As someone who used to dig deep into indie/underground music, it's always been the case of finding the good in the gutter. after a while you start recognizing cues. S/o the old blog spaces but usually folks into indie have a good eye of recognizing labels. I imagine it's not much different when it comes to video games.
As a trans woman who spent the better part of her 30's as a transient person; several of those living on various disgusting couches, and nearly a year living in a tent on unincorporated land not too far off of a major highway, I think those 'homeless' simulators are the absolute height of disgusting game concepts to begin with... Not even counting how devastatingly bad those games are. Now, we all know that the further right your politics are, the less ability to have any creative motive force in the ant farm that an alt-righter might call a 'brain'. Add in the game 'homeless simulator' and we start to see who is actually keeping these AI systems in business. Mark my words, the lack of creative ability, the need to bully, and them pushing AI on everything, plus their insatiable thirst for fossil fuels, scams that burn more energy and promise to break physics, Elon Musk pomising people can die horribly on mars, and the religious right screaming from the pulpit about the end times and that this world is disposable,... These people WILL destroy the world eventually.
@@spacepirateivynova I would agree with you about creativity. The quality of art always suffers when it's done for money rather than love, and when it's made by people with little to no media literacy. And insatiable greed and poor media literacy tend to be far more common on the right!
Not if we hold strong. We have resonance and actual providence. Angels are assigned to work the couches and tents not the penthouses and country clubs. I love you and appreciate that you’ve seen people at their most exploitative and still hold light 🤘🏾. Also, you know I’m right.
If they knew how hard it was to survive on the streets (as a trans woman even!) and made a game that was a simulation of that experience, we might actually get some hearts changed and distribute some compassion. But no one wants to have that conversation.
When I found out about the "homeless simulator" genre of games my blood ran cold for a moment and then burned with fury! I can't believe someone could be so lacking in empathy and humanity that they could have the idea for that "game" and follow through in making it😒
As a graphic designer AI art has been absolutely unbearable and really affected how i work, i've been forced to use this chrome extension called 'Pre-AI Search' which literally just filters to searches before 2023 (lol) and its the only way i can actually get non-AI reference designs anymore. Can't even imagine what the internet and this industry will be like in a few years.
A friend of mine was one of the developers of Starwhal. It took over a year and a chance encounter at a convention to get it on Steam only for Valve to open the floodgates shortly after and bury all their hard work under a pile of trash made over a weekend.
It's becoming easier and easier to spot the people who are just abusing new technology to make a quick buck. You'll always stand out from them, and there will always be people who value what you do!
Please continue chasing after art. I was in your position, but I decided to do a degree in psychology and keep art as a core hobby of mine. If you want a career in art then continue head on! Market yourself in the future the way organic markets stand out in a market of mass-produced products or like a distinguished chef using local ressources in a market of cheap labor and food in modern restaurants. What I’m trying to say is that you will stand out if you keep honing your skills earnestly
@Cinnuh It's funny I always think about what it would have been like if I had been better at school and managed to pursue a degree in psychology or medicine. Instead I am studying media and art. I love it a lot, and I will work hard to make it, but I sometimes get the urge to positively impact the world more directly. We have a lack of psychologists here, so that job would make an impact. On the other hand art is my life and I totally agree with you! To OP: Don't let AI and the greed of corporations get you down, if you work hard, you can achieve your goals in some way, just stay flexible and open!
The scale of the problem is so so bad. My sister works for a toy and media company -- she will go to prestige amusement parks to make sure there's not counterfeiting or infringement going on. But she'll also go to shitty strip malls, and pawn shops... It's heinous that they just let games like these just ... fester.
Looking at the bright side, these corporation AI's will make cyber security engineers and lawyers never be unemployed due to the sheer amount of problems generated by their own AI's
i can feel the rage behind this one the other facet of AI that really annoys me is how it's kinda ruined google search. for some searches a good chunk of the articles are just AI slop that doesn't actually answer the question. this is especially bad with searches about CS topics, and it annoys me so much that i mostly use manpages or official documentation/specifications over google now. it's just crazy that we've ruined the internet enough that sometimes the best way to learn about things is to learn about them the way we did before the internet.
Yes omg the Google searches are especially wrecked by ai I remember searching up the name of my favourite singer on Google and a lot of the photos were weird kinda s.×ual ai images of her that Barely even looked like her
There was this era of the App Store boom when almost everything on the "Games" pages would be Cocomelon levels of colorful and keywordy, because the whole point of the spam was to trick young children into buying garbage with their parents' credit cards. I think that might be what we're seeing here - a market of kids whose parents don't realize their Fortnite Machine can also charge their credit card.
Watching this in the middle of the night fills me with some much anger towards AI again. For years now, I'm trying to publish my first novel. In the meantime, I'm publishing short novels in self-publishing and participate in writing competitions to harness my craft. So seeing all those news about "AI tech bros wanting to release 8000 AI books in 2025" and such fills me with so much dread and anger. In addition, my field of study - Japanese Studies - is also threatened by AI. You can't imagine how often I heard questions like "Translating Japanese? Do we still need that with AI?" or "What can you offer what AI can't in the future?" and it makes me just sad. Both things that give me a meaning in life are threatened by some tech bros and their lazy and uncreative ways. Sorry for the long vent (and also sorry, if my English isn't the best), but I'm angry and tired.
I still remember back when I discovered Artbreeder and thought, "This kind of thing is neat, I hope people don't ruin it with their greed and duplicity." I mean, I knew it was going to happen, it always does, but *yeesh* is this even more bleak than usual.
