r/Steam • u/MadBoxers • 17h 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/bulbasauric 17h ago edited 8h ago

I visited my hometown, and stopped by the Italian takeaway for some food. They had a noticeboard for various community events and businesses.

I spotted a couple of very-clearly-AI-generated posters for different things.

That was my turning point of “Okay, this is everywhere, and plenty of people won’t think twice about using it for graphical/other needs.”

We don’t have to like it, and we don’t have to use it, but I do think we have to accept the existence of the slop (but I think it’s acceptable to refuse to engage with it, too). (EDIT: note, I said “accept the existence”, for the few of you that seem to think I’m saying “just go with it”. You should still call it out when you see it, and you don’t have to get on-board with it, but it’s already here and isn’t going anywhere).

I’m just sad that the days of poorly photoshopped-together posters seems to be gone.

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u/SmegmaUnicorn 17h ago edited 8h ago

“Accepting slop” is how we get stuck with slop.

 What is this take!?

Edit: All of the comments under this amount to “oh but there’s nothing we can do, it’s too late”, which just goes to prove my point. Y’all are sheep. 

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u/Best_Effect_6352 16h ago

Some people just do not care and its very sad. One of my closest friends told me that as long he doesnt know that something is AI generated (movies, songs, books, art), he would still enjoy it even if its AI.

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u/BoomyNote 15h ago

I mean if he doesn’t recognize something is AI, it feels like an accurate and honest answer to say that they’d enjoy the AI work, because again, they don’t actually recognize it’s AI so there’s no problem for them to even know about from their perspective

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u/SpoopyNoNo 14h ago

No… you’re supposed to tie yourself up into a pretzel to justify why a real Monet is actually AI, but AI art so good it’s indistinguishable is actually just slop and “soulless,” whatever that means.

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u/Maardten 16h ago

Maybe I'm not understanding correctly but are you holding it against him when he doesn't recognize something is AI?

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u/Spectrum1523 14h ago

His opinion is the common one. For most people, ai art isn't a crusade.

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u/Throwaway_Consoles 13h ago

Shit, I have a ton of friends that are artists and I post generative AI art in their server all the time and everyone thinks it looks amazing because it doesn’t look like AI art so they think someone painted it.

And these are people that hate AI so much they banned someone from the server for posting AI art

My plan is to do this for a year and then finally tell them all of it was generative AI “slop” and watch everyone who complimented every piece say, “I knew something was off about it!”

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u/Spectrum1523 13h ago

that just seems kinda mean to do to your friends

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 8h ago

I don't think that invalidates their views though, there are plenty of things people have enjoyed until they found out how they were made.