Generative algorithms could literally be made to work better than ANY CEO via training it on worker votes. This won't happen, but the technology is damn near there.
@@robertsimpson8292yeah, the capitalist ruling class would kill most of the working class before willingly let us implement actual democracy. Bourgeois electoral politics is democracy for the wealthy only, and they sure as shit don't want democracy in the workplace. They can't let the working class gain class consciousness! That leads to icky, scary, evil SoCiALiSm!!
This guy came out on stage at FFXIV JP fanfestival and while the crowd was polite, chat on the livestream absolutely was *not* and frankly, all for it. Godspeed random hecklers in a stream chat who got whacked by the mods immediately anyway, he deserves little else.
Amazing how the energy switched when he appeared. There's a reason there was such a good response to Yoshi P saying "dawntrail will release on ffxivs schedule not square enix's"
@@thomasderosso5625I do think that XIV is a fantastic MMO generally, but its monetary structure might be one of the worst out there. Pay up front, pay monthly, AND pay for premium items all at once.
@@MasoTrumoi Not really. The have a subscription model, yes. But they have a discounted subscription for people that only play 1 char anyway and only for one month. Also, the whole game structure heavily encourages going at your pace - that means also taking breaks. And you can very well take breaks between patches without missing out on much. The only thing that basically has you chained to a subscription is in game housing. And even that is limited to 1 login every 45 days or so, so you can just take a month off between that. Compared to non subscription MMOs like GW2? Which shove premium sales and microtransactions in your face 24/7 tostay profitable? With time limits that push FOMO, especially in conjunction with lootboxes? You spend so much less on XIV. If you just compare average numbers, a subscription is not such an outlandish cost you make it out to be. Because "Free" players are a myth. Everyone caves to a microtransaction someday. Oh, also on the point of "premium items". XIV is only cosmetics and extras not needed in the game. The exclusive content is reduced to mount skins (and tbh you can get nicer ones ingame), some glam items or emotes (because they got designed by the korean branch and therefore are not fully SE property - hence they can't just give them for free) and lastly past event items. Granted, I'd like having old event stuff ingame as well. But events always have a new story every year, so having past rewards for the story you didn't do does feel a bit off. Still, if you log in and play for like 30 minutes on an event, you earn those items absolutely free of charge. Not like with games like Temtem where you get jackshit without even buying a pass. Or grinding for a week. Like, I dunno what else to tell you. If you think XIV is bad, you ignore 99.9% of games that are factually worse. That is an opinion one can have, but maybe not the best.
@@MasoTrumoi I mean, none of those premium items are even remotely pay to win (frankly, only the Febnrir SDS gives any kind of actual game advantage, and that's just "a tiny bit faster mount") but your mileage may vary on whether that makes a difference to you
@@ohnosmoarlulcatz They were doing just fine. FF14 prints money for them. They sold their entire western gaming division in order to double down on techbro snake oil like NFTs and AI and specifically said so.
Money making corporation whose game development teams are named "Creative Business Unit" 1-3 who exists to make money making money moves is apparently some kind of shock
AI has three fundamental issues it cannot overcome, at least not how it currently exists: 1) Its ability to produce content is dependent on its ability to steal other people's intellectual property without paying for it. 2) It costs way, way more for AI to function than people realize, and the entire business model is currently sustained by venture capital. 3) AI's best use (in terms of efficacy) is to replace executives at companies, since what it most excels at is making data-driven decisions, but for obvious reasons executives are not eager to adopt the technology in a way that would make *them* obsolete.
i was going to make an argument about how 3) isn't even correct because much of data-driven jobs also requires the human element of sometimes checking in when something is wrong, never quite trusting the computer to do it all right, etc (Rowan Ellis made a great video about this); but then I realised that even with current CEOs the human element is practically nonexistent, so it really wouldn't make much of a difference
Final Fantasy XVI? "More like *_Final Game of Devil Thrones May Fantasy Cry XVI,_* am I right?" Remember back in the day, when Final Fantasy was being the *trendsetter* rather than the late _trendfollower?_
Problem is, AI actually has solid ground beneath it. That is NOT a good thing. Bitcoin and NFTs are doomed to fail simply because they're as empty as their promises. There's nothing solid or substantial backing them outside of whoever's influential right now. AI, on the other hand, is the stuff we've already been using FOR YEARS. The unfortunate part is that someone was bound to come along eventually and teach it to "create". It was inevitable. Worse still, companies will jump on this because it could potentially save them hundreds of thousands of dollars on labor, their mindset being, "Why pay a department of people to do a job when a computer can do it just as good/better". It's edging us even closer to a dystopian future where the common rabble kill themselves over scraps while the elite sit in their ivory towers and profit.
What you talking about brother I put all my money into NFT which has now netted me negative money in the fiat which the gubment can’t tax cause it’s non fungible. What they gonna do put a lien on my ape, they ain’t putting no lien on my ape brother
@@MrCrunchytime AI doesn't actually create though, it steals and repurposes. Every pixel in an AI-generated image or sentence in AI-generated text was already created by a human. The fact AI image generators were trained on child porn is just the next big issue, Government law agencies should be serving search warrants on the companies that scraped the next and built databases of stolen content simply to shut them down for having Child porn in their databases. I am glad companies are working on things like Nightshade to poison AI databases and kill its ability to generate stolen content.
@@MrCrunchytime No they do not. The kinds of AI these companies want has nothing at all to do with the useful stuff AI can do to streamline a workflow or let people do something that used to be complex and expensive in a way that is now approachable. No, they just want to be able to fire every one and have the robots do all the stuff for them. Also, explain to me the mythical business plan of AI start ups. I'll wait. It's another hype driven tech bro nightmare that's propped up by investors with no plan beyond hoping people just sit down and accept it so these companies can continue to exist. No one's going to find AI neat when 30% of the work force is suddenly unemployed. You know how much politicians love to flex low unemployment? AI will be dead the minute that shit hit's the political fan.
The people behind this wall of corpo-speak are so detached from reality that they have no clue what happens to an economy built on consumption when there's no one left in it with any resources left with which to use to *consume with*
@@vxicepickxv That's great. That doesn't solve the problem for them. They NEED PEOPLE TO BUY THERE SHIT. Funding cops to smash protests isn't going to get funds into peoples hands to buy the stuff these companies need them to buy.
It's because those people are paid by the hyper-rich, who have become so wealthy that money has become an abstract scoreboard for them, and so now they just want to get all of it so that they "win".
The letter was so canned, full of buzz words and corporate shortsightedness that it might as well be. Its so formulaic that it doesn't sound human or in contact with their public. Maybe Kiryu is following in Android Wilson's footsteps, trying to become a brain in a cybernetic frame.
I'd put money on Kiryu being completely generated by AI- the proportions of his face look slightly off and he has that glossy, hyperreal texture you get with AI artwork. We just need to get a proper look at his hands to know for sure...
They did. Do a Google search for "Business insider 70% middle-class jobs automation". You'll find an article about a study that found 70% of middle-class jobs were lost to automation and not outsourcing like was previously thought. If you want to see a specific example look up how the steam controller was built. They literally just poured parts into a machine and out came steam controllers. Or if all the videos about applesauce factories where they pour apples in on one end and on the other end comes out boxes of applesauce. If you look into it you're going to find a huge rise of gig economy jobs which are low-paying shit jobs. Nobody works those jobs if they have something better lined up they just don't because we've done so much automation and the value of that automation isn't getting spread around because that's kind of how capitalism works whoever owns the capital gets the money Meanwhile companies don't particularly care if they have fewer customers because they can just raise prices on the remaining customers. Sort of like how the king didn't particularly care if they had customers. We have massive problems with automation we're just not recognizing it.
Greed got in the way, sweatshop labor is way cheaper than robots. Also the tech was shit, or too expensive for most industries not in the car making business. There a shitload of manufacturing that got automated regardless. @@Lectrikfro
i mean they used lobster claws in the bethesda is bethetic video, so im not surprised theres a mask can we get a post transition remaster of bethesda is bethetic pls steph?
What is frustrating about ai is that it could be used to automate away a lot of tedious technical aspects of art, stuff like retopology for sculpted models, adding secondary movement in animations (see cascadeur) and many more things, but instead the use cases being explored is a method to completely remove artists at all. Lastly AI should be a great thing heralding a new age where we all don’t have to work as hard, but nope, we live in a world dominated by capitalism, so only the people at the top will see true gains from this tech.
Yep it endlessly frustrates me. Cause there are ethical and useful ways to use ai and then they just do it make cheap soulless looking art and say oh we don't need artists now.
Another issue is that despite those applications being promising, it's also the grunt work that new workers cut their teeth on in order to develop their own skills and to form connections. AI will not replace artists, but it will make more overworked artists while making being a new artist even more competitive. Of course, this wouldn't be an issue if capitalism wasn't purely about the bottom line of profit over people, but it's the system in place right now.
Yeah. Its such a cool technology and concept but being made and defended by terrible people who seem to fundamentally not understand what it is they're talking about. They say things like "it's just inspired like humans are" or "its learning like people are, if thats illegal, so is learning to draw by looking at copyrighted material". And like, do they not know how the generative AI works? It doesn't work even vaguely similar to a human artist. Its a denoiser. You can get it to generate the process for you to look at, and you can see how it works, and its alien, mechanical, and nothing at all like how a human would do it. To anthropomorphise for the sake of brevity, it doesn't know its generating something, it thinks you've given it the image already and its just cleaning the noise off. You hand it some noise and tell it its a banana, and it cleans up the picture of the banana you gave it. It didn't draw a banana. It pulled a banana out of the noise. Which is fundamentally, by design, a banana based on the training data. You can sometimes even spot the exact banana image it copied. Midjourney is reproducing specific artworks completely unaltered right now. I used to be pro AI, and the thing that made me change my tune is that StableDiffusion kept generating images with the same couch in it. This couch turned out to be a direct 1 to 1 copy of a couch from the training data. And this wasn't a bug, this couch wasn't oversaturated in the data, the couch shows up exactly once in the data, but for whatever reason it would turn up, again and again, completely unaltered. It had a bit of fabric hanging off of it, and the colour of the fabric and couch cushions would change, but every shadow, crease, fold, and speck of dirt would show up, pixel perfect. This coupled with knowing how it actually works, made it clear to me that generative AI is just copying the training data with extra steps. Thats literally how it works. If you haven't given it enough training data to copy, it creates warped or terrible results. It constantly copies layouts in particular, where it will use the layout something specific from the training data, but fill in the details with a pastiche of other images. This is fundamentally how it works. And thats okay, theres nothing inherently wrong with turning a de-noiser into an image generator. The problem is the plagiarism and attempting to use it to destroy the livelihoods of the very people its plagiarising. I have no ethical qualms about people using AI to make shitposts, for the same reason I have no issues with people using any other content to make shitposts. Hell, I don't even really have a problem with people using it as a tool in a workflow where they do significant transformative work to the output. Though thats a bit ethically shaky and subjective. But the AI bro's went immediately for the shittiest possible way to use it and don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Its so annoying.
