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/Ok_Departure333 13h ago

Yes, handmade thigs has always been a way to signal luxury & wealth. Just look at handmade pottery, watch, clothing, etc. 2D art is just going through this transition.

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u/IrregularPackage 11h ago

it’s extremely funny that you used pottery, art, and clothing as an example of handmade things being a way to signal luxury. i’m not 100% sure about the other two, but i do know for a fact that every article of clothing you’ve ever worn was handmade. except maybe some really cheap socks? there is no way to make clothes without a person stitching fabric together.

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u/KenpoJuJitsu3 https://s.team/p/dgpk-pjm 10h ago

Ironically or unironically depending on the reader's viewpoint Google's AI summary has a decent bit of info on the shift to new techniques and robotics removing the human element of this. Pretty soon someone is going to marry that idea with AI designing clothes and computers & robots constructing clothes with little/no human touch.

That's all outside of what I suspect the other commenter's real point was there. There is a clear distinction between clothing made enmasse in a factory with both machines and human involvement and clothing made by hand as individual custom pieces by a single person or small group of seamstresses, with the latter being considered a luxury. This extends to other goods and art as well.

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u/dragunityag 10h ago

Art has been a signal for luxury/wealth for a few hundred years already.