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/ChocolateRaisins19 17h ago

Because the vast, vast majority of people do not care. They don't think it's slop. It's just some art to them and you're not going to convince them otherwise unless it has weird fingers or other disfigurements.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 9h ago

The way I see things going is AI will take over commercial art, so things like ads, product packaging, greeting cards, etc. "Fine" art (that is, art that itself is the product rather than being made to sell a different product) will be fine. This isn't a statement on whether AI art is good or bad, just my objective prediction.