I would argue that AI "art" is art that has been stolen. Someone's creativity and effort did go into the work that the AI is being trained on without the original artist's consent. Maybe that's pedantic, because I think in spirit we actually agree. :)
Ok but can we just address how great you look- your makeup brings out your eyes and lips, and your hair tied back with that neckline elongates your elegant neck. I just had to say something✨️
These AI slop games are out of control!! It’s so frustrating trying to look for a new switch game on sale when they have a billion supermarket simulator DX and hentai paradise puzzle games everywhere!
"It's like 2 Girls 1 Cup, if the girls were Superman 64 and Ride to Hell: Retribution." Jordan. Oh my God. I almost fell off the couch laughing. 😆😆😆 Also, I love that you mentioned Steph Sterling, brought up the execrable Gilson B. Pontes, and watching you talk about how shitty the games were as you showed footage gave me Caddicarus vibes. This was a delightful cross-pollination of stuff I'm interested in.
Thank you so much! That's a pretty good summation :) I really want to do more content like this because it lets me be slightly more lighthearted, so the support is really important ❤️
@deaddomain I get that it's pretty heavy, psychologically, to do a lot of stuff about politics and queerphobia and white supremacy and shit. I appreciate that you do that, but I also know it's *exhausting,* so I'm happy to watch somewhat more frivolous stuff from you. You're entertaining no matter what!
I'm worried that the AI slop trend won't die out suddenly like the NFTs did because it seems to be much easier for corporations to get away with using it. You get the occasional massive backlash, but the sad reality is that a lot of people both on and offline just don't really care enough. And that's not even getting into all the scams that you've talked about here and more. I really hope that I get proven wrong on this eventually. I would be happy to be wrong.
Don't worry, NFT's didn't actually die out, people just collectively stopped being upset about it. Eventually AI will be the same way. The folks that enjoy, like, and make use of it will continue to do so, and the rest of you will go on living your lives until the next thing to get upset about comes along.
It doesn't help that the public at large has been subject to decades of media and speculation about future technology framing AI as an inevitable and useful tool. Sure there's also been a ton of media about an AI singularity framing AI as a bad thing, but even in those stories AI is framed as being on an unalterable trajectory towards advancement and being good at its job. Meanwhile, the reality is AI is just a tool for money hoarders to flood our world with cheap shitty nonsense for no other purpose than milking money while doing absolutely no work or contributing anything to society.
I never heard of Gilson B Pontes before, but I'm like 99% sure he's Brazilian (so it's probably pronounced "Jilson"). Guys like him are kind of a running joke among game devs here because there are a lot of them. Brazil has a pretty big gaming market, but for economic reasons we still don't have a solid game dev industry. A lot of people think we need to catch up with international AAA studios so they make these insanely ambitious projects with a fraction of the necessary resources and just try their best to convince people it's a serious product. In college I met a group of 4 people trying to make "Brazilian Persona", but there's also a "Brazilian GTA" in development for over 8 years now, a "Brazilian Dragon Age", etc. It comes from a good place of wanting our games to be respected in the same way that international games are, but they just really miss the mark. The best games to come from Brazil usually lean into the indie aspect and know how to use the resources they have.
Art involves trial and error. Art involves decisions, thought, creativity and a desire to bring an idea to life. A machine, nay, a _program,_ cannot do so. Generative 'AI', and I use the term loosely, is not a 'who'. It is a 'what'. To call it Artificial Intelligence insults the concept. C-3PO is an Artificial Intelligence. Data from Star Trek is an Artificial Intelligence. Hal 9000 is an Artificial Intelligence. These programs are just designed to pump out cheap slop like those artificial Krabby Patties from that one Spongebob episode.
I have three plausible theories for how/why Gilson B Pontes ever made it onto the PSN market: - he's the son/nephew of a high-ranking Sony Brazil executive - it's a money-laundering front for a Brazilian criminal organisation - Gilson "himself" is one of the earliest examples of a "sentient" AI trained on Japanese game devs, cobbling together Unity assets in a vain attempt of the "monkeys with typewriters will eventually create Shakespeare" trial-and-error production method Any and all attempts to even figure out who Gilson B Pontes is, if they're real or not, often ends nowhere or people who apparently know more about Gilson show up and warn them to not look any further. Why all this mystery... 🤔
AI is part of the reason I know I'll never do freelance writing again. It also takes up like 90% of my Pinterest feed and Google Images searches too. I really wish they made it easier to filter it out.
The people hurt most by this are the casual consumer. Hapless children browsing the storefront, adults not connected to the gaming community and not receiving recommendations.
Jordan, you look positively fucking ETHEREAL here! Thanks for tackling this topic, it's one I ruminate on all too often. Since you mentioned pr0n, I recently found a channel called Sex Positive Gaming that specifically covers that kind of content. I'm too vanilla to explore that subculture much, but I love that it is there for those that are interested!
So screwed up how digital pollution has accumulated everywhere so fast trying to drown us all nearly everywhere we look. 1:25 - Awww....Know that you mean a lot to me and all of us all the same. Appreciate everything you do and you just being you. So please keep being you.
No because the Switch eshop has SUCH a problem with this omfg the way the eshop is built is a problem of its own but omgg if I have to see another ai "dating sim" with some shit golf game in the background I'm gonna freakkk
OpenAI actually called people who use anti-AI tools "abusers". All they're doing is trying to protect their artwork! Sam Altman can piss off. The only ones who will benefit from AI is big corps, not us. That's the only reason it's being pushed.
Hope things have been as well as they can be. Its a treat to get some gaming stuff from you (not that I dislike your current usual stuff), thanks as always!
4:15 DONT YOU DARE BAD MOUTH BIG RIGS! IT IS AN EXCELENT GAME AND DESERVES GOTY 100%! I MEAN HAVE YOU TRIED DRIVING BACKWARDS IN THAT GAME! THERES NO SPEED CAP IF YOU DRIVE IN REVERSE! THE MAYHEM IS AMAZING!