@@fluidthought42Also, will make humans worse at these jobs with time, we will stop learning these skills and will become more and more dependent on technology to the most basic stuff.
@@bluester7177 I'm not sure I agree with this assertion in that being a bad thing per se. It's not like frame by frame rotoscoping is a lost art, it's very much still in practice in doe regards, nor is it's loss truly all that terrible, indeed algorithmic in-betweening is already a thing in digital animation. The problem is that we don't have systems in place to train new artists outside of the easily automated busywork, and that's exacerbated by capitalistic conditions making creative lifestyles hard to sustain in a healthy way. If people didn't need to labor to survive, if we had systems in place to train new artists, if we didn't have corporations that prioritized profit over people... Well then AI wouldn't really be a problem at all eh? But alas, we can't get there sooner than AI will get here, so we have to agitate for worker control. Unions especially will be key to this fight.
While I am worried about what the future of many workers will be like, due to AI, I am relieved that my particular line of work will never be affected by it. See, I work in the Customer Support industry, and if there's one message we get told repeatedly, and with varying degrees of frustration, is that when people want customer support, they do *NOT* want to talk to a robot. You can't hurt a robot's feelings after all :(
Aah a fellow sufferer in the pits of custumer support. For me, it's IT support. And GOD is my company trying and trying to push to replace us with AI. We literally got new metrics last year that measure how well we train our GenAI tools. But you are absolutely correct. Most Germans don't speak English and most Germans are pretty technologically illiterate. Many are already overwhelmed by a simple voice input menu when they call a hotline. While i think my job will be become much less pleasant in the next years, just going by the "oh god, finally I'm talking to a human!" reactions i get every day, i hope and think we'll be fine. IF companies don't decide to say fuck it and fire us anyway and what are customers gonna do? Go to a competitor who ALSO replaced their customer support with AI?
In reality it's true for most fields that nobody wants what they get as a service to be made by an AI. Why on earth would you want an audiobook read by a robot instead of like, an actual human being with emotions and their own inflection? Heck, you don't even want software to be made by chatGPT so that it one day just randomly forgets that your microwave isn't supposed to turn on when the door isn't closed. This tech is not good, or reliable or creative enough to do the vast majority of the things executives and charlatans alike are creaming their pants thinking it can do. But this isn't a technological revolution by any means. AI didn't pop into existence a year ago. What has changed is the overt willingness by these executives to openly say and show that their goal is to replace as many people as possible with this shitty technology. Take for example duolingo. We got automated translation for decades now. But what changed is that 2023 CEOs feel confident that they can get away with replacing most of the translators with AI and have the remaining ones there to 'review' what the AI makes. Note that in reality what this means is that the remaining translators are doing the same amount of work as a higher number of translators were doing, except that now the executives can claim that the "AI" is doing the work and the human translators are just "reviewing" it . There's nothing new in 2023 about translation technology. The 'innovation' is coming from ways in which the capitalist class are coming up with ways to use it as an excuse to stop paying people for work. But the good thing is that much like NFTs, this is going to collapse on its own weight. The translation work done by a reduced amount of translators + some dumb computer translation is going to suck. The customer support bots are going to make customers angry. The automatically plagiarized art has to look like shit in order to obfuscate its human work. And the code generated from chatGPT has a much higher error rate than normal code and will create so many errors that will need actual skilled labor to be fixed. This is going to collapse. The only problem is that for a year or two we are going to keep seeing a lot of attempts to exploit people while the fever lasts.
It doesn't matter what the people want. Watching the whole roll out of AI, I'm not sure why you still think that matters. As you seem to be aware of, companies have been trying to eliminate humanity from the support end since long before the AI craze.
@@Tetsaga Similar, not identical. A robot cannot match a person on a 1-to-1 ratio. And sadly, a big chunk of the customers who call customer support are looking for a punching bag to verbally abuse. Verbally abusing a bot doesn't yield them the same satisfaction that comes with abusing a living thinking feeling human being.
The opening part about COVID really has that "inflation is the fault of governments because they made us do the minimum of COVID precautions and that cost us money" vibe that we love to hear.
"It's not *our* fault that we pay the majority of our employees poverty-line wages and demand their output exceed reasonable levels while simultaneously raising prices on all of our products and laying off anyone we deem as 'too expensive' in an effort to keep up the charade of 'infinite growth' to our shareholders/board members! Blame the government for being too liberal!"
Not forgetting Magic The Gathering used an AI generated picture as a marketing post, then doubled down that it wasn't AI at all. Then people called out the fact that items in the picture weren't joined correctly. The Ai got confused as it does and just "did it's best" . Then after that MG people went away obviously had a meeting about it and then posted their update.. They confirmed the image was (after stating AI has no business in their business previously) AI generated but then blamed it on the vendor who supplied it. Oh and Wacom (however it's spelt, the artist tablet people) after also saying they were against it, used an AI generated image for their marketing as well. Calum Upton here on YT did a good video on it over the weekend.
Always a massive double-take from corporations around IP. Creating it is worthless, once it is created it is priceless. Therefore I want AI to create it for free and will pursue anyone I think is using it for free.
I don't think AI will entirely go away because there are ethical ways of doing ai unlike nfts but I sure hope they stop trying to use it to replace artists and writers
@@yourlocalnerd7788 True - there's things AI can do that are good and ethical. I honestly think the current thing is just a scramble for cash before copyright law cracks down.
I think there will be a bust in AI like there was for VR. Meaning it won't go away and there will be a core audience that pays attention to it, but it will very much be a cooler market with a bunch of companies closing doors and even bigger ones having to rebuild stuff up. Most AI companies aren't even profitable, despite having the world's hottest tech they aren't even breaking even. Which makes sense tbh, lots of them are working on the "enshittefication" model of offering free tastes now and then hiking up the price later when it's time to play as real grown ups with real need for real money instead of speculative investor monopoly money. Honestly most of these AI (or rather, machine learning models) firms would be insanely profitable... if they did porn. Coomer brain is essentially identical to an addicts, and they would spend unhealthy amounts of money to maintain an artificial relationship.
@@fluidthought42 that literally did happened with the porn thing for a while. There was this whole thing with replika where they were being advertised as sex partners for a while and then the service got taken away because the company didn't like how it made them look (also I've heard some claims that some of the men were verbally abusing the replicas but don't know how true that is. Obviously it's not a person but still concerning). When they were advertising their paid service for "sexy pictures" the ads were inescapable on yotube.
I guess my chosen grandma didn't get the memo that corona is over since she died of covid just before the holidays. So glad all regulations are over, had a lovely time crying in the dinner table 🙂
@@JustForGaming_Alt-kf8lz It can tho. One of the best uses of chat bot is to bounce ides off of it to get to something you wouldn't ever think of on your own, or at least speed up the process.
@@VixYW Go actually get chatgpt to give you silly costume ideas for game review youtube videos. It will never tell you to wear a lobster costume or cover your head in cornflakes or any of the other dozen costumes in these vids. Don't just tell me it can do it, go actually open up chatgpt and see if that comes up.
@bleh329 Yeah, and also infight because people are stubborn and doesn't like accepting ideas from other people over their own. Not to mention that people aren't available at all times when you need. That is not to say I would always take the AI over someone else to work with, there are some people that are great for that, but there are moments where the AI is the better option.
Watching this right after I saw a fellow artist on Twitter sadly making the decision to quit art professionally thanks to companies, like the company who makes drawing tablets for crying out loud, using the plagiarism machine. Fuck these parasitic entities
Unfortunately the starving artist trope really isn't as much of a trope as it is reality. I'm a death/thrash metal musician so my life is basically about creating art I'm passionate about but almost nobody else is. I guess it could be worse I could be a polka musician. I hope your friend gets to have another go at their art. There's nothing more soul crushing than having to give up on your passion.
1. It wouldn't surprise me if AI wrote that letter for him. 2. Based on that email, I get the impression that he's someone that has failed upwards. By that I mean someone with an impressive vocabulary and the gift-of-gap so they get promoted quickly, but ultimately, there's no there there. Eventually, all their flaws and cracks start to show once they're forced to be the leader and decision maker. But at that point, they're already in charge of a self-sustaining system, and you just have to put up with it until something really bad happens that gets them to quit/fired.
The only job that can be easily replaced by AI without anyone noticing is a CEO. They're so afraid of any artistically new idea, that they make all their decisions just like an algorithm. The shortest path to the quickest buck.
Considering how overpaid the average CEO is, it'd be the biggest budget-saving move, too! After all, robots don't go out and blow their money on yachts (outside of sci-fi comedy shows like Futurama, of course).
Given the president has the title of "representative director", and knowing SE is described as having a democratic leadership style, I think the president is just there to vomit out whatever johnny-come-lately hellworld capitalist nonsense the rest of the board eventually stumble their way into.
I’ve already started seeing digital artists saying they’re quitting digital art because they know they can’t compete (especially on price) against AI. The gleeful disregard for actual work because “what if executives and shareholders can make more money” is so disdainful. I haven’t bought Square Enix games since FF7R and I think I’ll just keep up that streak.
