27 - He/Him - Gruntled Neighbour
Had to stop running @gamershame because it was stressing me out.
Dom, Mother of Gamers
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Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖
Today's Israel: Israel brutally murders Lebanese marine ecologist that protected a precious turtle nesting area by literally bombing her house. They long stopped making up clearly bullshit excuses about Hamas or Hezbollah, they just execute people now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Read the article because the requirements for XBOX are also unbelievable. It's insane that this made it into a press release without any of the decision makers realising how insane and unpopular this is.
Idk if this is interesting. But I hate to see these companies win their disinformation campaigns.
These companies are not close to creating artificial general intelligence and they know it. That is still as much a work of science fiction as it was 10 years ago.
Algorithms were already conditioning users to generate the generic content that is optimised for user retention, LLM AIs are just an attempt to cut out the middle-man.
I know this isn't how these terms are commonly used, but the common usage makes less sense. We should have realised by now that the blockchain didn't meaningfully change the way people use the internet.
Web 1.0: direct, text-based, peer-to-peer connection.
Web 2.0: GUIs, websites, designed for hosting/sharing information.
Web 3.0: Algorithms, optimised for user retention and advertising spend.
Combined, current LLMs represent a shared frontier of user retention and advertising opportunities.
I don't think LLM AI is a new era of the internet, it is just an extension of the era we were already in which is one of algorithmically curated feeds.
I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam
illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...
