08-14-2023, 06:18 PM
AI can mean lots of things. The ghosts chasing Pac-Man use a form of AI to find Pac-Man in the maze (or run from him when he's powered up). There's so many forms of AI baked into our day-to-day lives by now that it would be hard to "boycott" AI even if you tried (AutoComplete, grammar checkers, map apps, recommendation engines, and so forth).
Over the past year, the AI that's gotten the most attention has been generative AI - AI that uses neural networks or similar technologies to create content, whether it's text, images, audio, or video. Some of these things can be pretty interesting, but they also raise some sticky ethical issues. There's the fear that generative AI could displace human creativity, putting skilled artists out of work or flooding the Internet with low-quality content (and, ironically, potentially ruining the training sets of the next generation of AI tools!). There's also the issue that a lot of AI tools were trained on copyrighted material without the knowledge or consent of the original creators (in particular, small creators).
I can understand why you might use AI aids for getting voice acting for a fangame - you're not making money off these games, and since you're not making money from them, it's not really feasible to hire someone to do voice acting or to beg someone to do lots of free work for you.
I suspect it won't be long before MFGG starts getting actual submissions made with AI. I think graphics, sounds, or how-tos made solely with AI would probably be declined - all submissions must be your own work, and most AI-made assets I've seen would be hard to use in a typical Mario fangame. I'm sure there will be a lot of discussions in the future about where to draw the line with AI-made content - I've seen a lot of discussions about this topic on OpenGameArt, for example.
(And yes, Elon did break Twitter embeds - that's why we had to remove the MFGG Twitter plugin from the index page.)
Over the past year, the AI that's gotten the most attention has been generative AI - AI that uses neural networks or similar technologies to create content, whether it's text, images, audio, or video. Some of these things can be pretty interesting, but they also raise some sticky ethical issues. There's the fear that generative AI could displace human creativity, putting skilled artists out of work or flooding the Internet with low-quality content (and, ironically, potentially ruining the training sets of the next generation of AI tools!). There's also the issue that a lot of AI tools were trained on copyrighted material without the knowledge or consent of the original creators (in particular, small creators).
I can understand why you might use AI aids for getting voice acting for a fangame - you're not making money off these games, and since you're not making money from them, it's not really feasible to hire someone to do voice acting or to beg someone to do lots of free work for you.
I suspect it won't be long before MFGG starts getting actual submissions made with AI. I think graphics, sounds, or how-tos made solely with AI would probably be declined - all submissions must be your own work, and most AI-made assets I've seen would be hard to use in a typical Mario fangame. I'm sure there will be a lot of discussions in the future about where to draw the line with AI-made content - I've seen a lot of discussions about this topic on OpenGameArt, for example.
(And yes, Elon did break Twitter embeds - that's why we had to remove the MFGG Twitter plugin from the index page.)
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