This all reminds me of the Digital Homicide debacle almost a decade ago now, who infamously tried to sue Stephanie Sterling - then Jim Sterling - with a whole lot of story surrounding that, which i won't go into too much here. Why doesn't Sony not do anything about these scam games and purge them from the PlayStation Store? Thsy actively harm genuine, honest and hardworking indie developers who are unable to get much visibility on Sony's digital storefront, often unable to afford extensive, lavish marketing like large AAA developers and publishers can. This is whst happens when game development is democratised and made more easier to do by a small team or even just a single person, it is a double edge sword: You either get fantastic gems like Animal Well and Sea of Stars, both fantastic indie games I high recommend to anyone. But you also get merde like these AI Art asset flips and Life of Black Tiger.
I think the reason why Sony ignores it is that MBA's are only trained to think in the short term, so they ignore long term costs and consequences that come from the reputation and lost sales caused by all this slop. Because as far as they're concerned a sale is a sale and besides, "only the big releases matter".
@The_Mess85 Maybe it explains some things, but I refuse to believe that this will not have longer term consequences for user engagement and satisfaction, as well as the relationships with genuine indie developers.
One of the worst offenders on the Switch at least is a company called Aldora games whose games get pumped out like there's no tomorrow, absolutely flooding the eshop. And they're all completely AI-generated visual novels that clearly steal from companies like Disney to a degree I'm surprised they haven't been sued yet.
It reminds me of Digital Homicide Studios owned by the Romine Brothers out of Arizona. I wouldn't be surprised if some of could be the Romines right to and including the asset flipping tendency. As in it's the quality of Romine made games, it's the software used by the Romines and given the behavior of the Romines, the only things new would be marketing tactics such as using attractive women to market the games and AI (which obviously they'd probably love to use as asset flippers).
I wanna blame a lot of people... The DOOM community also had a similar problem with SLIGE and OBLIGE making absurd amounts of randomly generated levels flooding the forums. And DOOMWORLD doesn't have a trillion dollars.
17:00 You can see the Trophies in offline mode. This happens when Sony forgets to publish the Trophy Pack to their cloud servers. It's been an issue with other games too.
It's even worse for phone games. There are so many slop thumbnails and obvious rip-offs of more successful games. Even a few games that I played in the past have started changing their icons to redesigns obviously made using AI. It's disappointing and annoying.
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It's really cool listening to you talk games as you're so knowledgeable and passionate about them. I've been going back through your old gaming content and really enjoying it too. I'd be happy to see more videos like this as well.
Thank you for spreading some awareness on this. I haven't seen enough people talk about this. Not only is this bad for indie devs but it's also bad for major publishers and the console companies because my virtual shop experience has been tainted and I have seen others say they are less likely to spend money at all when they see all of the slop on the store. There has been a lack of quality control on pretty much all of the virtual videogame storefronts for forever and it is only getting worse with generative AI so it baffles me that nothing has been done to prevent literal fake games, some that even rip off first party intellectual properties, from appearing on the store pages and being digital clutter. The fact that some of them even go up for sale, like the liar's bar rip offs. Insane...
I cannot recommend Commander Stephanie Sterling’s Jimquisition enough, but newbs should just skip the introductions full of running jokes unless you’re in the back archives.
I'm currently working on my own game, so i talk a lot with other small developers and holy sh%@ the amount of people who use AI art for their games and have directly told me they won't mark it as using AI on steam. People start making arguments like "how would they ever know" and "nobody cares if you're using ai" as if it's a discussion and not just them who's breaking terms of service. People know that there are backlash on games containing AI art but they still want free stuff so they just choose not to mark it when steam asks them to.
Stream Greenlight was a voting system to get game onto Steam, not a place for asset flips. When Steam opened up, they just allowed anyone to publish if they paid a nominal fee.
Speaking of indie games (good ones though), I recently played Paradise Killer. It’s so vapourware and made me think of you, so I’m glad that your next video was this, a video about indie games ^^
Have you seen the documentary I made on the making of Paradise Killer with the games developers? ruclips.net/video/xiHOt3nD3xQ/видео.htmlsi=w-5cFUbv20jErNNe
Recently had a debate with someone about AI. They were sharing AI-generated p0rn with a "who cares who made it? It's just porn!" attitude and their main stance was "stop demonizing AI, it's just a tool." I'll stop demonizing AI when people stop using AI to steal content/work from actually-creative people.
I think it's funny because even people looking for porn talk about filtering out AI from their results. Very few people want AI slop, but it's like litter, or air pollution, if you don't clean it up it gets everywhere.
Wasn't sure if I should say anything, but reading through the comments it seems I'm not too off topic. As a recovering bigot (or victim of religion, if you prefer)- I want to say you do look great 😊
1:20 You will do it if I want!? I want to see a Dead Domain / Some More News crossover episode, but until then I will just play this & the Cody's Showdy (Some More News) AI Media Sucks video from yesterday back to back to pretend that they are already collaborating.
It was cool to see this different sort of video because it's clear you're passionate about it! I remember when I was younger and really into animals I would scour the app store for shitty pet simulators in the same vein as these games, and they always kept me entertained for no more than a couple hours lol. They were so bare bones and limited, but they were also free (even if there were ads). I can't believe these developers are charging actual money for these games that honestly look worse from what I remember playing. And those obviously did not involve AI. It's truly insane just how quickly things have worsened, the future is indeed extremely worrying.
its insulting to me that a phenomenal indie game like COMPOUND ends up next to ai generated slop on the store. seriously, how in the seven hells does nobody at sony or nintendo or anything notice that this is a problem???
