Ban advertising entirely.

What the hell is any of this?

Thanks, Amazon, for motivating a bunch of people to fucking hate you.

It’s especially silly because training is transformative use. If the robot read every book in the library, great, that’s what a library is for.

Decent goal, bad reason.

Right, like how people got sued for piracy, and now there’s no more piracy.

Just fund it with taxes, you dolts. Should’ve done it in the first place. It’s a function of the state, like anything else that some people use and some people don’t.

When it has 27 electrons: Ionic.

Training is transformative use. Sluicing data through a pile of linear algebra, to mechanically distill the essence of words like “fantasy,” is not what copyright protects against.

“Finally.”

Dixie.Flatline-TiNYiSO

Wat.

Or you can get a different kind of weird.

1 + 1 = “11”.

Debatable.

Perl is a write-only language.

Some people are still waiting on a text editor that never lags.

HTML5 applications goddamn well ought to be first-class programs, as a totally platform-agnostic realization of Turing completeness.

Instead you get every application bundled with its own whole-ass operating system and virtual machine. For a fucking webpage. Yep! No other way to run that on a modern computer!

but it feels too reliant on generative AI.

… how the fuck else was it supposed to happen?

I don’t want to talk to a game.

Then why did you review this title?!

Here is my drive-by reaction to this: if you don’t value the written word enough to have a writer create unique, intentional dialogue, then why make a game based around conversation?

Because a human accounting for all possible inputs is impossible, you dingdong.

The sole screenshot is a brain in a bucket, and this article has absolutely nothing to say about the content of the game. However you feel about LLMs - these devs didn’t prime the NPCs with “You’re in an Agatha Christie story, go.” They’ve got some kind of wacky bullshit going on, and stylish macabre presentation, and (one would fucking hope) an underlying mystery.

This isn’t Shadows Of Doubt, right? Because that game actually does let the machine make up the story.

This kneejerk clickbait crap doesn’t even address the obvious concerns about the one part it’s fixated on. Is the LLM local? Or will this game suddenly stop working, when OpenAI changes their pricing? If it actually runs on your PC, does it require beeftank specs just to show visual-novel presentation? Does it trickle out words like everyone’s on quaaludes, if you use a laptop over wifi?

If you have to ask, they’ve already fucked you.