AI-assisted development is bringing old games to platforms we'd never have thought possible. That's exciting, but the growing flood of unfinished ports is beginning to raise an uncomfortable question: how many of these games are actually worth playing?
  • _NetNomad@fedia.io
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    14 days ago

    AI isn’t the problem on its own

    I can accept a plagiarism machine that is exaberatting multiple international crises, but I draw the line at too many posts on a subreddit!

    like c’mon, i’m also frustrated at what’s going on in retro dev communities, but that’s small potatoes compared to just about everything else concerning LLMs

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.socialEnglish
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    14 days ago

    All of F(L)OSS has a slop problem right now.

    Everything has a slop problem right now.

    I can’t even take part in any pro/contra AI-assisted coding (see, I’m trying to be polite) discussions because whenever I admit that the other person has a point, I remember AI’s political, social and environmental impact, and i’m back to nope. And I can’t separate local models from all that, not completely. Maybe in 10 years when US corporate fascism is quenched for good.

  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
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    14 days ago

    People like to hate on everything AI, but where is the problem here? You are getting ports of games. Which is awesome. The project might be abandoned by the dev sometime in the future, but that is also happening with every other hobby project out there. And those ports are also not taking that many tokens to produce, so even the energy consumption argument is not really working here. Someone going on a ski trip will produce much, much more CO2 than someone creating a port from home.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      but where is the problem here? You are getting ports of games.

      One of the questions the author asks is exactly that, are you really getting ports of games?

      how many people are actually playing these AI-assisted ports? Not watching demonstrations, not congratulating their creators, but installing them, putting significant time into them and enjoying the games themselves.

      The author doesn’t have an answer, but it is a question that requires further investigation.

      If instead of AI we had a magical machine that gave you a bike. That’s great! You can do all sorts of things with your bike. So you hop on down to the movie theater, but the wheels fall off half way. You can’t fix the bike, so you walk home and miss the movie.

      Now you’re right that any hobby project might get abandoned. But there were also generally only a few hobby projects. They had different reputations and track records.

      Back to our bike example. Now we have hundreds of thousands of different bikes being printed from our magical machine. How do we pick the right one? What if all the bikes fail? What if there are a few that are good? How do we find the good ones?

      The answer here might just be waiting to see how this all shakes out. Everyone has an oven at home, and everyone can make cookies. It’s great that everyone can do that. But not everyone can be a baker. Or I’m wrong. Maybe with AI everyone can be a baker. That is one of the arguments.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 days ago

    How many of the games were worth playing on the original platform?

    This is a form of preservation. Let people enjoy things.