One saving grace is that despite all the furry art out there, ai is pretty trash at it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ That segment also really likes new personal OCs and then getting art, writing, etc of their OCs. Not sure about the rest though. AI instagram models are very much a thing..
Life did get better for me in 2023, tho it took a bit to get there: Came out as transfem in March, then experienced awful abuse from my parents for a good few months after coming out to them at the start of April, kept fighting, moved out of my parents place in September and started HRT, went to a furry convention in the US where everyone fully embraced my new identity and complimented me on my looks and clearly improved mental health, and now I'm dating my wonderful girlfriend as a polyam trans lesbian, whom I spent christmas with. Also I'm growing TITS! WOW, what a year!
I'm so happy for you! Also, as much hate as the furry community gets, its pretty accepting as communities go. I suppose it has to in order to exist after all.
What's with all these tech bros thinking AI is going to do everything? It's a neat tool (at least while it remains publicly accessible) but so is autocorrect, and autocorrect ain't gonna replace editors anytime soon. I also don't have to tell an artist eight hundred times what I'm looking for and what errors to correct, so I don't see the techbro dream of "no more paid artists" coming to pass in the near future.
Buddy if you think square enix isn't paying artists you may not live on Earth, their entire business model revolves around final fantasy cutscenes being film grade.
@@Vanity0666 ...and if you think they don't salivate at the thought of replacing all of these artists with unpaid robots, you don't know how capitalism works. Did you watch the video? What point did you think I was trying to make, here?
Theoretically it can do lots of things, like fold proteins and discover potential new materials in material science for studying. It can be great for a lot of things and the possibilities are only now just being discovered, at least that's my hope, but art isn't one of them, and certainly not in the manifestation we're seeing now which is whatever lies beyond the uncanny valley. There's lots of reasons why AI can never create actual meaningful art, and there's a even more reasons why we should lower our standards to much that we accept AI art as real art, but there's also lots of positives about the technology that could potentially smash through research barriers in a lot of fields which is exciting, but these aren't the overhyped corporate tech version of the technology so this isn't what he hear about. Meanwhile, all AI bros talk about is how they aspire to become reverse milking cows by getting hooked up to full-dive VR where they're permanently plugged in to their sex fantasy getting sucked off by an AI anime girlfriend. It's actually embarrassing how pathetic these people are, and I truly wish I was exaggerating. F*ck AI bros and everything they say and believe in.
Not that you're wrong about those limitations, but I'd say this is a whole load more dangerous than the previous techbro drivel about crypto and NFTs - those had no utility whatsoever and all we needed to do was laugh at the whole edifice while we waited for it to crumble. Current so-called AI is miles off handling main plots and key art, for sure, but around the edges (background detail, lore collectibles, even NPC voice acting) companies are absolutely going to find scope for it that makes a significant difference to people who may previously have done that donkeywork for a payslip. No more paid artists? Nah, I agree with you, never gonna happen. Fewer paid artists, though? Definitely. Cause for even more vigilance this time, I think.
@@jingbot1071 their artists are their legacy, you replace the artists and people will simply follow the artists. Only consumer drones and idiots care about the brand name of Square Enix.
In the Iron Man movies, Tony Stark used AI properly, as an assistant for _his_ creativity. It handled all the remedial tasks and computations while he guided projects with executive control. It was him doing the creation. But of course, greedy CEOs think they can _replace_ humans with AI. They're going to find out very quickly that that's basically throwing a hammer at a pile of lumber and expecting it to build a house.
I work at an office Job, nothing special and can't be considered art but they have just gotten rid of a bunch of staff and used AI as the reason for doing so. Said "your Job has been identified as a position that could be digitised". Allot of my friends have lost there jobs and I'm being asked to do there work and my own after management is basically fucking everything up. If you are having issues with a service and things are taking far longer than they should, this is probably why things are taking longer.
Y'know sometimes a corporate letter is just a bunch of corpo gobbledegook and yet Steph still puts on a lobster mask and gives it all the credit it deserves. They're my hero and personal lord and savior
My 2023...Lets see, the previous 11 months had me taking my dad to chemo and doctor appointments, dealing with family members getting wrongly arrested and paying their legal fees (hoping to get part of it back from the city) that even the cops said was wrong, and best of all,the day before Christmas Eve I go into the hospital because of kidney failure and the day after Christmas (which I spent alone in ICU) getting a port/catheter put into my neck for dialysis while it bleeding for 2 days before they were able to get it to stop causing me to need two blood transfusions. Yeah, 2023 was a real winner for me. 😂
Jeez dude that's a rough year. For what it's worth you've at least made me feel better about my year which I was thinking had been pretty bad. I hope your health improves and 2024 is better for you my dude.
@@jackcoleman1784 thanks. It's been a pretty crappy year but hopefully this year will be better, kind of hard for it to be worse lol. I hope things go better for you, too.
Nice to see that you're keeping you head. 1:19 - After witnessing Konami's dumpster fire of a "game" (e.g. Silent Hill: Ascension) Square Enix don't want to be left behind in their competition to be the EA of Asia. 5:39 - They really need to skip the corpo speak. 7:00 - Anyone can make a mistake once, but to make the same toxic error, year after year, is nothing short of deliberate. 8:15 - When it comes to the idea of writers being replaced by AI, there should be a little picture of you on that page with the caption "Over MY F****** DEAD BODY!!! Thank god for me!" 10:07 - I thought that MY jokes were bad. 13:40 - It's even worse when there are those that don't want to stop the exploitation and want to find a way to BECOME the exploiters. Frodo was right, wouldn't you say? The shadow can only mock, it can't make new things on it's own, it can only ruin and twist things beyond recognition.
When Square-Enix finally decides to replace Tetsuya Nomura with AI for their art and writing, his eventual departure will cause Square's stock to plmmet down the shitter unless they pull itself out of Wall Street because that's what Konami did when they fucked over Hideo Kojima.
Considering that a lot of Nomura's stories are Gordian knots themselves, how will we even notice the difference? Is it cause the stories will make more sense and lead to less pointless sequels and prequels??
Square Enix going full steam into AI because going full steam into NFTs and crypto worked out swimmingly for them. This time it's really gonna work guys! Infinite growth for real this time!
and like...this letter is meant for the shareholder scum...just send it to THEM, we don't need to see how evil and awful the ceo is, we already know, releasing it publicly is just asking for angry customers/fans
The sad thing is, while NFTs were never going to catch on, this 'AI' is only going to get better and harder to detect over time. Unlike NFTs, it feels like this is inevitably going to be a long term shit show rather than a flash in the pan before crashing.
Not if George RR Martin has his way...and seen with the Midjourney hack, at least bigger name artists and writers and unions associated with him are digging for hard proof and copyright violations This isn't getting into the *poisoning the databases* likenthr Glaze project does
I have so many friends who support themselves through art and writing (myself included) and it pissed me off that so many companies are screwing those people over. I've heard a lot of terrible stories from artist friends about people complaining about how their commission prices are too high or how said artist doesn't deserve to get paid cause "they're not that good". Feels like things really have gotten worse on that front with the AI stuff smh
"leaning hard into AI" says the man running a company that blew its own foot off with NFTs a year ago. Impressively unencumbered by the thought process
15:29 I like that he called it a Grand Design because that's what the mindflayers in Baldur's Gate 3 calls their master plan of taking over the world by forcing everyone else to transform into mindflayers.
That soulless corpo speak is just so, so draining. I should know. I have to parrot that kind of 'we position our budience in x market and we target x audience' talk every day. That aside, well done on those game writing gigs Steph. I'm wanting to go into it myself, and as worried I am with AI being used as a shortcut by wanker companies, seeing people recognise you as the talented writer you are is a real mood booster.
Steph, I think more than anything I come back and watch your videos purely to see what obscure references linked to my childhood will flash up... I didn't even realise another human alive had seen Young Eisenstein, what a banger of a film!
If ever you're wondering about the ethics of an emerging social construct or piece of tech... just wait until January and see if Squeenix's Head writes about it. If they do: Run. If they don't: It's probably fine.
To be fair I do think life got better for me and honestly a for a lot of other Brazilians cause we kicked Bolsonaro out and finally had some political structure made to protect vulnerable people. Just seeing that idiot get blocked out of running for elections for the next 8 years was already a big plus tbh
15:25 You raise a good point. Imagine how much money these corporations could save if they replaced their executives with a glorified spellchecker. The savings in assault and abuse settlements alone.
I can honestly say that my life got better last year. My 2023 still sucked eggs, but by virtue of how even more awful my 2022 was, 2023 was a true improvement.
Dev can’t even integrate a spread sheet into their games to check their balancing. Who thinks they’re not gonna fuck up something as complex as putting a string of words together?
Wizards of the Coast has also faced pushback for AI art. They've stated that AI art won't be allowed in final products, but we will have to keep an eye on them. We will need to keep pushing back on AI art like we did NFTs, and support the companies that value and support artists.
Did.. Did the official statement actually capitalise Grand Design? After the massive success of baldur's gate? Although why am I surprised, there's corporate surveillance, sorry, time management software named after kraken, a facial recognition software called skynet, and a Google computer cluster called borg
Having had to read that Enix letter, we can only hope that ChatGPT replaces Takashi Kiryu before the next one. I mean... it probably could do 90% of his day to day work already...
A shiny rock could have done better than Squenix's executives the last few years. All they've done is chase failures, piss off everyone, and shed IP to pay for the previous two things.
As someone who has only recently got round to playing Yakuza like a Dragon I really appreciate the use of the image or Ryo Aoki as an "executive asshole" is much appreciated. I love watching you take the industry to task.
