Samuele Panzeri

I’m going to try to engage in good faith here because I think it’s important to have an open and reasonable conversation. For context, I personally don’t use AI for anything other than as a google replacement. I’m working on a game where we are writing all the code by hand. As a musician, I find AI generated music repulsive and I wish we could go back to a time before it existed. But this is not a strawman argument. If you’re going to boycott devs for asking chatgpt a question about a game engine, but you’re not boycotting 100% of games that are built with engines or tools full of AI code (which btw at this point, is both unity and unreal) then you’re simply laundering your ethics through another company. There is a very good chance that House House unintentionally used orders of magnitude more AI generated code through their dependencies like the engine, libraries, tools etc than they are getting cancelled for using in their own code. The reality is that software as a discipline is incredibly interdependent in a way that other disciplines aren’t. A modern software product contains and relies on many multiples more code imported unscrutinised than it does code written specifically for the actual product itself. This means that it’s functionally impossible to maintain any degree of “purity”. Which is the entire reason that steam doesn’t require AI disclosure for software the same way they for art & music. What people should be focusing on is the low effort slop flooding the platforms, and the use of AI to steal, impersonate and lay off artists of all disciplines. Attempting to cancel a fantastic, quality focused indie developer who for all intents and purposes didn’t even “generate” any code that was used in the final product, just for talking to a chatbot one time, poisons the well for everyone. If you actually care about this issue you should be focusing your energy and effort elsewhere.

Part of me believes this has to be a false flag operation to de-legitimise the AI disclosure tag because the alternative is just too stupid. It’s functionally impossible to avoid interacting with AI in some way or another when developing software.