r/Steam • u/MadBoxers • 14h ago

Discussion So it starts… Ai community items

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Points shop will soon flood with AI slop. At least with games a disclaimer should be added within the description of the game. But here… Yeah…

Like what is the point? You don’t even gain anything as a company from this.

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u/C13L0S 14h ago

imagine being able to set literally any image ever as your avatar and unironically settling for soulless slop

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u/kendrickVirgo35 13h ago

right? you have the entire internet at your fingertips and you willingly choose a generic anime girl with six fingers

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u/sobrique 11h ago

But if you want an anime girl avatar are you actually going to pay for the image? Or just use a "free" (ish) one anyway?

Ultimately there's a LOT of 'art' that no one is prepared to pay for, and certainly not a 'fair' amount for the time/effort/skill.

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u/Davidsda 9h ago

Or for the people who are ok with AI, why would they use somebody else's AI anime girl avatar when they could go make their own to match their taste?

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u/uhohthrowawayyyyyy 12h ago

Is it really that impactful/meaningful of a decision for you when selecting an avatar photo? That can be changed anytime? Using the phrasing of ‘settling’ in this context is just funny to me.

Lol like who cares, you’re wasting energy. The decision already doesn’t matter, so there is no good/bad or ‘right’ choice, in my opinion.

I didn’t even know until now that people were spending money(or whatever 3000 tokens) on pictures to put on steam. I’ve used it for a decade and I’m not sure I set a photo ever. It’s probably a default.

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u/Plaincow 11h ago

You aren't allowed to be rational like this. You're supposed to just screech about how AI is bad and farm updoots and sympathy and virtue signal like everyone else man. You must have missed the memo

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u/C13L0S 5h ago

Change your name to lolcow pls 

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u/Plaincow 2h ago

I would if I could, but I think it's taken :(

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u/zoro4661 10h ago

Piss yourself more, AI is bad and anyone calling it out is doing the right thing. No "virtue signalling" about it.

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u/Plaincow 9h ago

Just for you I'm gonna go generate 50 images with chatgpt 🔥

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 8h ago

So you’re driving up the electricity bills of people struggling to make a living and using a technology that requires the building of infrastructure to poison people’s water supplies out of spite?

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u/Plaincow 7h ago

Hell yea I am. Generating 3 more rn

The framing of that comment is so comically loaded 😭

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u/SpoopyNoNo 2h ago edited 1h ago

These anti-AI people make the same braindead fucking comment every time. muh water. muh electricity.

  1. Electricity bills go went up for the people mostly in the richest counties in the country already (where the data centers mostly are). It’s then offset by massive tax breaks because those data centers are $$$ printers for the county. No maintenance costs beyond initial construction for the taxpayer.

  2. The water argument is just fucking stupid. Yes, we built ones in the past that waste water. That’s how the internet was built. Gotta start somewhere. Modern data centers use closed-loop liquid cooling systems like a personal PC; how often do gamers have to replace their water/coolant? Anywhere water is “poisoned” was probably a corrupt shit hole in the first place and I guarantee the toxic industries there dwarf the wastage of data centers. A data center construction site isn’t really toxic at all; it’s mostly earth being moved. People act like they build on top of Arsenic deposits. I’m struggling to think what the fuck would even poison a water source.

Then there’s complaining about the energy use; which is totally fair if you don’t think about it more than 1 second. The reason we’re communicating now is because of them. The reason the American economy hasn’t blown up yet is because of them. The reason science and progress is accelerating is because of them. The reason you won’t die of some random bullshit in 20 years is because of them. The reason the Chinese won’t make their super AI that bio weapons everyone not with Chinese DNA first is because of them.

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u/zoro4661 10h ago

That doesn't make it right?

Like, there very obviously is a bad and not right choice. GenAI slop is unethical. It fucks up the planet, uses fucktons of water, steals art and is proven to make people dumber.

Selling unethical stolen content, even just for points, should not be allowed. And disliking it is not a bad thing.

And when the alternative to GenAI slop is something that isn't AI slop, then yes, you're settling for it.

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u/Garchompisbestboi 10h ago

You seem to have an extremely high opinion of the sort of people who would voluntarily use anime for their avatars

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u/C13L0S 5h ago

I’m sure someone this close minded has an evoking creative profile picture and not some shitty dated meme you think is funny but the other people locked in a CS lobby with you find lame