I really hope you see this, but I work for Sandbox VR, a virtual reality experience store that has over 50 locations all around the world. Our newest game Deadwood Phobia, a zombie game, uses a TON of ai generated slop. All videos: ai. All 2d art: ai. All mouth movements: the weird uncanny ai face filter. We are literally a multi million game studio and have deals with Netflix, but I guess they just can't pay their creative team :/
I miss the days of just putting a disc in the PS2 and just enjoying a single player,offline game. Just pop in Battlefront II or Lord of the Rings Return of the King and boom,quality gameplay without the racism,sexism,homophobia,politics,updates,DLCS,loot boxes,in game purchases,ect.
Laughed out loud at a lot of your descriptions in this one. And particularly hard at the comment about porn on Steam. Thank you! After listening to a few depressing bits of news today, it was much needed.
And unfortunately so many of those streamers and influencers are too preoccupied with culture war bs to actually be doing the work of “journalists” in the industry
It's nice seeing mini-docus on gaming, I really enjoyed this! Also hope you're doing well. Since I left Twitter haven't heard from you in ages, I follow you in bluesky
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It must be really frustrating for indie devs to have their hard work buried in slop. I hope the stores will eventually do something about that.
It's been over 15 years...
It’s terrifying how much it might be choking the market yet nobody notices or cares
For now it seems we have to rely on word-of-mouth and publicity.
If you find an indie game you like, please remember to tell others about it!
As someone who used to dig deep into indie/underground music, it's always been the case of finding the good in the gutter. after a while you start recognizing cues. S/o the old blog spaces but usually folks into indie have a good eye of recognizing labels. I imagine it's not much different when it comes to video games.
A lot of indie devs fled to the Switch Store in its early days, but even that one's drowning in slop now.
As a trans woman who spent the better part of her 30's as a transient person; several of those living on various disgusting couches, and nearly a year living in a tent on unincorporated land not too far off of a major highway, I think those 'homeless' simulators are the absolute height of disgusting game concepts to begin with... Not even counting how devastatingly bad those games are.
Now, we all know that the further right your politics are, the less ability to have any creative motive force in the ant farm that an alt-righter might call a 'brain'. Add in the game 'homeless simulator' and we start to see who is actually keeping these AI systems in business.
Mark my words, the lack of creative ability, the need to bully, and them pushing AI on everything, plus their insatiable thirst for fossil fuels, scams that burn more energy and promise to break physics, Elon Musk pomising people can die horribly on mars, and the religious right screaming from the pulpit about the end times and that this world is disposable,... These people WILL destroy the world eventually.
@@spacepirateivynova I would agree with you about creativity. The quality of art always suffers when it's done for money rather than love, and when it's made by people with little to no media literacy. And insatiable greed and poor media literacy tend to be far more common on the right!
Not if we hold strong. We have resonance and actual providence. Angels are assigned to work the couches and tents not the penthouses and country clubs. I love you and appreciate that you’ve seen people at their most exploitative and still hold light 🤘🏾. Also, you know I’m right.
These people have destroyed the world. This is what an apocalypse looks like.
If they knew how hard it was to survive on the streets (as a trans woman even!) and made a game that was a simulation of that experience, we might actually get some hearts changed and distribute some compassion. But no one wants to have that conversation.
When I found out about the "homeless simulator" genre of games my blood ran cold for a moment and then burned with fury! I can't believe someone could be so lacking in empathy and humanity that they could have the idea for that "game" and follow through in making it😒
As a graphic designer AI art has been absolutely unbearable and really affected how i work, i've been forced to use this chrome extension called 'Pre-AI Search' which literally just filters to searches before 2023 (lol) and its the only way i can actually get non-AI reference designs anymore. Can't even imagine what the internet and this industry will be like in a few years.
Is there a similar extension that works on Firefox? (I'm gonna look.)
You won't have a job in a few years 😅
@@sortaspicey9278 What will you be when you grow up?
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It's creepy and weird how much you guys delight in other people losing their livelihoods.
There's actually a fantastic blocklist by LaylaVish usable with extensions like uBlacklist that lets you browse modern results with much MUCH less AI
A friend of mine was one of the developers of Starwhal. It took over a year and a chance encounter at a convention to get it on Steam only for Valve to open the floodgates shortly after and bury all their hard work under a pile of trash made over a weekend.
YEP! If a game doesn’t have a GREAT marketing plan or just so happens to get played by someone with a platform, it’s basically doomed.
Oh! I’ve played starwhal. It’s a pretty fun couch game!
@marissa17489234 Nice. My friend designed the speed challenge levels.
I really want a career in art but in the rise of AI it's just going be harder than it is already. You're gorgeous as always
Awh thank you. And don’t give up your dreams because of AI, you’ll always be more valuable
It's becoming easier and easier to spot the people who are just abusing new technology to make a quick buck. You'll always stand out from them, and there will always be people who value what you do!
Please continue chasing after art. I was in your position, but I decided to do a degree in psychology and keep art as a core hobby of mine. If you want a career in art then continue head on! Market yourself in the future the way organic markets stand out in a market of mass-produced products or like a distinguished chef using local ressources in a market of cheap labor and food in modern restaurants. What I’m trying to say is that you will stand out if you keep honing your skills earnestly
Fr slaying in this one
@Cinnuh It's funny I always think about what it would have been like if I had been better at school and managed to pursue a degree in psychology or medicine. Instead I am studying media and art. I love it a lot, and I will work hard to make it, but I sometimes get the urge to positively impact the world more directly. We have a lack of psychologists here, so that job would make an impact.
On the other hand art is my life and I totally agree with you! To OP: Don't let AI and the greed of corporations get you down, if you work hard, you can achieve your goals in some way, just stay flexible and open!
Hmmm, strange, and here I was told in school that capitalism breeds innovation….
The scale of the problem is so so bad. My sister works for a toy and media company -- she will go to prestige amusement parks to make sure there's not counterfeiting or infringement going on. But she'll also go to shitty strip malls, and pawn shops... It's heinous that they just let games like these just ... fester.