I work in the AI space and I can tell you, what these execs want to do is not really possible yet, but may be in 5 years or so. Much like many game companies shifted from "AAA" console/PC titles to mobile gambling machines, generating more "content" for say, Candy Crush is going to be significantly easier for an AI compared to, say, an immersive, fully-voiced Action RPG
Y'know, the really ironic thing to me is that like, generative AI could certainly have a place in creative endeavors, particularly video games, and bizarrely enough in the intersection of some of the empty promises made during the NFT craze. One "game changing" idea floated by the know-nothing techbros at the time was the idea of digital items being transferable between totally different video games, something which is to anyone with even the vaguest notion of actually making a video game, completely impractical if not entirely impossible. Or to use a more recent example, Bandai-Namco trying to realize it's own "Metaverse" focused around the Gundam franchise, with a big draw being the actualization of the concepts seen in the "Build" sub-franchise, where-in plastic toys are loaded into an MMO-scale game world. The difference between that and projects like Skylanders being these toys were hand-crafted by players rather than simply storing predesigned assets, having to be scanned into the game with all their weaponry and capabilities dreamed up by the players added to the pre-existing code for them to function. This is, obviously, impossible. Bandai has, somewhat admirably, managed a pretty good system for scanning in the hand-made toys, but are of course unable to do anything more than stick a skeleton into the resultant model and slap on a few pre-made weapons and effects. Generative AI could, theoretically, be leveraged to perform the necessary real-time tasks to actually program in player-designed content on the fly, which would be simply impractical to have an actual staff on-hand to do constantly. But the people pushing this shit aren't interested in filling a gap, or complimenting actual human work, or thinking even a little creatively with the tools they champion. No, they just want to make a quick buck by churning out some crap that people will pay them for without having to spend a dime to have someone with a lick of actual ability contribute anything of actual value. Because that's all that matters. Money. Not ease of accessibility, as some techbros will claim waving around disabled creators like a scapegoat. Not to improve consumer experience, like some with an inkling of what their job is apparently supposed to be might claim. Just to milk more money from people who don't care enough to know any better. On a 99% unrelated note, kind of surprised Steph hasn't made a video about the ongoing implosion of Bungie.
I am curious if they are pushing play to earn games because they are popular in the middle east, africa and south america.... wealth gap yay. This on top of them promising more great individual titles (like Visions of Mana, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy) and a promise to support the collective projects, smaller games and solid single player experiences.... I just hope they balance things out. I am loving FFXIV, the dawntrail trailer got me super excited as being a fine artist pictomancer has me already planning to main it, etc. When I read his letter all I saw was Wall Street fluff. Lets hope we get good games.
You also had an awful 2023? I'm glad it wasn't just me. 2023 seemed to be a horrible year for us all; I hope 2024 is better. Also, thank you for talking about this AI art bullshit and how companies use it to devalue artists of all types
Just a technical tip for filming with face covering masks: You can buy throat microphones - or laryngophone - which picks up the sound from the neck. It allows you to be heard clearly on the recording regardless of helmets/masks/wind/etc. I'm pretty sure they make your voice sound a bit different, but you can either dub over that or fiddle with it in post. They also look a bit like a choker necklace, so it'd probably go well with your usual aesthetics!
Heya, Sterl. I've been a fan for a very long time. However (image of shrimp), I have always wondered about one particular seemingly in-joke that I have never gotten the context for. However (image of shrimp), I would like to take this chance to ask what exactly is the context for the shrimp image whenever you say "however". Cheers, you absolute Skeleton Warriors.
Heyyyy, co-editor here. So the way I grok the shrimp is that it's an animal that looks like a comma, and Steph has a habit of overpronouncing "however" in a particular way, almost in a way that calls for an "air-comma". I believe that's why it became a tradition with previous editing. I've got sort of my own version of that which appears from time to time, where if Steph similarly emphasizes a word ending in "-ly", I throw in a picture of Bruce Lee.
I think they speak this way so the general public even if they take the time to listen to the starments will ignore the egregious parts as more corporate drivial that it was sandwitched between.
12:49 Don't forget Dragon Quest of the Stars, Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light (Southeast Asia English release), Dragon Quest Rivals (which was referenced in Dragon Quest Treasures, even in the English localization, even though it was never in English in the west or Southeast Asia), Dragon Quest Monster Parade, Dragon Quest Monster Battle Road (Victory aside), Lords of Vermillion, Dissidia Arcade and Dissidia NT
I knew this video was coming the second i laid eyes upon that abomination of a letter on twitter. Because we all know, Square Enix is the worst and #MondayIsComing
There has already been AI program creators complaining that AI art programs are generating crap because they're stealing other AI "art". It's that copy of a copy of a copy thing. The system is already collapsing. Just in time for Squeenix to dig through the ashes.
This is a major reason AI isn't going to replace artists. Can't wait until AI art just becomes the default filler art option and is subsequently viewed like rough concepts at best instead of trying to use the tool to entirely replace artists, which it was never designed to do to begin with. The moment AI art is seen like Microsoft clip art, the artists win.
@@jingbot1071 A friend of mine, who's uncle works for a certain large animation company, has said that some people there DO use AI for storyboarding. They get the AI to make rough pictures to present for storyboarding purposes, which once things are finalized, are replaced by actual art done by people. THAT is something I can see AI being useful for. Essentially placeholder art.
It sucks that AI won't ever be used in a way where people are fairly compensated. Like, a game where the characters respond in real time to your actual dialogue in a realistic way would be amazing... But there is no world in which the voice actors used to build that system are fairly comoensated for it.
"A game where characters respond in real time in a realistic way to your actual dialogue would be amazing." No. It wouldn't. This kind of betrays that you don't really understand how NPC dialogue and game writing in general works. In a well-written game, all dialogue is very specifically written and selected for. There might be a few filler NPCs that have kind of silly joke dialogue, but most NPC dialogue will be very purposeful. It's meant to give the player specific information which is meant to support the themes of the narrative, to give the player important exposition, or both. Being able to have random conversations based on the whims of the player does nothing to improve the writing of a game, even assuming you could get generative AI to produce something convincingly realistic, because at its best it's just cluttering the game's writing up with useless, inconsequential information. If you want to have random conversations, talk to a human my dude.
@@Knollock "This kind of betrays that you don't really understand how NPC dialogue and game writing in general works." Exactly and the last sentence reveals they couldn't even consider the possibility that the game could just not have voice acting.
Whenever someone asks about Square's failing on certain fads comes up, we only have to remember one thing, one thing forgotten in this video. Final Fantasy: All The Bravest.
Stop replacing artists with A.I., start replacing CEOs with A.I.!
Let’s go full Twilight Zone: The Brain Center at Whipples!
That was what Chile was going to do with Project Cybersyn, until the CIA couped the Government in 1973.
CEOs could be replaced with a coin flip.
Or better yet introduce elections for leadership in the workplace, elected by the workers
Generative algorithms could literally be made to work better than ANY CEO via training it on worker votes.
This won't happen, but the technology is damn near there.
@@robertsimpson8292yeah, the capitalist ruling class would kill most of the working class before willingly let us implement actual democracy. Bourgeois electoral politics is democracy for the wealthy only, and they sure as shit don't want democracy in the workplace. They can't let the working class gain class consciousness! That leads to icky, scary, evil SoCiALiSm!!
This guy came out on stage at FFXIV JP fanfestival and while the crowd was polite, chat on the livestream absolutely was *not* and frankly, all for it. Godspeed random hecklers in a stream chat who got whacked by the mods immediately anyway, he deserves little else.
SE and XIV is like a reverse cancer situation: this horrible, pulsating mass with something reasonably wholesome growing off of it.
Amazing how the energy switched when he appeared.
There's a reason there was such a good response to Yoshi P saying "dawntrail will release on ffxivs schedule not square enix's"
@@thomasderosso5625I do think that XIV is a fantastic MMO generally, but its monetary structure might be one of the worst out there. Pay up front, pay monthly, AND pay for premium items all at once.
@@MasoTrumoi Not really. The have a subscription model, yes. But they have a discounted subscription for people that only play 1 char anyway and only for one month.
Also, the whole game structure heavily encourages going at your pace - that means also taking breaks. And you can very well take breaks between patches without missing out on much. The only thing that basically has you chained to a subscription is in game housing. And even that is limited to 1 login every 45 days or so, so you can just take a month off between that.
Compared to non subscription MMOs like GW2? Which shove premium sales and microtransactions in your face 24/7 tostay profitable? With time limits that push FOMO, especially in conjunction with lootboxes? You spend so much less on XIV. If you just compare average numbers, a subscription is not such an outlandish cost you make it out to be. Because "Free" players are a myth. Everyone caves to a microtransaction someday.
Oh, also on the point of "premium items". XIV is only cosmetics and extras not needed in the game. The exclusive content is reduced to mount skins (and tbh you can get nicer ones ingame), some glam items or emotes (because they got designed by the korean branch and therefore are not fully SE property - hence they can't just give them for free) and lastly past event items.
Granted, I'd like having old event stuff ingame as well. But events always have a new story every year, so having past rewards for the story you didn't do does feel a bit off. Still, if you log in and play for like 30 minutes on an event, you earn those items absolutely free of charge. Not like with games like Temtem where you get jackshit without even buying a pass. Or grinding for a week.
Like, I dunno what else to tell you. If you think XIV is bad, you ignore 99.9% of games that are factually worse. That is an opinion one can have, but maybe not the best.
@@MasoTrumoi I mean, none of those premium items are even remotely pay to win (frankly, only the Febnrir SDS gives any kind of actual game advantage, and that's just "a tiny bit faster mount") but your mileage may vary on whether that makes a difference to you
This letter came out like 2 days after I got FF7 Intergrade on sale. I got a quick reminder that Square is basically Shinra in real life.
The only difference is that Square isn't doing so hot. Remember that they had to sell Crystal Dynamics and Eidos just to stay afloat last year.
@@ohnosmoarlulcatz They were doing just fine. FF14 prints money for them. They sold their entire western gaming division in order to double down on techbro snake oil like NFTs and AI and specifically said so.
Money making corporation whose game development teams are named "Creative Business Unit" 1-3 who exists to make money making money moves is apparently some kind of shock
@@originalscreenname44that was the previous executive
@@Vanity0666 It was both. After the new guy got the position he doubled down on the NFTs and AI just like the guy who left.
AI has three fundamental issues it cannot overcome, at least not how it currently exists:
1) Its ability to produce content is dependent on its ability to steal other people's intellectual property without paying for it.
