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X is not food or water or housing or education or energy or anything that comes close to basic human need. It is a silly little chat program no different than IRC or friendster or Myspace., and we get along fine without those. And it has little positive to to add to its users lives. This should not be a hand wringing decision.

I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.

So a significant amount of time and resources were poured into a project whose sole intention was to gain an advantage against other people playing fairly in a video game?

Is this what the world needs now?

Is their next project hydraulics for people to compete in the county wide weightlifting competition?

What a complete waste of ideas.

Neat! Will it collect all the personal data on house location, number of rooms and floors, probable number of kids and pets and calculate my probable disposable income sell that info to insta cart like services so they can decide just how much to jack up my price ?

I’m sure all of the recently out of work artists and programmers are heartbroken over another game that paid for gen AI instead of hiring them. I’m sure the AI company executives just needed the money more. Fuck whomever decided to AI in the Clair project management team. You could have actually deserved that awards. Good on the Indie Game Awards for actually supporting indie developers

Remember this is about gen AI, the kind whose only purpose is to replace artists, modelers, voice actors, etc. with slop that the AI stole from other sources and melted into a low quality souless art without paying. In no way could this ever be considered a good thing.

Wow. This is a great analogy. Thank you for the visual.