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This narrative thriller takes place in a fictional '80s OS, and the devs obsessed over keeping just the right amount of old school jank: 'We did retain the dial-up modem' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does anyone remember uplink?

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I think I have it, but never tried it. Came in a Humble Bundle, I think.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

What's up, link?

[–] jonman364@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Much of the game is played on the fictitious Amigo OS, an amalgam of Windows 3.1 and early Apple operating systems

Or maybe it's based on Amiga Workbench?

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Had me until AI.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There was no mention of AI?

[+] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That doesn’t sound like a kind of “AI” usage I’m particularly concerned about, but would be willing to listen to reasons of why it is or isn’t a problem

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just genuinely don't like the look of most AI generated imagery, also there's the ever prevalent conundrum that is the lack of supporting actual human artists.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, did you not like the images before you read that they used AI? Its pretty obvious that it was used as a tool by human artists from the write-up, in the same way that a human artist would use Photoshop.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, I actually sought out the AI disclaimer to confirm my suspicions since they had that uncanny valley feel to them.

A human artist using Photoshop would generally know how to fix that.

[+] tiredofsametab@fedia.io -8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The AI used was likely trained on sets of data without the consent nor compensation of the people whose works were used.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They devs literally addressed that in the comment above

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

I didn't take it to mean that the AI was exclusively trained on their own images, but good on them if they are.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve never understood this argument in a vacuum. Fair use includes education. And people have been getting inspired by art they don’t own a copyright to for ever.

There are lots of other critiques of ai that I do agree with.

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, everything is a remix. I think it all boils down to preferences on copyright and corpos as entities.

It's easier for me to accept that an inventor gets a 30+ year copyright (or lifelong for that matter) in our current societal setup. I even understand how most things today are a collaboration, so we need bigger entities to hold such copyrights. And this is the point where I personally start seeing the problems.

I feel if we keep this up, art will move towards a l'art pour l'art phase. Mass media will turn into something personally tuned and we'll be charged a premium for something that was touched by human inspiration. Don't know if I helped or digressed too much, but these are my worries in the vacuum.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I almost would have preferred that they lower the quality of the images they took, or use an older camera for more of that "old school jank" vibe they were supposedly going for.

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe that user is a bot that just complains about AI.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lol the idea of an AI bot designed to criticize AI is hilarious and may be an acceptable use of AI.

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

i think the effect would be to further muddy the discourse