Do you happen to know the job title? Also, how did she get the job? Sounds interesting
AI upscaling is also ruining movies that were previously not AI, like the True Lies AI upscale just makes the movie look weird and uncanny now
So you're saying when Star Wars used ai to put a younger version of Skywalker over another actors face that's lazy?
"they got porn on there... yeah! they got some good stuff"
We want your recs. Also, the delivery of that line was ULTRA
CUTE
Suuuper cute!
@@Jagonistdai very yes
I don’t think yall could handle my recs tbh 👀
@@deaddomain Churn Vector player spotted 👀👀
@@caffetiel So real, based game.
Looking at the bright side, these corporation AI's will make cyber security engineers and lawyers never be unemployed due to the sheer amount of problems generated by their own AI's
i can feel the rage behind this one
the other facet of AI that really annoys me is how it's kinda ruined google search. for some searches a good chunk of the articles are just AI slop that doesn't actually answer the question. this is especially bad with searches about CS topics, and it annoys me so much that i mostly use manpages or official documentation/specifications over google now.
it's just crazy that we've ruined the internet enough that sometimes the best way to learn about things is to learn about them the way we did before the internet.
Generative AI just ruins everything it touches
Yes omg the Google searches are especially wrecked by ai
I remember searching up the name of my favourite singer on Google and a lot of the photos were weird kinda s.×ual ai images of her that Barely even looked like her
There was this era of the App Store boom when almost everything on the "Games" pages would be Cocomelon levels of colorful and keywordy, because the whole point of the spam was to trick young children into buying garbage with their parents' credit cards. I think that might be what we're seeing here - a market of kids whose parents don't realize their Fortnite Machine can also charge their credit card.
YEP! They’ve clamped down a bit on the quality control side of things, but not nearly enough.
Watching this in the middle of the night fills me with some much anger towards AI again. For years now, I'm trying to publish my first novel. In the meantime, I'm publishing short novels in self-publishing and participate in writing competitions to harness my craft. So seeing all those news about "AI tech bros wanting to release 8000 AI books in 2025" and such fills me with so much dread and anger. In addition, my field of study - Japanese Studies - is also threatened by AI. You can't imagine how often I heard questions like "Translating Japanese? Do we still need that with AI?" or "What can you offer what AI can't in the future?" and it makes me just sad. Both things that give me a meaning in life are threatened by some tech bros and their lazy and uncreative ways. Sorry for the long vent (and also sorry, if my English isn't the best), but I'm angry and tired.
I still remember back when I discovered Artbreeder and thought, "This kind of thing is neat, I hope people don't ruin it with their greed and duplicity." I mean, I knew it was going to happen, it always does, but *yeesh* is this even more bleak than usual.
Is this what we can expect from Elon Musk's AI game studio?
No, it'll be worse.
Just wait until their legally distinct Stellar Blade, then we'll see what they're really made of
Oh god, imagine this but somehow worse.
Nah, it's way worse than that, I'm kinda concerned about all this ai bs of Elon Musk.
@@KaiganGhost THE GOONTRIX
I would argue that AI "art" is art that has been stolen. Someone's creativity and effort did go into the work that the AI is being trained on without the original artist's consent. Maybe that's pedantic, because I think in spirit we actually agree. :)
Ok but can we just address how great you look- your makeup brings out your eyes and lips, and your hair tied back with that neckline elongates your elegant neck. I just had to say something✨️
Awh thank you so much! I was very happy after my most recent hair appointment, I’m glad it translated well to camera
These AI slop games are out of control!! It’s so frustrating trying to look for a new switch game on sale when they have a billion supermarket simulator DX and hentai paradise puzzle games everywhere!
I barely touch on it here because they’re just worthless, but the sheer GLUT of hentai garbage anime asset flips are astounding.
"It's like 2 Girls 1 Cup, if the girls were Superman 64 and Ride to Hell: Retribution."
Jordan. Oh my God. I almost fell off the couch laughing. 😆😆😆
Also, I love that you mentioned Steph Sterling, brought up the execrable Gilson B. Pontes, and watching you talk about how shitty the games were as you showed footage gave me Caddicarus vibes. This was a delightful cross-pollination of stuff I'm interested in.
Thank you so much! That's a pretty good summation :) I really want to do more content like this because it lets me be slightly more lighthearted, so the support is really important ❤️
@deaddomain I get that it's pretty heavy, psychologically, to do a lot of stuff about politics and queerphobia and white supremacy and shit. I appreciate that you do that, but I also know it's *exhausting,* so I'm happy to watch somewhat more frivolous stuff from you. You're entertaining no matter what!
@@deaddomainI love all of this. 😊
I'm worried that the AI slop trend won't die out suddenly like the NFTs did because it seems to be much easier for corporations to get away with using it. You get the occasional massive backlash, but the sad reality is that a lot of people both on and offline just don't really care enough. And that's not even getting into all the scams that you've talked about here and more. I really hope that I get proven wrong on this eventually. I would be happy to be wrong.
Don't worry, NFT's didn't actually die out, people just collectively stopped being upset about it. Eventually AI will be the same way. The folks that enjoy, like, and make use of it will continue to do so, and the rest of you will go on living your lives until the next thing to get upset about comes along.
@@_B_E let me gues.s.. Your are a Lambo owner?
It doesn't help that the public at large has been subject to decades of media and speculation about future technology framing AI as an inevitable and useful tool. Sure there's also been a ton of media about an AI singularity framing AI as a bad thing, but even in those stories AI is framed as being on an unalterable trajectory towards advancement and being good at its job. Meanwhile, the reality is AI is just a tool for money hoarders to flood our world with cheap shitty nonsense for no other purpose than milking money while doing absolutely no work or contributing anything to society.
