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Comment That is going to do a lot of damage (Score 1) 69

Because most of these were things that actual mathematicians had been working towards for decades. Now their results have been stolen. And, obviously, without all the work they have done, "AI" would not have had any chance in hell to get these results. What this will do is that mathematicians will become secretive (harming the field) and many people that wanted to go into the field will go elsewhere (harming the field). Great job.

The LLM assholes essentially accepted huge damage to society for a somewhat moderate gain on their side. That is one of the definitions of "evil".

Comment Re:I hope they realize people hate slop (Score 1) 68

people hate AI slop, and doing all these slop-enabling AI things is just going to erode the trust in the actual market.

This. No good game was ever created from a single prompt. Not to an AI, not a human development team. Every single person writing those damn "look which game my AI built from a single prompt and $x in tokens!" postings is a newbie and almost certainly has never actually shipped a single game.

Game development can be summed up as endless iterations. Every system you build, every visual you create, every sound, text, button, movement, weapon, skill, powerup needs polishing, refinement and changes. It is never, never good enough the first time.

And no, Roblox is not a serious gaming platform.

No it is not, but it IS a very successful platform for a specific subclass of games. If I were in it for the money, I could probably AI refactor some of my earliest games and publish them on Roblox and make a quick buck. If your thing is the kind of games you played on your C64 back in 1793, then Roblox got you covered. Well, if you ignore the scams and money-grabbing.

Comment oh Unity, how you lost your way (Score 1) 68

*sigh* I wish Unity would actually complete some of their dozens half-finished sub-systems instead of constantly chasing the latest trend. It's become really, really annoying. The engine used to be really good. These days, it falls apart if you look at it the wrong way, and at least from the responses to my bug reports it's clear that fixing issues is way down on the agenda.

Maybe this is their attempt to regain grounds in the indie game market - the very market they pushed away by focussing on AAA requirements for years and ignoring the single devs and small teams. If so, I can already tell them that it won't work. We collectively laugh about all the "look what my AI built for me from a single prompt" postings on reddit, where people proudly show off some AI slop that would get them last place at a game jam.

Their AI efforts so far: Tried to build and sell their own AI tools, to a collective yawn from the audience. Built a barely-working MCP server, then deprecated it before it was even finished in order to push a CLI interface to the editor instead, which only works if it's run as the same user as the editor on the same machine. And completely ignores every single advise on workflows and good development practices you can think of.

Unity, I love your engine, I despise your management. Please return to when you were actually good and stop chasing butterflies.

Comment Re:None (Score 1) 90

Funny how that goes, isn't it? The thing is propaganda is a lie. It targets emotions (here the feeling of being unsafe) and tries to amplify them and then bind them to something the propaganda-maker sells. Works the same for tooth-paste, cameras or Fascism: The aim is to bypass the rational assessment of things. And, sadly, it works on a _lot_ of people because generally speaking people cannot fact-check for shit in the first place and this emotional approach bypasses what small skills they may have in that area nicely. It also means that anybody using this approach is not a good person because things built on lies never work out.

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