2) It costs way, way more for AI to function than people realize, and the entire business model is currently sustained by venture capital.
3) AI's best use (in terms of efficacy) is to replace executives at companies, since what it most excels at is making data-driven decisions, but for obvious reasons executives are not eager to adopt the technology in a way that would make *them* obsolete.
i was going to make an argument about how 3) isn't even correct because much of data-driven jobs also requires the human element of sometimes checking in when something is wrong, never quite trusting the computer to do it all right, etc (Rowan Ellis made a great video about this); but then I realised that even with current CEOs the human element is practically nonexistent, so it really wouldn't make much of a difference
@@uncreative398 😆Ain't that the truth
The funny part of Squenix always jumping on bandwagons is that they jump too late to get anything out of them and end up with a face full of mud.
Final Fantasy XVI? "More like *_Final Game of Devil Thrones May Fantasy Cry XVI,_* am I right?"
Remember back in the day, when Final Fantasy was being the *trendsetter* rather than the late _trendfollower?_
Problem is, AI actually has solid ground beneath it. That is NOT a good thing.
Bitcoin and NFTs are doomed to fail simply because they're as empty as their promises. There's nothing solid or substantial backing them outside of whoever's influential right now.
AI, on the other hand, is the stuff we've already been using FOR YEARS. The unfortunate part is that someone was bound to come along eventually and teach it to "create". It was inevitable. Worse still, companies will jump on this because it could potentially save them hundreds of thousands of dollars on labor, their mindset being, "Why pay a department of people to do a job when a computer can do it just as good/better".
It's edging us even closer to a dystopian future where the common rabble kill themselves over scraps while the elite sit in their ivory towers and profit.
What you talking about brother I put all my money into NFT which has now netted me negative money in the fiat which the gubment can’t tax cause it’s non fungible. What they gonna do put a lien on my ape, they ain’t putting no lien on my ape brother
@@MrCrunchytime AI doesn't actually create though, it steals and repurposes. Every pixel in an AI-generated image or sentence in AI-generated text was already created by a human.
The fact AI image generators were trained on child porn is just the next big issue, Government law agencies should be serving search warrants on the companies that scraped the next and built databases of stolen content simply to shut them down for having Child porn in their databases.
I am glad companies are working on things like Nightshade to poison AI databases and kill its ability to generate stolen content.
@@MrCrunchytime No they do not. The kinds of AI these companies want has nothing at all to do with the useful stuff AI can do to streamline a workflow or let people do something that used to be complex and expensive in a way that is now approachable. No, they just want to be able to fire every one and have the robots do all the stuff for them. Also, explain to me the mythical business plan of AI start ups. I'll wait. It's another hype driven tech bro nightmare that's propped up by investors with no plan beyond hoping people just sit down and accept it so these companies can continue to exist. No one's going to find AI neat when 30% of the work force is suddenly unemployed. You know how much politicians love to flex low unemployment? AI will be dead the minute that shit hit's the political fan.
The people behind this wall of corpo-speak are so detached from reality that they have no clue what happens to an economy built on consumption when there's no one left in it with any resources left with which to use to *consume with*
Why do you think that police districts are receiving military equipment?
@@vxicepickxv That's great. That doesn't solve the problem for them. They NEED PEOPLE TO BUY THERE SHIT. Funding cops to smash protests isn't going to get funds into peoples hands to buy the stuff these companies need them to buy.
It's because those people are paid by the hyper-rich, who have become so wealthy that money has become an abstract scoreboard for them, and so now they just want to get all of it so that they "win".
The Squeenix guy sounds like a proper generative member... he's a massive cXck.
There's no real risk of that happening on a scale that will force change
I'm putting a 5€ bet outta there, that dear CEO's letter was written by A.I.
Excuse me we call them interns.
Not yet. This is still their corporate PR-department’s doing.
The letter was so canned, full of buzz words and corporate shortsightedness that it might as well be. Its so formulaic that it doesn't sound human or in contact with their public. Maybe Kiryu is following in Android Wilson's footsteps, trying to become a brain in a cybernetic frame.
I'd put money on Kiryu being completely generated by AI- the proportions of his face look slightly off and he has that glossy, hyperreal texture you get with AI artwork. We just need to get a proper look at his hands to know for sure...
It has to be, it sounds way, WAY too generic to be written entirely by a living person
You remember when we thought robots would replace manual labour, and we'd all be left to pursue our artistic whims? Good times...
hey, if you think about it, the poors really are NPCs /s
How did we manage to get it completely backwards?
They did. Do a Google search for "Business insider 70% middle-class jobs automation". You'll find an article about a study that found 70% of middle-class jobs were lost to automation and not outsourcing like was previously thought. If you want to see a specific example look up how the steam controller was built. They literally just poured parts into a machine and out came steam controllers. Or if all the videos about applesauce factories where they pour apples in on one end and on the other end comes out boxes of applesauce.
If you look into it you're going to find a huge rise of gig economy jobs which are low-paying shit jobs. Nobody works those jobs if they have something better lined up they just don't because we've done so much automation and the value of that automation isn't getting spread around because that's kind of how capitalism works whoever owns the capital gets the money
Meanwhile companies don't particularly care if they have fewer customers because they can just raise prices on the remaining customers. Sort of like how the king didn't particularly care if they had customers.
We have massive problems with automation we're just not recognizing it.
Greed got in the way, sweatshop labor is way cheaper than robots. Also the tech was shit, or too expensive for most industries not in the car making business. There a shitload of manufacturing that got automated regardless. @@Lectrikfro
That's still in the process of happening. The machines don't just take control overnight lol
I kind of wish I could actually be surprised that Stephanie has a lobster costume just laying around.
Made me think of that one john waters movie 😂
i mean they used lobster claws in the bethesda is bethetic video, so im not surprised theres a mask
can we get a post transition remaster of bethesda is bethetic pls steph?
What is frustrating about ai is that it could be used to automate away a lot of tedious technical aspects of art, stuff like retopology for sculpted models, adding secondary movement in animations (see cascadeur) and many more things, but instead the use cases being explored is a method to completely remove artists at all.
Lastly AI should be a great thing heralding a new age where we all don’t have to work as hard, but nope, we live in a world dominated by capitalism, so only the people at the top will see true gains from this tech.
Yep it endlessly frustrates me. Cause there are ethical and useful ways to use ai and then they just do it make cheap soulless looking art and say oh we don't need artists now.
Another issue is that despite those applications being promising, it's also the grunt work that new workers cut their teeth on in order to develop their own skills and to form connections. AI will not replace artists, but it will make more overworked artists while making being a new artist even more competitive.
Of course, this wouldn't be an issue if capitalism wasn't purely about the bottom line of profit over people, but it's the system in place right now.
Yeah. Its such a cool technology and concept but being made and defended by terrible people who seem to fundamentally not understand what it is they're talking about. They say things like "it's just inspired like humans are" or "its learning like people are, if thats illegal, so is learning to draw by looking at copyrighted material". And like, do they not know how the generative AI works? It doesn't work even vaguely similar to a human artist. Its a denoiser. You can get it to generate the process for you to look at, and you can see how it works, and its alien, mechanical, and nothing at all like how a human would do it.
To anthropomorphise for the sake of brevity, it doesn't know its generating something, it thinks you've given it the image already and its just cleaning the noise off. You hand it some noise and tell it its a banana, and it cleans up the picture of the banana you gave it. It didn't draw a banana. It pulled a banana out of the noise. Which is fundamentally, by design, a banana based on the training data. You can sometimes even spot the exact banana image it copied. Midjourney is reproducing specific artworks completely unaltered right now.
I used to be pro AI, and the thing that made me change my tune is that StableDiffusion kept generating images with the same couch in it. This couch turned out to be a direct 1 to 1 copy of a couch from the training data. And this wasn't a bug, this couch wasn't oversaturated in the data, the couch shows up exactly once in the data, but for whatever reason it would turn up, again and again, completely unaltered. It had a bit of fabric hanging off of it, and the colour of the fabric and couch cushions would change, but every shadow, crease, fold, and speck of dirt would show up, pixel perfect.
This coupled with knowing how it actually works, made it clear to me that generative AI is just copying the training data with extra steps. Thats literally how it works. If you haven't given it enough training data to copy, it creates warped or terrible results. It constantly copies layouts in particular, where it will use the layout something specific from the training data, but fill in the details with a pastiche of other images. This is fundamentally how it works.
And thats okay, theres nothing inherently wrong with turning a de-noiser into an image generator. The problem is the plagiarism and attempting to use it to destroy the livelihoods of the very people its plagiarising. I have no ethical qualms about people using AI to make shitposts, for the same reason I have no issues with people using any other content to make shitposts. Hell, I don't even really have a problem with people using it as a tool in a workflow where they do significant transformative work to the output. Though thats a bit ethically shaky and subjective. But the AI bro's went immediately for the shittiest possible way to use it and don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Its so annoying.
@@fluidthought42Also, will make humans worse at these jobs with time, we will stop learning these skills and will become more and more dependent on technology to the most basic stuff.
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I'm not sure I agree with this assertion in that being a bad thing per se. It's not like frame by frame rotoscoping is a lost art, it's very much still in practice in doe regards, nor is it's loss truly all that terrible, indeed algorithmic in-betweening is already a thing in digital animation.
The problem is that we don't have systems in place to train new artists outside of the easily automated busywork, and that's exacerbated by capitalistic conditions making creative lifestyles hard to sustain in a healthy way. If people didn't need to labor to survive, if we had systems in place to train new artists, if we didn't have corporations that prioritized profit over people...
Well then AI wouldn't really be a problem at all eh? But alas, we can't get there sooner than AI will get here, so we have to agitate for worker control. Unions especially will be key to this fight.
I feel like the murder basement is its own character in the Stephaverse now.
They're just filming the things exiting an SCP, really.
I enjoyed Ryo Aoki from Y7 being the guy used to represent the CEO, absolutely the correct energy.
Another day another late-capitalism from Square Enix. Why must they own so many IPs I like?
Also yay for skeleton warriors gag
Because they make a shitzillion dollars per year which is why they can keep making those games
@@Vanity0666 Sounds like a job for piracy.