@_B_E found the sad soulless tech bro
@ calling me names won't un-AI the internet ❤
4:23 ah yes the certified hood classic, The Slaughtering Grounds
*The Jimquisition intensifies*
AI is rich people accessing talent, while denying talented people access to riches
I never heard of Gilson B Pontes before, but I'm like 99% sure he's Brazilian (so it's probably pronounced "Jilson"). Guys like him are kind of a running joke among game devs here because there are a lot of them. Brazil has a pretty big gaming market, but for economic reasons we still don't have a solid game dev industry. A lot of people think we need to catch up with international AAA studios so they make these insanely ambitious projects with a fraction of the necessary resources and just try their best to convince people it's a serious product.
In college I met a group of 4 people trying to make "Brazilian Persona", but there's also a "Brazilian GTA" in development for over 8 years now, a "Brazilian Dragon Age", etc. It comes from a good place of wanting our games to be respected in the same way that international games are, but they just really miss the mark. The best games to come from Brazil usually lean into the indie aspect and know how to use the resources they have.
The look is low key giving Astarion, I’m living for it
Awhhh shucks thank ya
Art involves trial and error. Art involves decisions, thought, creativity and a desire to bring an idea to life. A machine, nay, a _program,_ cannot do so. Generative 'AI', and I use the term loosely, is not a 'who'. It is a 'what'. To call it Artificial Intelligence insults the concept. C-3PO is an Artificial Intelligence. Data from Star Trek is an Artificial Intelligence. Hal 9000 is an Artificial Intelligence. These programs are just designed to pump out cheap slop like those artificial Krabby Patties from that one Spongebob episode.
Art requires living a life.
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 Also true.
I have three plausible theories for how/why Gilson B Pontes ever made it onto the PSN market:
- he's the son/nephew of a high-ranking Sony Brazil executive
- it's a money-laundering front for a Brazilian criminal organisation
- Gilson "himself" is one of the earliest examples of a "sentient" AI trained on Japanese game devs, cobbling together Unity assets in a vain attempt of the "monkeys with typewriters will eventually create Shakespeare" trial-and-error production method
Any and all attempts to even figure out who Gilson B Pontes is, if they're real or not, often ends nowhere or people who apparently know more about Gilson show up and warn them to not look any further.
Why all this mystery... 🤔
It feels like either #1 or #2 for Gilson. It's a bit too polished for AI alone, but terrible enough that it wouldn't be worth the $25+ a copy.
AI is part of the reason I know I'll never do freelance writing again. It also takes up like 90% of my Pinterest feed and Google Images searches too. I really wish they made it easier to filter it out.
I know what you mean, it’s completely taken over.
1:30
How DARE you assault me with kisses... more please. Thank you.
I knew the AI Slop infestation was bad on Switch's eShop but I didn't know the PS5 was just as bad...
Ohhh it’s unbelievable. It’s continued getting worse even since I recorded this footage months ago.
First thing I noticed on the PS5 shop lol
Its start on xbox too some bad AI "game" every weak buy the same "studio"
coupled with nintendo's eshop being sooooo laggy, it's unbearable scrolling through 80% AI games on that app.
It's like each console is having a "who can get the most AI games" contest and no one's winning.
The people hurt most by this are the casual consumer. Hapless children browsing the storefront, adults not connected to the gaming community and not receiving recommendations.
squirty play is far and away my favourite let's play series, also ai shovelware titles releasing "collectors editions" is cracking me up
Oh yeah, I watched a TON of those videos during my Game Informer intern days. Good times.
Out of topic but this look is so preeeetty
Thank youuu :3
Right?! Stunning 💅🏻✨
FR, i clicked and i got jumpscared by how pretty DD is in this one, they cooked and they cooked hard
@@cmdrvaneia1498Awh stop it yall are making me blush
Jordan, you look positively fucking ETHEREAL here!
Thanks for tackling this topic, it's one I ruminate on all too often.
Since you mentioned pr0n, I recently found a channel called Sex Positive Gaming that specifically covers that kind of content. I'm too vanilla to explore that subculture much, but I love that it is there for those that are interested!
Ooh! I’ll have to check that out, that sounds right in my wheelhouse
Sounds like the worst of the Roblox Devs escaped when they got old enough to graduate out of it
Thanks!
Omg thank you so much! It’s very appreciated right now
So screwed up how digital pollution has accumulated everywhere so fast trying to drown us all nearly everywhere we look.
1:25 - Awww....Know that you mean a lot to me and all of us all the same. Appreciate everything you do and you just being you. So please keep being you.
Never been a better time to live offline
No because the Switch eshop has SUCH a problem with this omfg the way the eshop is built is a problem of its own but omgg if I have to see another ai "dating sim" with some shit golf game in the background I'm gonna freakkk
It’s entirely unusable at this point. You either search for exactly what you want or just don’t bother lol
Love the Steph Sterling shout out!
Love their channel!
@29:50 really nails it, especially considering the game creators intentionally working in a grungy/ms-paint/trashcore aesthetic.
Please don't get hurt at the inauguration. I wouldn't even risk it, personally. It just sounds really dangerous.
OpenAI actually called people who use anti-AI tools "abusers". All they're doing is trying to protect their artwork! Sam Altman can piss off. The only ones who will benefit from AI is big corps, not us. That's the only reason it's being pushed.
Love the consistent use of dead rising music across ur videos
Another day in our speedrun to the dark age of technology...
Hope things have been as well as they can be. Its a treat to get some gaming stuff from you (not that I dislike your current usual stuff), thanks as always!
Thank you for watching! I’m always glad to share a bit of gaming content.
