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Disregard ethics for a second. I would argue it is much more unethical to use AI generated art in a game than it would be to use AI generated code. Here’s why:

AI art steals the role of artists because it uses algorithms to produce a product that has never existed before, like an artist does with colors instead of math.

AI code isn’t great. That’s why so many experienced coders are being hired to come fix the nightmare code that companies used AI to generate after firing all their coders. But that’s because AI only knows how to put together code that has already existed, which means all an AI is really doing is interpreting your input and producing an output - just like you would do if you thought of what you wanted your code to do, spent countless hours pouring through search results, forums, textbooks, etc., slapping some shit together, and running it through a validator. Most applications have validators built into the workspace, meaning if you write something that doesn’t work or make sense, it’s going to tell you (and probably even tell you how to fix it). So, just think of AI as a slightly smarter validator. You write some really bad code (what you want the code to do in English) and the validator goes “this English code makes no sense, here’s what it should look like.”

There’s no guarantee the “corrections” it makes will actually work, fit into the code you already have, be organized in the most efficient way, or be the best way to handle that particular task. But, a huge chunk of a coder’s time is thinking about things like that anyway. So let the AI fix your English code into whatever language you’re actually trying to speak, and you deal with the other half: is this how I want it to work?

But that’s just me. 🤷🏻

Edit: If after all that you’re still not feeling very ethical, then show a coder your product and see if they’ll use their brain’s LLM to validate better code.

Sorry, accidentally swapped the letters. Answered by brb

I don’t like microtransactions, but can you come up with a source of revenue for a game that allows for constant updates that include new features, mechanics, artwork, audio, etc. that isn’t MXT or ads?

The people that will be angry about MXT are the same that would be angry their game hasn’t seen any major updates in 5-10 years, like their initial investment somehow supports unlimited development. It’s just not feasible.

They had a warrant.

It’s okay to have privacy concerns regarding that, but don’t make shit up to make it sound worse than it was.

Sure you can. Wouldn’t that have been an easy excuse for this guy to reply with instead of all this defensive bullshit?

1. Of course not, because you refuse to answer a simple question.

2. Just because you were offended doesn’t mean I was being offensive. Learn the difference, kid.

Instead of being so defensive about it you could just answer the question… Did you have so much free time you decided to try signing up for a service you had no intention of using just so you could complain about it?

Seems a fair question to ask someone who makes a post to direct people away from a service under the presumption that they were trying to use it, only to find in the comments that they already use a different service that they not only enjoy, but are happy to freely advertise for.

Also, your justification for their lack of crypto payments is that they use a payment system they designed themselves, which I find funny since most of the complaints I see about Proton (granted, not yours) is the unverifiability of their operations, leaning on “Just trust me, bro.” which is the same thing as this site’s payment processing system. 🤭

Are there any non-self-hosted services where that’s not the case?

This is an unfortunate truth. I occasionally teach a short course on basic computer networking with a short segment on Unix/Linux to students ranging from ages 18-25 and only about 1 or 2 out of every class of 20 even knows what an “operating system” is.

Why are you trying to sign up for Proton if you already use another provider?

So, they operate a repo of open source code as a cover for their internal repo of completely different code?