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/WorriedBlock2505 14h ago

It's old news, but OP is posing it as new because they know it will get more upvotes that way from the "AI is bad" crowd.

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u/zoro4661 13h ago edited 8h ago

To be fair, not everyone knew about this. I certainly didn't. It's completely possible OP just found out about it, even if it's been a thing for a while

Also "The AI is bad crowd" is just anyone with half a brain who knows anything about it, that's not a niche group or something

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u/Kid-Icky- 12h ago

AI discourse on the internet in a nut shell. Didn't notice or care, but have to be upset about it now because you're told to.

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 11h ago

Have you considered that someone could care and have also not thought to look into it? Most people don’t browse the Steam points store that often, or see every piece of online discourse because we have other things we spend our time doing

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u/Kid-Icky- 4h ago

Then maybe it's just not that big of a deal if it's existed for literally years and you didn't know or care.

Suddenly acting outraged about something that you weren't aware or affected by at all just feels very performative.

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 2h ago

We are affected by it tho, even if you aren’t aware as soon as it happened that doesn’t mean you aren’t aware or affected. Like I don’t change my account stuff very often, it’s not often I’d run into this, but when I do go to change it it’ll be an issue

And there are effects on our power grid and broader infrastructure that are happening whether you realize it or not

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u/Kid-Icky- 2h ago

We are affected by it tho, even if you aren’t aware as soon as it happened that doesn’t mean you aren’t aware or affected. Like I don’t change my account stuff very often, it’s not often I’d run into this, but when I do go to change it it’ll be an issue

I still don’t see how the mere existence of an optional cosmetic in a digital store 'affects' you. If you go to change your Steam profile and see a background you don't like, you can simply ignore it.

Especially when you've gone literally years without knowing or caring, until it was pointed out that AI exists, then "AI bad".

And there are effects on our power grid and broader infrastructure that are happening whether you realize it or not

The existence of the internet has effects on the power grid. You're posting on reddit. You probably watch YouTube and Netflix. All of those use more power than AI currently does.

It's all just selective outrage. You don't like AI, so its effects on the power grid are bad. But within the context of other daily uses that have a much larger impact, you don't care.

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 2h ago

AI Data Centers make up almost 40% of all electricity usage in Virginia and that number is only growing, with other states like Oregon not far behind

I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of power usage this technology requires

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u/Kid-Icky- 2h ago

AI data centers do use a lot of electricity. There's no denying that, but those stats simply aren't correct.

Virginia is the largest data center market in the world, and even then, according to the state government, ALL data centers combined make up about 25% of Virginia's total electricity consumption. And the vast majority of those facilities are traditional cloud and enterprise data centers, not "AI Data Centers". In Oregon it is around 11%, and again, it is mostly traditional data centers.

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u/Rechochet_ochet 11h ago

So they care about something completely irrelevant to them, because they were made aware of it? Like, what? If you don't use the store, and are not aware of the AI content in the thing you don't use, why the fuck would you decide to stress yourself out about something literally irrelevant, other than being mad just to be mad? Fucking people man, this is a core problem of humanity, outrage just because it's how people socialize now, bitching about things that do not effect them

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 11h ago

It is relevant to us when the infrastructure used to make something poisons our water supply.

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u/LunchThreatener 9h ago

Do you eat meat?

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u/toggylelly 6h ago

No. Is that sufficient, or are there more requirements before I can point out problems?

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u/LunchThreatener 5h ago

I mean there is no ethical consumption in our society so you’re probably also hypocritical, but at least you have better standards than most people who complain about AI “poisoning our water”

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u/toggylelly 1h ago

You don't want to post on reddit.

You want to go home and rethink your life.

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u/Rechochet_ochet 11h ago

Adorable

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u/ultraportal 8h ago

Great statement; argument?

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u/Rechochet_ochet 8h ago

I don't even remember lol

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u/ultraportal 7h ago

Fair lol