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Everyone wants to own their games, yet GoG remains niche store (i.ibb.co)

submitted 9 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1237508/everyone-wants-to-own-their-games-yet-gog-remains-niche-store

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 44 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

gog make it pretty hard to like them, like putting AI slop on storefront and the recent email controversy they didn't really apologise for.

[–] BewareOfIdiot@nord.pub 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wait what? I've not heard about this

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

They sent out an email with Nazi symbols: see https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.uk/post/50278677

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I thought they did apologize for it?

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

The apology was "I'm sorry you such a stupid babies you don't know that SS rune is used by slavics actually (not true btw, who cares)"

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I’m willing to bet that email was helped out by AI.

What I suspect happened was they had AI write the email, AI is notoriously emoji happy, and the AI saw Slavic mysticism stuff and entered into a nazi rhetoric informed mode and added those Unicode characters.

LLMs are trained on the internet, that includes the racist nazi parts.

And of course nobody bothered looking it over.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 30 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The problem with this defence is that they did notice it because they removed it from the German version of the email, they said as such.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Maybe because AI said it was safer to remove them? It's not a great defense but basically every company has gone ape shit over AI now. I actually am being actively pushed to use it at work even though I don't want to.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

I didn’t say it was a defence.

It’s sheer incompetence. Just speculating into how the fuck this happened at all.