The Steam game store is 75% to 80% of the market for video games. Since January last year, Steam has had an AI disclosure policy on games. This is instead of just rejecting games with AI in them, a…
  • minorkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Could but won’t. Your argument is the same as always. Is it a good idea? Yes. Would it help us affect change? Yes. Will people do it? No.

    Everyone is good at either not caring or accepting an excuse they can live with so they don’t have to make a sacrifice. They would follow the majority if the majority actually did something but that is very likely impossible. Any movement to boycott AI games would have to compete with literally billions of dollars invested in marketing, advertising and social engineering that coerce us to buy in. At some point you just have to decide how you will delay with the reality that the majority really isn’t an ally in waiting, its your biggest opposition, content to do whatever is easiest for themselves, even if you can see clearly how unwise it is.

    Much more significant ethical and moral issues have arisen that have also been crushed by the selfishness of the herd. If you boycott, you cut yourself off, diverging from the majority culture, in which most of our collective resources are invested. The majority is what makes being a minority, of any kind, a risk because it moves us in a direction with little regard for who it leaves behind or why.

    • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      I absolutely hear what you’re saying, and I don’t disagree with you; it’s an uphill battle. I also feel frustrated that boycotts aren’t stuck to by most people.

      It is possible, though. We’re human beings with our own faculties and we’re capable of making our own decisions of something aligns with our values - regardless of internal or external pressures.

      I used to use Spotify constantly. I boycotted them around three years ago and haven’t touched the service since. I boycotted Amazon around the same time, right when I was in the middle of a long series of audio books which I’ll now likely never finish I guess. I’ve stopped eating out at any restaurants, or using any delivery services. I’ve stopped smoking, and drinking. I sold my PS5. All for various reasons, and all against marketing pressure, peer pressure, or my own temptation.

      I understand that the majority of people don’t stick to boycotts, and I get it. In this case, some people don’t care that genAI is used etc, some people aren’t aware of the problems with genAI, some people aren’t aware it’s even being used. Also - life is hard, and it often sucks. We can’t blame people wanting to just shut up and chill out, rather than deprive themselves of something that might make them happy. Totally understandable.

      What I’m saying, though, is that we, the people having this discussion right now in this thread, seem to agree that genAI sucks and that it also sucks that nobody sticks to boycotts.

      So why don’t we just decide to boycott? Not talking about the majority, or the public, or some great chunk of the population - I’m saying you, and me, and the other people in this thread. You can decide to boycott and to stick to it. Doesn’t matter what the majority do. I have decided to boycott, and stick to it.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      imagine being this dedicated to being fucking mid

      e: correction, rolling over and exposing your belly for generative fucking AI of all things isn’t mid. it’s fucking broken behavior, especially right after similarly unpopular garbage (crypto, metaverses) pushed by the exact same people failed in the market because the target audience mostly just sneered at it and refused to buy in

      like I’m sorry you feel like you’re forced to buy CoD 7 or whatever other AAA games succumb to this shit, but have you considered expanding your tastes past garbage? if you want to say fuck you to Tim in a language he understands, go play a good epic game or a a great epic game for free instead of paying $80 or $200 or whatever the fuck these jokers think it should cost for fucking trash.