@davidgerard I mashed my thumb on the original link and my phone immediately started getting warm so I closed the page. Went to the archive link and I could feel my phone cooling down as I read the article.

@davidgerard Having briefly looked at it on youtube, it's definitely not putting any voice actors out of work, so. That's something.

@davidgerard You know, I have a feeling this might disprove "no such thing as bad press".

@davidgerard hmm, the article links to another one of theirs, saying that the price of AI is falling faster than other technologies, which seems nonsensical to me https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/the-price-of-ai-is-crashing-faster-than-the-rate-of-moores-law-report-suggests-intelligence-costs-are-in-freefall-outpacing-comparative-technologies-like-compute-dna-sequencing-and-lithium-batteries

@davidgerard HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAetc.

@davidgerard my william shatner st:v “excuse me” moment here: exactly why the flying goat brained fuck would one want to have to download local ai models on capable hardware to play a game called “teach my little sister to drive”

@davidgerard since they say there's going to be a set price for the final game and users won't be charged for their token use, they must really believe, deep in their hearts, that tokens are going to get cheaper. That's so sweet.

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It doesn't even sound like they know they're supposed to be finding out now.

@davidgerard lowkey wanting to see the rugpull when token prices go up. But its better if the game just crashed and died (hmmm was pun intended?)

@davidgerard This is bold: "This led its costs to skyrocket to more than a thousand dollars daily, and cheaper fallback AI models have led to slop injected into gameplay"

So what, the AI people are trying to use "slop" specifically to mean *less powerful models*? Never gonna catch on, sorry

@davidgerard "It also said that it’s testing alternative AI models for smoother gameplay in Russia, which does not have easy access to Western models because of sanctions. They might find it hard to find suitable replacement AI models, though, because Ukraine has struck Russia’s largest data center."

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> SteamDB showed an average player count of under 10 people until late August, when it started gaining steam. By late September, this had ballooned to around 50 players, before finally hitting a peak of 431 on Oct. 1.

That's a bad, bad, no-good, terrible system to generate dialogue. 431 player count is nothing. This game will crash on release no matter what.

Whose brilliant idea was this??

@davidgerard why did they use Gemini for something they could have coded?

@davidgerard “Players will not be charged separately for their individual AI token usage after purchasing the game.”

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@davidgerard I feel like there’s a “challenge accepted” dare inserted in here somewhere. 🤣