I’m pretty sure that you could make a realistic game where all plants & buildings etc use AI generated textures & no one would ever notice. Basic assets like these can be generated very well with great variety & this has never been art. Some people just grabbed a camera & took photos of bricks, houses & plants on the street & in the wild & then uploaded their work to an asset store.

Anyway compared to AI assisted game development there are so many worse things in the industry. Like gacha mobile games or denuvo. Also I think people are super naive to think that studios above a certain size (like 20 employees) would even be able to make games without using AI at all. There would be always at least 1 employee that would find ways to speed up their work in secret, typically way more than just one.

You can just buy second hand an aging android phone for this task, €50 gets you something usable for basic entertainment purposes.

It’s pretty much guaranteed that many AAA games out over the past 2 years had AI generated elements. Though finding these is not plausible. Telling about separate grass or tile textures if they are AI generated or taken from the asset store, or god forgive Ai generated assets taken from the asset store is basically impossible.

Alternatively imagine if an artist draws a concept art of an in game item & then uses image generation for creating the actual game assets. How will anyone find out?

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If they started doing what you are implying with the current level of their Ai, then they could file for bankruptcy a few months later. Serving clearly marked, but super well aimed ads is their best bet right now I would think.

With the dumpster fire that is ios 26, perhaps it won’t happen.

Humans are generally quite awful & even the kindest nicest people are terrible sometimes. Put together hundreds of humans & It’s guaranteed some of them will be awful+ & drama is guaranteed even if everyone is above average nice, so no there is no such usable operating system.

I don’t think most customers -for real- are disliking the new capabilities however limited they think they are. It’s just the force feeding and there are also security & performance concerns. All the while Windows is on an enshittification death spiral even without Ai.

I just use localsend.

The shareholders may force them to bend tbh.

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I don’t follow. Why do you think a game like this years after gta6 couldn’t be a financial sucess?

I’m not so sure. When it comes to a conscious decision to either pirate or buy, crap like this often helps with the guilt.

CS6 has better content aware filters than Affinity and those may never get updates now, since AI can do them better. This is not even an unreasonable take, but sub…

The fourth one has a shockingly good electronic soundtrack.

I’m extremely happy about point 4. That’s by far the most important part of this fight.

I don’t know if Irfan View is open source or not, but it is free & it’s perfect for viewing & quick simple edits. Sometimes I fire up a VM to run it on Linux for some niche tasks.

Malicious actors will still succeed in registering their apps, so the whole thing is only good for control.

I think It’s on their charter that no matter how much corporate money they’ll get they’ll never accept any outside influence just the same. The donators are amply warned to not expect anything other than development as usual or faster.

How ancient is your arch install? Are you even on pipewire? That’s what you need for stable good quality bluetooth audio, pulse is awful by comparison.