Barring revolution, of course.
@@Vanity0666 Well yes I'm aware, it's more a "oh univervse why must they own that" kinda complaint
@@Mene0 remember to see Advent Children in theaters again
If only there were millions of other titles to play that wouldn't support this company....
While I am worried about what the future of many workers will be like, due to AI, I am relieved that my particular line of work will never be affected by it. See, I work in the Customer Support industry, and if there's one message we get told repeatedly, and with varying degrees of frustration, is that when people want customer support, they do *NOT* want to talk to a robot.
You can't hurt a robot's feelings after all :(
Aah a fellow sufferer in the pits of custumer support. For me, it's IT support. And GOD is my company trying and trying to push to replace us with AI. We literally got new metrics last year that measure how well we train our GenAI tools. But you are absolutely correct. Most Germans don't speak English and most Germans are pretty technologically illiterate. Many are already overwhelmed by a simple voice input menu when they call a hotline. While i think my job will be become much less pleasant in the next years, just going by the "oh god, finally I'm talking to a human!" reactions i get every day, i hope and think we'll be fine.
IF companies don't decide to say fuck it and fire us anyway and what are customers gonna do? Go to a competitor who ALSO replaced their customer support with AI?
In reality it's true for most fields that nobody wants what they get as a service to be made by an AI. Why on earth would you want an audiobook read by a robot instead of like, an actual human being with emotions and their own inflection? Heck, you don't even want software to be made by chatGPT so that it one day just randomly forgets that your microwave isn't supposed to turn on when the door isn't closed. This tech is not good, or reliable or creative enough to do the vast majority of the things executives and charlatans alike are creaming their pants thinking it can do.
But this isn't a technological revolution by any means. AI didn't pop into existence a year ago. What has changed is the overt willingness by these executives to openly say and show that their goal is to replace as many people as possible with this shitty technology.
Take for example duolingo. We got automated translation for decades now. But what changed is that 2023 CEOs feel confident that they can get away with replacing most of the translators with AI and have the remaining ones there to 'review' what the AI makes. Note that in reality what this means is that the remaining translators are doing the same amount of work as a higher number of translators were doing, except that now the executives can claim that the "AI" is doing the work and the human translators are just "reviewing" it . There's nothing new in 2023 about translation technology. The 'innovation' is coming from ways in which the capitalist class are coming up with ways to use it as an excuse to stop paying people for work.
But the good thing is that much like NFTs, this is going to collapse on its own weight. The translation work done by a reduced amount of translators + some dumb computer translation is going to suck. The customer support bots are going to make customers angry. The automatically plagiarized art has to look like shit in order to obfuscate its human work. And the code generated from chatGPT has a much higher error rate than normal code and will create so many errors that will need actual skilled labor to be fixed. This is going to collapse. The only problem is that for a year or two we are going to keep seeing a lot of attempts to exploit people while the fever lasts.
Have you not seen the AI chat agents that sound similar to a real person? Don't hold out hope too long.
It doesn't matter what the people want. Watching the whole roll out of AI, I'm not sure why you still think that matters. As you seem to be aware of, companies have been trying to eliminate humanity from the support end since long before the AI craze.
@@Tetsaga Similar, not identical. A robot cannot match a person on a 1-to-1 ratio. And sadly, a big chunk of the customers who call customer support are looking for a punching bag to verbally abuse.
Verbally abusing a bot doesn't yield them the same satisfaction that comes with abusing a living thinking feeling human being.
The opening part about COVID really has that "inflation is the fault of governments because they made us do the minimum of COVID precautions and that cost us money" vibe that we love to hear.
Be sure to be mad at "central bankers" for prices going up! Not the people raising the prices!
I took it as a neolib tech bro dogwhistle to get the chuds on board and ready to pay attention to the rest of the letter.
@@michaeldunkerton3805why do you think the prices were raised?
"It's not *our* fault that we pay the majority of our employees poverty-line wages and demand their output exceed reasonable levels while simultaneously raising prices on all of our products and laying off anyone we deem as 'too expensive' in an effort to keep up the charade of 'infinite growth' to our shareholders/board members! Blame the government for being too liberal!"
colored paper is worthless. and is just another form of coercion.
Not forgetting Magic The Gathering used an AI generated picture as a marketing post, then doubled down that it wasn't AI at all. Then people called out the fact that items in the picture weren't joined correctly. The Ai got confused as it does and just "did it's best" . Then after that MG people went away obviously had a meeting about it and then posted their update.. They confirmed the image was (after stating AI has no business in their business previously) AI generated but then blamed it on the vendor who supplied it. Oh and Wacom (however it's spelt, the artist tablet people) after also saying they were against it, used an AI generated image for their marketing as well. Calum Upton here on YT did a good video on it over the weekend.
Always a massive double-take from corporations around IP. Creating it is worthless, once it is created it is priceless. Therefore I want AI to create it for free and will pursue anyone I think is using it for free.
If SquareEnix has jumped on board, we can only hope this is a signal that AI's end is near!
Considering they waited until well after NFTs were dead to jump on the NFT bandwagon, it's more likely than you think.
I don't think AI will entirely go away because there are ethical ways of doing ai unlike nfts but I sure hope they stop trying to use it to replace artists and writers
@@yourlocalnerd7788 True - there's things AI can do that are good and ethical. I honestly think the current thing is just a scramble for cash before copyright law cracks down.
I think there will be a bust in AI like there was for VR. Meaning it won't go away and there will be a core audience that pays attention to it, but it will very much be a cooler market with a bunch of companies closing doors and even bigger ones having to rebuild stuff up. Most AI companies aren't even profitable, despite having the world's hottest tech they aren't even breaking even. Which makes sense tbh, lots of them are working on the "enshittefication" model of offering free tastes now and then hiking up the price later when it's time to play as real grown ups with real need for real money instead of speculative investor monopoly money.
Honestly most of these AI (or rather, machine learning models) firms would be insanely profitable... if they did porn. Coomer brain is essentially identical to an addicts, and they would spend unhealthy amounts of money to maintain an artificial relationship.
@@fluidthought42 that literally did happened with the porn thing for a while. There was this whole thing with replika where they were being advertised as sex partners for a while and then the service got taken away because the company didn't like how it made them look (also I've heard some claims that some of the men were verbally abusing the replicas but don't know how true that is. Obviously it's not a person but still concerning). When they were advertising their paid service for "sexy pictures" the ads were inescapable on yotube.
I guess my chosen grandma didn't get the memo that corona is over since she died of covid just before the holidays. So glad all regulations are over, had a lovely time crying in the dinner table 🙂
My condolences. I know how that feels, something similar happened on my end.
I'm so sorry for your loss
Ai could never come up with a lobster person in a basement making videos about video-games, there's hope for human creativity right there
It could help you get to that idea tho.
@@VixYW It couldnt. I dare you to try
@@JustForGaming_Alt-kf8lz It can tho. One of the best uses of chat bot is to bounce ides off of it to get to something you wouldn't ever think of on your own, or at least speed up the process.
@@VixYW Go actually get chatgpt to give you silly costume ideas for game review youtube videos. It will never tell you to wear a lobster costume or cover your head in cornflakes or any of the other dozen costumes in these vids. Don't just tell me it can do it, go actually open up chatgpt and see if that comes up.
@bleh329 Yeah, and also infight because people are stubborn and doesn't like accepting ideas from other people over their own. Not to mention that people aren't available at all times when you need.
That is not to say I would always take the AI over someone else to work with, there are some people that are great for that, but there are moments where the AI is the better option.
Watching this right after I saw a fellow artist on Twitter sadly making the decision to quit art professionally thanks to companies, like the company who makes drawing tablets for crying out loud, using the plagiarism machine. Fuck these parasitic entities
Unfortunately the starving artist trope really isn't as much of a trope as it is reality. I'm a death/thrash metal musician so my life is basically about creating art I'm passionate about but almost nobody else is. I guess it could be worse I could be a polka musician. I hope your friend gets to have another go at their art. There's nothing more soul crushing than having to give up on your passion.
Do they use Glaze?
1. It wouldn't surprise me if AI wrote that letter for him.
2. Based on that email, I get the impression that he's someone that has failed upwards.
By that I mean someone with an impressive vocabulary and the gift-of-gap so they get promoted quickly, but ultimately, there's no there there. Eventually, all their flaws and cracks start to show once they're forced to be the leader and decision maker. But at that point, they're already in charge of a self-sustaining system, and you just have to put up with it until something really bad happens that gets them to quit/fired.
The only job that can be easily replaced by AI without anyone noticing is a CEO. They're so afraid of any artistically new idea, that they make all their decisions just like an algorithm. The shortest path to the quickest buck.
Considering how overpaid the average CEO is, it'd be the biggest budget-saving move, too! After all, robots don't go out and blow their money on yachts (outside of sci-fi comedy shows like Futurama, of course).
Ladies and gentlemen, this was the SUCCESSOR from that AWFUL CEO. He was surely groomed to follow his footsteps to be just as bad.
Given the president has the title of "representative director", and knowing SE is described as having a democratic leadership style, I think the president is just there to vomit out whatever johnny-come-lately hellworld capitalist nonsense the rest of the board eventually stumble their way into.
I’ve already started seeing digital artists saying they’re quitting digital art because they know they can’t compete (especially on price) against AI. The gleeful disregard for actual work because “what if executives and shareholders can make more money” is so disdainful. I haven’t bought Square Enix games since FF7R and I think I’ll just keep up that streak.
One saving grace is that despite all the furry art out there, ai is pretty trash at it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That segment also really likes new personal OCs and then getting art, writing, etc of their OCs.
Not sure about the rest though. AI instagram models are very much a thing..
"Commercial drones" feels like a derogatory euphemism for "employees".
Or customers. Commercial drones aptly describes all Final Fantasy fans. 😂
Ok but the Lobsterling outfit looks absolutely amazing for reasons I cannot quite articulate.
