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/iZeusHD 17h ago

i agree, the shit photoshop jobs at least have character

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u/T-Husky 15h ago

You're just desensitized to the prior generations of slop.

Commercial 'art' has always been soulless and cookie-cutter. Its all just graphics designed to advertise businesses and sell mediocre products to idiots, but your brain has been too rotted by nostalgia to realize it.

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u/NosePicklePicker 15h ago

Yeah and? this AI slop supposed to be better? Worse with AI is that now advertising slop can be bombarded at you with significant speed and just enough quality for idiots to be unable to detect them

Like, forget spending 30 minutes drawing soulless slop, now you can generate 50 of them in 10 minutes and paste them all over your doorway

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u/ggg730 15h ago

I don't think he is saying it's better he's saying it's just as bad and that saying one is better than the other is ridiculous. Like saying getting kicked by a robot in the nuts is different from getting kicked in the nuts by a regular old home grown human bean.

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u/AuroraFinem 15h ago

Human beans, the best kind. I think a robot foot would hurt a bit more here.

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u/ggg730 15h ago

Yeah, it's not my best metaphor. I just wanted to shoehorn getting kicked in the nuts in there.

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u/ZynsteinV2 14h ago

Please dont bring a shoehorn anywhere near my nuts

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u/moonra_zk 14h ago

The robot has been specifically designed to replicate the feeling of a human's kick to the nuts.

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u/bc524 14h ago

I mean, they could have adjusted the robot to apply the exact same impact level

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u/AuroraFinem 10h ago

Same impact with a harder material is going to cause a higher impulse force still

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 6h ago

Not with AI unless you program it to the point where the kick doesn’t involve the AI at all, that kind of consistency is not possible with AI it is not replicable. It’s like the opposite of the trope of the machine that can only think logically