This is such a great merging of the types of content you do on this channel. I hope this video does well and I'm doing my part by liking and sharing.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the support on this one 👍
4:15 DONT YOU DARE BAD MOUTH BIG RIGS! IT IS AN EXCELENT GAME AND DESERVES GOTY 100%! I MEAN HAVE YOU TRIED DRIVING BACKWARDS IN THAT GAME! THERES NO SPEED CAP IF YOU DRIVE IN REVERSE! THE MAYHEM IS AMAZING!
also, lookin gorgeous today, love the hair
Awh thank you so much! Just got it done in time for the DC trip 😌
15:16 lol he looks like he's from a Tekken 2 ending fmv
Stores need curation. That's the point of a store.
This all reminds me of the Digital Homicide debacle almost a decade ago now, who infamously tried to sue Stephanie Sterling - then Jim Sterling - with a whole lot of story surrounding that, which i won't go into too much here.
Why doesn't Sony not do anything about these scam games and purge them from the PlayStation Store? Thsy actively harm genuine, honest and hardworking indie developers who are unable to get much visibility on Sony's digital storefront, often unable to afford extensive, lavish marketing like large AAA developers and publishers can.
This is whst happens when game development is democratised and made more easier to do by a small team or even just a single person, it is a double edge sword: You either get fantastic gems like Animal Well and Sea of Stars, both fantastic indie games I high recommend to anyone. But you also get merde like these AI Art asset flips and Life of Black Tiger.
I think the reason why Sony ignores it is that MBA's are only trained to think in the short term, so they ignore long term costs and consequences that come from the reputation and lost sales caused by all this slop. Because as far as they're concerned a sale is a sale and besides, "only the big releases matter".
@The_Mess85 Maybe it explains some things, but I refuse to believe that this will not have longer term consequences for user engagement and satisfaction, as well as the relationships with genuine indie developers.
AI Art is not art, but your face is! You look BEAUTIFUL
Aw, thanks! I try to keep it relatively presentable when I’m talking about video games lol
One of the worst offenders on the Switch at least is a company called Aldora games whose games get pumped out like there's no tomorrow, absolutely flooding the eshop. And they're all completely AI-generated visual novels that clearly steal from companies like Disney to a degree I'm surprised they haven't been sued yet.
I just love we're burning the planet to the ground for this. Why should I eat healthy when the world will end before I'm 50 for such quality content?
Honestly I’ve had many MANY of these thoughts in recent days.
I couldn't help noticing that he put "Lightning Supervisor" lmfao
He’s operating on a frequency most of us couldn’t begin to comprehend
It reminds me of Digital Homicide Studios owned by the Romine Brothers out of Arizona. I wouldn't be surprised if some of could be the Romines right to and including the asset flipping tendency. As in it's the quality of Romine made games, it's the software used by the Romines and given the behavior of the Romines, the only things new would be marketing tactics such as using attractive women to market the games and AI (which obviously they'd probably love to use as asset flippers).
Honestly I wouldn’t be too surprised if they dipper their toes into this garbage pile
I wanna blame a lot of people... The DOOM community also had a similar problem with SLIGE and OBLIGE making absurd amounts of randomly generated levels flooding the forums. And DOOMWORLD doesn't have a trillion dollars.
1:30 This. THIS. INJECT THIS INTO MY BLOODSTREAM RAHHHHHH.
God I remember the shovelware epidemic of the Wii and WiiU.
Ohhh it’s arguably worse now
@@deaddomain Your video definitely proves it
17:00 You can see the Trophies in offline mode. This happens when Sony forgets to publish the Trophy Pack to their cloud servers. It's been an issue with other games too.
I clap my hands and balance a ball on my nose like a seal whenever a video game based dead domain video comes out
:3
I might have no talent, but I'm writing my slop the old fashion way! By pushing keys to make words on a screen.
The old way is sometimes the best way!
1:30 Holy tingles. It's nice to feel loved.
'Lightning Supervisor' Gilson B Pontes. Lmao!
It's even worse for phone games. There are so many slop thumbnails and obvious rip-offs of more successful games. Even a few games that I played in the past have started changing their icons to redesigns obviously made using AI. It's disappointing and annoying.
God I wish there were literally any safeguards from this slip taking over everything
I would love to see more journalism from you, your work is quality!
Thank you! I’m hoping to get to more stuff like this soon!
this is the first video ive seen of yours and im absolutely in love with your humor and video style. time to watch every video ive missed :]
Welcome to the rabbit hole! You're in for a treat.
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It's really cool listening to you talk games as you're so knowledgeable and passionate about them. I've been going back through your old gaming content and really enjoying it too. I'd be happy to see more videos like this as well.
Thanks for checking out my older stuff! I’m planning on doing more stuff like this!
Thank you for spreading some awareness on this. I haven't seen enough people talk about this. Not only is this bad for indie devs but it's also bad for major publishers and the console companies because my virtual shop experience has been tainted and I have seen others say they are less likely to spend money at all when they see all of the slop on the store. There has been a lack of quality control on pretty much all of the virtual videogame storefronts for forever and it is only getting worse with generative AI so it baffles me that nothing has been done to prevent literal fake games, some that even rip off first party intellectual properties, from appearing on the store pages and being digital clutter. The fact that some of them even go up for sale, like the liar's bar rip offs. Insane...
I cannot recommend Commander Stephanie Sterling’s Jimquisition enough, but newbs should just skip the introductions full of running jokes unless you’re in the back archives.
I'm currently working on my own game, so i talk a lot with other small developers and holy sh%@ the amount of people who use AI art for their games and have directly told me they won't mark it as using AI on steam.
People start making arguments like "how would they ever know" and "nobody cares if you're using ai" as if it's a discussion and not just them who's breaking terms of service.
People know that there are backlash on games containing AI art but they still want free stuff so they just choose not to mark it when steam asks them to.
