Synopsis: You need to kick more people out.

You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I agree, but I also think it behooves the good faith actors in this scenario to just meet people where they are with terminology. We had lots of language for “AI” - playing against the computer, bots, RNG, etc. - before the intentional obfuscation hit. Using those can help us get genAI dealt with.

And my point is that if consumers say “every possible use case is unacceptable,” that leaves openings for devs who explicitly refuse to touch the stuff to succeed.

A lot of the genAI argument boils down to, “It exists, ergo we have to accept its use.” That’s both false, and not how markets work.

Because people don’t want that either? I don’t think this is as complicated as you’re making it out to be.

Consumers don’t want genAI tools used in the creation of art. Arguing over what kind of spoon is in use after the customer said, “No spoons, please!” doesn’t seem productive.

ohh I gotta crack my copy of Beastro open yet, good reminder

The thing that drives me genuinely bananas about this is that the correct response to this is for developers, influencers, and advocates to *stop using Steam*. It's a bad platform run by maliciously compliant people that's causing real downstream harms to the whole industry.

Oh this is a fascinating prompt. In 2016 I'd have almost assuredly said Overwatch; with the benefit of time and distance, probably Civ VI, by a fair margin.

Yeah, we made the switch to Apple a few years ago to be on Anything But Spotify, and it's unfortunately not great out there no matter what you do.