs is because they wanted the characters to be as human and relatable as possible.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

some are definitely giving it a pass. which is their right! but it’s weird when they get hardline about AI for things they don’t love

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

it’s why this form of comms for complicated subjects sucks. twitter or bluesky both

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

good question and also it’s entirely possible the asset was bought premade and they didn’t realize what it was. but it goes to show how messy it is these days to untangle yourself from AI when using new tech

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PursuedByABomb @pursuedbyabomb.bsky.social · 8h

When we say early, are we talking Unreal 4 build or after they'd gotten a publisher? I do think the time frame matters as I think opinions around GenAI really altered like 3 years ago. That's about when I learned better.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

like you said, i get taken at bad faith all the time. some days i have less patience for it. cheers thanks for the nice chatter

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

basically this haha bsky.app/profile/gene...

Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

yes but im also a journalist so im using judgement to detach myself from hardline opinions. annoying for me to navigate so i get annoyed when people are annoyed because im also annoyed lol

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

yes because im a journalist. im not supposed to attach myself to hardline opinions about anything except what i think about certain games, which is my role as a games critic.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

yes but im also a journalist so im using judgement to detach myself from hardline opinions. annoying for me to navigate so i get annoyed when people are annoyed because im also annoyed lol

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

you’re good. just got annoying seeing the same interpretation lol of course i empathize with artists and creators who fear what this could do. i am one of them.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

that’s fair for sure but also i feel annoyed that people would think otherwise

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

gotcha. but please engage in better faith esp since you know who i am.

Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

sigh

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

fair question but i dunno. i doubt they want to discuss it any further. they still won’t say what the games budget is either

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

also you know who i am. im literally a professional writer too.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

guys the quotes are just literal quotes. you’re assigning a judgment value to them i am not. i literally cite “critics say.”

am i being sarcastic when i say “critics say?” please reply in good faith

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Stabbity Style @stabbitystyle.bsky.social · 8h

It literally does steal art, though. That's how GenAI works. A company steals art from thousands/millions of artists, "trains" their AI model on them, then produces images based on that "training."

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

they’re not scare quotes they’re just quotes

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 8h

it’s not scare quotes im just quoting them

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 9h

let’s be real, the alters using AI was different than this. Alters used it and didn’t use real human translators, but AI text translation is old tech. expedition 33 used genAI which its critics say “steals art.”

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