Life did get better for me in 2023, tho it took a bit to get there:
Came out as transfem in March, then experienced awful abuse from my parents for a good few months after coming out to them at the start of April, kept fighting, moved out of my parents place in September and started HRT, went to a furry convention in the US where everyone fully embraced my new identity and complimented me on my looks and clearly improved mental health, and now I'm dating my wonderful girlfriend as a polyam trans lesbian, whom I spent christmas with. Also I'm growing TITS! WOW, what a year!
Anyways COVID is at an all time high certain parts of the world, so what the fuck is he on about?? x3
the first half of that sounds like a rough go, but tits and girlfriends are nice so congrats on those at least
High five for getting on HRT and growing tits! Me too! 🏳️⚧️💜
Lucky lol. Defo got worse for me haha.
I'm so happy for you! Also, as much hate as the furry community gets, its pretty accepting as communities go. I suppose it has to in order to exist after all.
What's with all these tech bros thinking AI is going to do everything? It's a neat tool (at least while it remains publicly accessible) but so is autocorrect, and autocorrect ain't gonna replace editors anytime soon.
I also don't have to tell an artist eight hundred times what I'm looking for and what errors to correct, so I don't see the techbro dream of "no more paid artists" coming to pass in the near future.
Buddy if you think square enix isn't paying artists you may not live on Earth, their entire business model revolves around final fantasy cutscenes being film grade.
@@Vanity0666 ...and if you think they don't salivate at the thought of replacing all of these artists with unpaid robots, you don't know how capitalism works.
Did you watch the video? What point did you think I was trying to make, here?
Theoretically it can do lots of things, like fold proteins and discover potential new materials in material science for studying. It can be great for a lot of things and the possibilities are only now just being discovered, at least that's my hope, but art isn't one of them, and certainly not in the manifestation we're seeing now which is whatever lies beyond the uncanny valley. There's lots of reasons why AI can never create actual meaningful art, and there's a even more reasons why we should lower our standards to much that we accept AI art as real art, but there's also lots of positives about the technology that could potentially smash through research barriers in a lot of fields which is exciting, but these aren't the overhyped corporate tech version of the technology so this isn't what he hear about.
Meanwhile, all AI bros talk about is how they aspire to become reverse milking cows by getting hooked up to full-dive VR where they're permanently plugged in to their sex fantasy getting sucked off by an AI anime girlfriend. It's actually embarrassing how pathetic these people are, and I truly wish I was exaggerating. F*ck AI bros and everything they say and believe in.
Not that you're wrong about those limitations, but I'd say this is a whole load more dangerous than the previous techbro drivel about crypto and NFTs - those had no utility whatsoever and all we needed to do was laugh at the whole edifice while we waited for it to crumble.
Current so-called AI is miles off handling main plots and key art, for sure, but around the edges (background detail, lore collectibles, even NPC voice acting) companies are absolutely going to find scope for it that makes a significant difference to people who may previously have done that donkeywork for a payslip.
No more paid artists? Nah, I agree with you, never gonna happen. Fewer paid artists, though? Definitely. Cause for even more vigilance this time, I think.
@@jingbot1071 their artists are their legacy, you replace the artists and people will simply follow the artists.
Only consumer drones and idiots care about the brand name of Square Enix.
In the Iron Man movies, Tony Stark used AI properly, as an assistant for _his_ creativity. It handled all the remedial tasks and computations while he guided projects with executive control. It was him doing the creation. But of course, greedy CEOs think they can _replace_ humans with AI. They're going to find out very quickly that that's basically throwing a hammer at a pile of lumber and expecting it to build a house.
I work at an office Job, nothing special and can't be considered art but they have just gotten rid of a bunch of staff and used AI as the reason for doing so. Said "your Job has been identified as a position that could be digitised". Allot of my friends have lost there jobs and I'm being asked to do there work and my own after management is basically fucking everything up. If you are having issues with a service and things are taking far longer than they should, this is probably why things are taking longer.
Can't wait for next year's letter when Square Enix outlines their plans to double down on the Torment Nexus.
Takashi Kiryu being Ryo Aoki from Y7 is absolutely fucking gold. I couldn't stop laughing when he showed up
Y'know sometimes a corporate letter is just a bunch of corpo gobbledegook and yet Steph still puts on a lobster mask and gives it all the credit it deserves. They're my hero and personal lord and savior
My 2023...Lets see, the previous 11 months had me taking my dad to chemo and doctor appointments, dealing with family members getting wrongly arrested and paying their legal fees (hoping to get part of it back from the city) that even the cops said was wrong, and best of all,the day before Christmas Eve I go into the hospital because of kidney failure and the day after Christmas (which I spent alone in ICU) getting a port/catheter put into my neck for dialysis while it bleeding for 2 days before they were able to get it to stop causing me to need two blood transfusions. Yeah, 2023 was a real winner for me. 😂
Jeez dude that's a rough year. For what it's worth you've at least made me feel better about my year which I was thinking had been pretty bad. I hope your health improves and 2024 is better for you my dude.
@@jackcoleman1784 thanks. It's been a pretty crappy year but hopefully this year will be better, kind of hard for it to be worse lol. I hope things go better for you, too.
Nice to see that you're keeping you head.
1:19 - After witnessing Konami's dumpster fire of a "game" (e.g. Silent Hill: Ascension) Square Enix don't want to be left behind in their competition to be the EA of Asia.
5:39 - They really need to skip the corpo speak.
7:00 - Anyone can make a mistake once, but to make the same toxic error, year after year, is nothing short of deliberate.
8:15 - When it comes to the idea of writers being replaced by AI, there should be a little picture of you on that page with the caption "Over MY F****** DEAD BODY!!! Thank god for me!"
10:07 - I thought that MY jokes were bad.
13:40 - It's even worse when there are those that don't want to stop the exploitation and want to find a way to BECOME the exploiters.
Frodo was right, wouldn't you say? The shadow can only mock, it can't make new things on it's own, it can only ruin and twist things beyond recognition.
Haha, the choice of LaD7's Aoki to represent the Squenix suits is spot on! 😂
When Square-Enix finally decides to replace Tetsuya Nomura with AI for their art and writing, his eventual departure will cause Square's stock to plmmet down the shitter unless they pull itself out of Wall Street because that's what Konami did when they fucked over Hideo Kojima.
Considering that a lot of Nomura's stories are Gordian knots themselves, how will we even notice the difference? Is it cause the stories will make more sense and lead to less pointless sequels and prequels??
I mean 2023 was the year I finally womaned up and started HRT, so it wasn't all bad.
Square Enix going full steam into AI because going full steam into NFTs and crypto worked out swimmingly for them. This time it's really gonna work guys! Infinite growth for real this time!
Would it kill Square Enix to put gag orders on any public statements and just make good games? They CAN make good games...
Best I can do is a gag order and a bunch of investment shenanigans.
AKA "pulling a Valve"
I like Dragon Quest Monsters 3... I just wished we had more original baddies like we did on the 3DS.
But how will line go up if I don't hype everyone up to expect me to be shit?
and like...this letter is meant for the shareholder scum...just send it to THEM, we don't need to see how evil and awful the ceo is, we already know, releasing it publicly is just asking for angry customers/fans
They have struggled making good games since Square first merged with Enix. We need to go back to the Squaresoft days
aw i was looking forward to muffled monologue hell before the dub started lmao
The sad thing is, while NFTs were never going to catch on, this 'AI' is only going to get better and harder to detect over time. Unlike NFTs, it feels like this is inevitably going to be a long term shit show rather than a flash in the pan before crashing.
Not if George RR Martin has his way...and seen with the Midjourney hack, at least bigger name artists and writers and unions associated with him are digging for hard proof and copyright violations
This isn't getting into the *poisoning the databases* likenthr Glaze project does
I have so many friends who support themselves through art and writing (myself included) and it pissed me off that so many companies are screwing those people over. I've heard a lot of terrible stories from artist friends about people complaining about how their commission prices are too high or how said artist doesn't deserve to get paid cause "they're not that good". Feels like things really have gotten worse on that front with the AI stuff smh
"leaning hard into AI" says the man running a company that blew its own foot off with NFTs a year ago. Impressively unencumbered by the thought process
15:29 I like that he called it a Grand Design because that's what the mindflayers in Baldur's Gate 3 calls their master plan of taking over the world by forcing everyone else to transform into mindflayers.
I'm going to add "don't worry, always morally okay to pirate from SquareEnix" to the list.
My friend currently has Covid and my mother had it last month. Glad that pandemic is over.
At least it largely has gone down from the peak years of 2020 and 2021.
It's gonna be funny when Squeenix becomes one of the companies their games used to call evil. "Planet's dyin, Cloud."
They already are, pretty much?
That soulless corpo speak is just so, so draining. I should know. I have to parrot that kind of 'we position our budience in x market and we target x audience' talk every day.
That aside, well done on those game writing gigs Steph. I'm wanting to go into it myself, and as worried I am with AI being used as a shortcut by wanker companies, seeing people recognise you as the talented writer you are is a real mood booster.
Can't wait for more episodes of the Shrimpquisition.
Cornflake Homunculus has evolved into LOBSTER LUCHADOR!
Steph, I think more than anything I come back and watch your videos purely to see what obscure references linked to my childhood will flash up... I didn't even realise another human alive had seen Young Eisenstein, what a banger of a film!
It was when she showed Softmints' Mr Soft advert that I spat out my milk through my nose. That was some serious nightmare fuel.
If ever you're wondering about the ethics of an emerging social construct or piece of tech... just wait until January and see if Squeenix's Head writes about it.
If they do: Run.
If they don't: It's probably fine.
Okay, that lobster thumbnail is going to give me nightmares for a few days.
Cheers
I wish there was some kind of master list of companies/studios that use AI to replace writers.
It would make it way easier to boycott them altogether.
Be the change you want to see. Set-up a public Google doc and list every single one in it as they get caught with their hand in the AI jar
To be fair I do think life got better for me and honestly a for a lot of other Brazilians cause we kicked Bolsonaro out and finally had some political structure made to protect vulnerable people. Just seeing that idiot get blocked out of running for elections for the next 8 years was already a big plus tbh
15:25 You raise a good point. Imagine how much money these corporations could save if they replaced their executives with a glorified spellchecker. The savings in assault and abuse settlements alone.
