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grandwitchbird

The line from Planescape: Torment to Disco Elysium was already a bit funny. If you don’t already know, DE directly takes a lot from P:T—and I mean a lot—and still manages to make something original. Like an Estonian murder mystery that’s not really a murder mystery full of post-Soviet politics doing magical realism while directly lifting its philosophical and narrative structures from an old D&D game was. Absurd. Should not have worked. The fact that the old D&D game is the best written game ever remains absurd in its own right.

But Esoteric Ebb being based on both is somehow the funniest outcome possible. Swedish 5e knock off that’s better than the actual 5e video games doing an Ankh-Morporkian pastiche of fantasy metaphor politics wrapped in the metapolitics of a tabletop campaign while lifting its structure from Disco Elysium. Shouldn’t work, but it does. And it’s delightful. And it’s doing something interesting with the idea of derivativeness in art.

jame7t

there’s a war between Sucking and Fucking

jame7t

you people cannot be trusted in the war room

shnowyfox

it would be so awesome

it would be so cool

theartofmadeline

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

pancakevodoo

He raggin on my hemlin till i ebb

that-house

Try exploring the wizard's body

earhartsease

animentality

thevulturesquadron

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

rudjedet

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.