Your ability to turn a complex topic into something actionable is inspiring. This video proves that the key to success is continuous learning.
Awh thank you so much! I'm glad people are finding it helpful 😊
Stream Greenlight was a voting system to get game onto Steam, not a place for asset flips. When Steam opened up, they just allowed anyone to publish if they paid a nominal fee.
Speaking of indie games (good ones though), I recently played Paradise Killer. It’s so vapourware and made me think of you, so I’m glad that your next video was this, a video about indie games ^^
Have you seen the documentary I made on the making of Paradise Killer with the games developers?
ruclips.net/video/xiHOt3nD3xQ/видео.htmlsi=w-5cFUbv20jErNNe
@ I haven’t! I’ll definitely have to watch that when I’m more awake ❤️
It’s not one that got a lot of eyes on it, but it’s one of my favorites so I hope you enjoy it!
Recently had a debate with someone about AI. They were sharing AI-generated p0rn with a "who cares who made it? It's just porn!" attitude and their main stance was "stop demonizing AI, it's just a tool."
I'll stop demonizing AI when people stop using AI to steal content/work from actually-creative people.
I think it's funny because even people looking for porn talk about filtering out AI from their results.
Very few people want AI slop, but it's like litter, or air pollution, if you don't clean it up it gets everywhere.
Wasn't sure if I should say anything, but reading through the comments it seems I'm not too off topic. As a recovering bigot (or victim of religion, if you prefer)- I want to say you do look great 😊
Awh thank you ☺️
Commenting for engagement, keep up the great work DD!
Thank you for commenting for engagement! It actually does help lol.
1:20 You will do it if I want!?
I want to see a Dead Domain / Some More News crossover episode, but until then I will just play this & the Cody's Showdy (Some More News) AI Media Sucks video from yesterday back to back to pretend that they are already collaborating.
Awh thanks! Feel free to bother them about it on social media.
I'm playing a "found object and slide puzzle" game on my chair right now
Good work as always Jordan!
Thank you so much ☺️
Thank you sincerely for your work, I'm also a content creator and wasn't aware of any of this before watching the video.
You're very welcome! Thank you for watching and commenting 💕
Yet another blow to consumers brought to you by capitalism
Is this the year we get a Dead Domain and Jauwn crossover?
You should make more stuff like this. Did a really good job. I loved the video
It was cool to see this different sort of video because it's clear you're passionate about it! I remember when I was younger and really into animals I would scour the app store for shitty pet simulators in the same vein as these games, and they always kept me entertained for no more than a couple hours lol. They were so bare bones and limited, but they were also free (even if there were ads). I can't believe these developers are charging actual money for these games that honestly look worse from what I remember playing. And those obviously did not involve AI.
It's truly insane just how quickly things have worsened, the future is indeed extremely worrying.
It is truly crazy how fast technology has moved in the worst possible direction.
About as fast as a snail overdosing on keta mine sent me 💀
Omg ps1 game stillbirth 😂 my god that’s the best description anybody could have
I generally do pretty ok 😌
@ you crush it! ☺️ I’m mad I haven’t found your channel sooner but glad I’m here! 💜
video game crash videdogame crahs video game market crash i want it to crash pleease i am beggin you crash the games again i love the 80s
I can only imagine that playing one of these nightmarish monstrosities would fill me with existential dread.
i'm glad my boy Gilson is finally getting the recognition he deserves 😤
its insulting to me that a phenomenal indie game like COMPOUND ends up next to ai generated slop on the store. seriously, how in the seven hells does nobody at sony or nintendo or anything notice that this is a problem???
YEP! I’m so curious how it’s just…allowed to keep happening
I really hope you see this, but I work for Sandbox VR, a virtual reality experience store that has over 50 locations all around the world. Our newest game Deadwood Phobia, a zombie game, uses a TON of ai generated slop. All videos: ai. All 2d art: ai. All mouth movements: the weird uncanny ai face filter.
We are literally a multi million game studio and have deals with Netflix, but I guess they just can't pay their creative team :/
Also, did a little research and the founder of the company has a dumb ai image of himself as his pfp
Gilson B Pontis is a pioneer, managing to make AI slop before AI slop was a thing
In some ways it’s almost impressive
I miss the days of just putting a disc in the PS2 and just enjoying a single player,offline game.
Just pop in Battlefront II or Lord of the Rings Return of the King and boom,quality gameplay without the racism,sexism,homophobia,politics,updates,DLCS,loot boxes,in game purchases,ect.
tbf all or most games have politics or political ideas in it somewhere or influended by it in some way art is never made in a vacuum
@@stephanos6128 I assume OP was referring to the neo-Nazi requiters that prowl online games.
I thought Nintendo DS had the worst shovelware problem. I stand corrected
Oh DS was LEGENDARY, but it’s not quite that bad.
we gotta stop the slop 🙏
Laughed out loud at a lot of your descriptions in this one. And particularly hard at the comment about porn on Steam. Thank you! After listening to a few depressing bits of news today, it was much needed.
Thank you! This was a nice reprieve to work on after some of my more dark/serious projects
Off topic but your outfit and makeup is absolutely gorgeous. ❤
Thank you so much! 🥰
Neural Networks in gaming reward systems are off the charts 📈 this is why one can get paid by either taking surveys (convict slave wages) or gaming
Poor actually talented indie game devs...Their only hope is streamers/youtubers to push their work to the masses
And unfortunately so many of those streamers and influencers are too preoccupied with culture war bs to actually be doing the work of “journalists” in the industry
It's nice seeing mini-docus on gaming, I really enjoyed this! Also hope you're doing well. Since I left Twitter haven't heard from you in ages, I follow you in bluesky
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
0:58 bruh james cameron of all people should not be for AI....mannn
Yeah you might think so but…😭
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