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  • My thoughts about this. Not sure if that’s just confirmation bias, as I’ve always been a generalist, but I found, in a professional environment, it’s difficult to survive and find a place. The flexibility was removed by optimization and workload division. Not sure who’s to blame, as a lot of this is happening naturally. Most big companies become soulless, simply because of shire the size of them. Too many processes going on to have a single human brain able to fully understand. You’ll need to split up work to not lose the overview.

    One thing I’ve noticed is, that companies have a hard time figuring out how to attract generalists, as there is only that one vacancy and it’s open to fit the role of a specialist. Generalists are hard to gasp for the HR, as all they rely on is working by protocol and checking how many certificates one aquired. For instance, I’ve done and learned so many things by doing, but hardly a boring course certificate to prove it.

    Generalists show how good games really can be if they work in small indie teams. I’m a personal fan of companies like Coffee Stain Studio, Raw Fury or Paradox, as they feel more grounded and healthy. I don’t think that’s rosa glasses, as the way they interact with their communities, has shown there’s a fire of dedication behind them. You have more people work on similar things because of the lack of manpower. (We can only pray someone like Embracer doesn’t destroy them)

    Now is it the way to maximize profit and creative games at the same time? Probably not, else they’d create 100 indie studios for the price of one AAA studio, right? On the other hand, on average, 9 of 10 games I buy nowadays are from some indie company.

    This also leads to another current issue: games becoming too big for AAA producers, but that’s another can of worms.


  • I’m pro AI, I see a lot potential in it. I actively use AI daily by now, be it YT algorithm, AI image generation or chatbots for a quick search. But full automated AI with access to weapons should never be a thing. It’s like giving a toddler a sharp knife and you never know who gets stabbed. Sure humans do error, but humans also are more patient and will stop if they aren’t sure. It’s better to have a pilot not bomb the house instead of accidentally bombing a playground with kids, because the AI had a hickup.





  • I have a hard time taking anyone talking about AI regulations seriously. Unregulated AI is already out there and you don’t get the ghost back into the bottle, it’s already working beyond all regulations and laws. Deep fake porn and the environmental cost, both seam to be things we need to accept, I don’t see them being worse than Crypto mining energy waste (which thankfully is slowing down) or already existing porn on the internet. Deep fakes make it even possible to have a deniability claim, once your real porn got out there, which is a positive thing as you could always claim it to be fake, reducing the possibility of blackmailing.

    AI art, music are the things that will be replaced to large extend, as the results we have already are really good. Now human art will still be desired by some, but it will become rare and people will do this as hobby from now on. Thing is, good AI art as of now still needs a bit of a technical understanding and time generating, much less than before, but I don’t think this can fully go away, even if you add the names of an artist to a prompt. You need to understand a composition and the technical background.

    Hard to predict the future, but creating something unique, the AI doesn’t fully know yet, is still challenging. Stuff like Stock photos, (thankfully) will be replaced, as anyone can just add prompts to generate generic images, and in future videos.

    The writing part is the most concerning, as most nations lack an independent news outlet. For example in Germany we have the Rundfunkbeitrag, which pays for state independent news. It’s pretty resistant to fake news and as neutral as it gets, compared to the commercial news out there, who’s goal it is to generate outrage to sell clicks.

    No matter what, there’s going to be a time, where too many people are not up to date yet, but we’ll also have enough people able to manipulate context via AI. People will need time to adjust. Only after this time of unrest most people will understand what’s true and important. Maybe it will have unintended effects we don’t know yet. What if conspiracy completely dies out as anyone can generate conspiracy text or anti-conspiracy text, making them all look like fools? What if we need more people fact checking and image/videos for error checking? What if we need more people who can understand the difference between a generic script and a good one? It’s like with machines, people used to do all the stuff by hand, now a machine does it, but we need more people who fix and control the machines. Yes it’s on a whole new level, the unemployment rate might be hit the hardest by this. The more we automatize stuff, the more we need to talk about UBC, unconditional basic income.