I can honestly say that my life got better last year. My 2023 still sucked eggs, but by virtue of how even more awful my 2022 was, 2023 was a true improvement.
Please, never learn that lesson, I love the chaotic energy of your opening monologues, even if I don't know what you are saying.
Always love a good Skeleton Warriors reference
Dev can’t even integrate a spread sheet into their games to check their balancing. Who thinks they’re not gonna fuck up something as complex as putting a string of words together?
Wizards of the Coast has also faced pushback for AI art. They've stated that AI art won't be allowed in final products, but we will have to keep an eye on them.
We will need to keep pushing back on AI art like we did NFTs, and support the companies that value and support artists.
Just from the start framing this guy as Ryo Aoki is fucking brilliant. Sets the tone up perfectly
I understood the "muffled" talk just fine...
Did.. Did the official statement actually capitalise Grand Design? After the massive success of baldur's gate?
Although why am I surprised, there's corporate surveillance, sorry, time management software named after kraken, a facial recognition software called skynet, and a Google computer cluster called borg
The bit starting arounnd 5:40, with the text going blurry and it looking like the watcher's eyes are closing?
Fucking brilliant. Love it ❤
JFC I kept phasing out during that, even with your read, Steph.
Having had to read that Enix letter, we can only hope that ChatGPT replaces Takashi Kiryu before the next one. I mean... it probably could do 90% of his day to day work already...
A shiny rock could have done better than Squenix's executives the last few years. All they've done is chase failures, piss off everyone, and shed IP to pay for the previous two things.
As someone who has only recently got round to playing Yakuza like a Dragon I really appreciate the use of the image or Ryo Aoki as an "executive asshole" is much appreciated. I love watching you take the industry to task.
I work in the AI space and I can tell you, what these execs want to do is not really possible yet, but may be in 5 years or so. Much like many game companies shifted from "AAA" console/PC titles to mobile gambling machines, generating more "content" for say, Candy Crush is going to be significantly easier for an AI compared to, say, an immersive, fully-voiced Action RPG
So, Kiryu is the new CEO of SE? Must have missed that side mission...
maybe the reason why kiryu is so into AI is because he thinks that if his speeches can be written by AI and the AI sounds more human
I think most executives can be replaced with A.I.
Y'know, the really ironic thing to me is that like, generative AI could certainly have a place in creative endeavors, particularly video games, and bizarrely enough in the intersection of some of the empty promises made during the NFT craze. One "game changing" idea floated by the know-nothing techbros at the time was the idea of digital items being transferable between totally different video games, something which is to anyone with even the vaguest notion of actually making a video game, completely impractical if not entirely impossible. Or to use a more recent example, Bandai-Namco trying to realize it's own "Metaverse" focused around the Gundam franchise, with a big draw being the actualization of the concepts seen in the "Build" sub-franchise, where-in plastic toys are loaded into an MMO-scale game world. The difference between that and projects like Skylanders being these toys were hand-crafted by players rather than simply storing predesigned assets, having to be scanned into the game with all their weaponry and capabilities dreamed up by the players added to the pre-existing code for them to function. This is, obviously, impossible. Bandai has, somewhat admirably, managed a pretty good system for scanning in the hand-made toys, but are of course unable to do anything more than stick a skeleton into the resultant model and slap on a few pre-made weapons and effects. Generative AI could, theoretically, be leveraged to perform the necessary real-time tasks to actually program in player-designed content on the fly, which would be simply impractical to have an actual staff on-hand to do constantly.
But the people pushing this shit aren't interested in filling a gap, or complimenting actual human work, or thinking even a little creatively with the tools they champion. No, they just want to make a quick buck by churning out some crap that people will pay them for without having to spend a dime to have someone with a lick of actual ability contribute anything of actual value. Because that's all that matters. Money. Not ease of accessibility, as some techbros will claim waving around disabled creators like a scapegoat. Not to improve consumer experience, like some with an inkling of what their job is apparently supposed to be might claim. Just to milk more money from people who don't care enough to know any better.
On a 99% unrelated note, kind of surprised Steph hasn't made a video about the ongoing implosion of Bungie.
Sterling is likely waiting until the collapse of Bungie is completed.
I am curious if they are pushing play to earn games because they are popular in the middle east, africa and south america.... wealth gap yay. This on top of them promising more great individual titles (like Visions of Mana, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy) and a promise to support the collective projects, smaller games and solid single player experiences.... I just hope they balance things out. I am loving FFXIV, the dawntrail trailer got me super excited as being a fine artist pictomancer has me already planning to main it, etc. When I read his letter all I saw was Wall Street fluff. Lets hope we get good games.
Kiryu proving in one meaningless sentence that his job could 100% be replaced by ChatGPT and NOBODY WOULD NOTICE.
Metal Gear Solid 2's prophesying continues.
You also had an awful 2023? I'm glad it wasn't just me. 2023 seemed to be a horrible year for us all; I hope 2024 is better.
Also, thank you for talking about this AI art bullshit and how companies use it to devalue artists of all types
Please, PLEASE never stop the SKELETON WARRIORS gag, James Stephanie! Just like how I'll never stop thanking god for you.
"The latest forced trend attempting to treat artists like unneccassary middle people standing between a company and it's money."
Impressive.
Just a technical tip for filming with face covering masks: You can buy throat microphones - or laryngophone - which picks up the sound from the neck. It allows you to be heard clearly on the recording regardless of helmets/masks/wind/etc. I'm pretty sure they make your voice sound a bit different, but you can either dub over that or fiddle with it in post.
They also look a bit like a choker necklace, so it'd probably go well with your usual aesthetics!
Heya, Sterl. I've been a fan for a very long time. However (image of shrimp), I have always wondered about one particular seemingly in-joke that I have never gotten the context for. However (image of shrimp), I would like to take this chance to ask what exactly is the context for the shrimp image whenever you say "however". Cheers, you absolute Skeleton Warriors.
Heyyyy, co-editor here. So the way I grok the shrimp is that it's an animal that looks like a comma, and Steph has a habit of overpronouncing "however" in a particular way, almost in a way that calls for an "air-comma". I believe that's why it became a tradition with previous editing.
I've got sort of my own version of that which appears from time to time, where if Steph similarly emphasizes a word ending in "-ly", I throw in a picture of Bruce Lee.
I think they speak this way so the general public even if they take the time to listen to the starments will ignore the egregious parts as more corporate drivial that it was sandwitched between.
Loving the lobster mask, it made me giggle ❤
12:49 Don't forget Dragon Quest of the Stars, Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light (Southeast Asia English release), Dragon Quest Rivals (which was referenced in Dragon Quest Treasures, even in the English localization, even though it was never in English in the west or Southeast Asia), Dragon Quest Monster Parade, Dragon Quest Monster Battle Road (Victory aside), Lords of Vermillion, Dissidia Arcade and Dissidia NT
I know you've been using the intro for a bit, but i love the new intro. and the commitment to masks :D
I love Murder Basement, but nothing will ever take the Cornflakes Homunculus from my heart.
4:50 Does anyone remember the government representative guy from Disco Elysium who can't seem to talk like a human being? Just thought of that.
"Harbinger of demonic erectile tissue" had me almost cough up my coffee 😂
Lovely intro. Those spider webs looked real enough. Muffled or no, i got a laugh out of the lobby costume. :D
Once more we are denied lobster explanations;;;
The letter "could've itself been written by AI", you say, and I wonder: do we have any reason whatever to suppose that it wasn't?
I knew this video was coming the second i laid eyes upon that abomination of a letter on twitter. Because we all know, Square Enix is the worst and #MondayIsComing
Can always appreciate a Yahoo Serious reference :)
There has already been AI program creators complaining that AI art programs are generating crap because they're stealing other AI "art".
It's that copy of a copy of a copy thing.
The system is already collapsing. Just in time for Squeenix to dig through the ashes.
This is a major reason AI isn't going to replace artists.
Can't wait until AI art just becomes the default filler art option and is subsequently viewed like rough concepts at best instead of trying to use the tool to entirely replace artists, which it was never designed to do to begin with. The moment AI art is seen like Microsoft clip art, the artists win.
@@jingbot1071 That's how I've always seen it. Though people get mad at even that apparently.
@@jingbot1071 A friend of mine, who's uncle works for a certain large animation company, has said that some people there DO use AI for storyboarding. They get the AI to make rough pictures to present for storyboarding purposes, which once things are finalized, are replaced by actual art done by people.
THAT is something I can see AI being useful for. Essentially placeholder art.
Remember the days when we thought that "at least automation will never replace creative abilities"?
4:53 Had to pause the video after that line because i was laughing so hard. It got me good, well done 😂
Kiryu is from Dentsu, an advertising megacorp known for scummy and shady practices.
It sucks that AI won't ever be used in a way where people are fairly compensated.
Like, a game where the characters respond in real time to your actual dialogue in a realistic way would be amazing...
But there is no world in which the voice actors used to build that system are fairly comoensated for it.
"A game where characters respond in real time in a realistic way to your actual dialogue would be amazing."
No. It wouldn't. This kind of betrays that you don't really understand how NPC dialogue and game writing in general works.
In a well-written game, all dialogue is very specifically written and selected for. There might be a few filler NPCs that have kind of silly joke dialogue, but most NPC dialogue will be very purposeful. It's meant to give the player specific information which is meant to support the themes of the narrative, to give the player important exposition, or both.
Being able to have random conversations based on the whims of the player does nothing to improve the writing of a game, even assuming you could get generative AI to produce something convincingly realistic, because at its best it's just cluttering the game's writing up with useless, inconsequential information.
If you want to have random conversations, talk to a human my dude.
@@Knollock "This kind of betrays that you don't really understand how NPC dialogue and game writing in general works."
Exactly and the last sentence reveals they couldn't even consider the possibility that the game could just not have voice acting.
Whenever someone asks about Square's failing on certain fads comes up, we only have to remember one thing, one thing forgotten in this video.
Final Fantasy: All The Bravest.