the pride i feel rn knows no bounds

What are your thoughts on photographers? Do you call them "clickers?" By this logic they shouldn't be able to call themselves artists either. I've done both photography and AI prompting, and the AI prompting engages far more of my artistic brain than photography does.

I am deeply interested in what devs are doing in this kind of climate - because that's awful! 😣

well this seems healthy for a storefront

Rick Rubin understands what many artists still refuse to accept. Creativity isn't in moving the brush. It's knowing what to paint. AI doesn't change that.

Yes, it is indeed. It is a nightmare working on a game for months, spend nights losing sleep, putting our jobs and personal times on the line. Then, we woke up to be called a thief. and AI slop without proper evidence and investigation. So instead of going back and forth, we’re just showing the work. Our artist has uploaded WIPs, production files and development material from Potato Please so people can see how the game was actually made. We had never seen Rado’s game before all of this. Soviet + potato isn’t something either of us invented. It’s been a meme and a cultural joke online for years. His mentioned game jam had a lot of potato themed games. We searched only google and steam when we started the project. Funny thing is Rado’s own Itch.io page has a generative AI disclosure. Potato Please was developed independently.

It’s every indie dev's worst nightmare. I created this concept for the GMTK game jam. I held off on my Steam page to obsessively polish the mechanics... and it just got cloned and shipped. Probably mostly with a simple AI prompt. Here’s my original build vs theirs 👇

These indie devs are making a first-person potato peeling game where you keep the army fed - Peel them by hand with real physics - Cut thin and do not waste any of it - Buy machines and automate the lot Game is Potato Please

thanks to @penlume and @sweis we now know when RSA-2048 will be broken without a quantum computer