Given that Unity has had LLM generated code in it since at least 2023, are the group of IGF jurors declining to vote for Big Walk also going to decline to vote for all Unity games going forward?
The Underreported part of the Big Walk drama is that an apathetic or incompetent (or both) Unity employee told the devs that something wasn't possible, when it clearly was, which is a very Unity in 2026 thing to happen.
And like.. this isn't to say there aren't other 'lines' that are more permissive that don't make sense. There most certainly are. But they're less puritanical/absolutist, and thus don't fit into tweet length argumentation well.
In all honesty if we're going to run with purity tests for LLM usage in game software, that includes 'any use at all of llm code gen', you're going to just have to ban anything using Unreal/Unity versions from 2023 onward. I don't think anything else is ideologically coherent.
Which is like.. ok fine, that's a line in the sand that makes sense. I don't think the line of 'you can license external software that used it by not use it yourself' makes any sense actually. This is fundamentally incoherent.
@heylookitsalan@kalin_t if memory served it tried to basically calculate the 'base hot dog pressure' of a universe made of hot dogs, that would then be attenuated by the aperture, to calculate the incoming hot dog rate.
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The current Big Walk hoopla points to how untenable this all is. Given how much of the Adobe Suite tooling is LLM powered, there's likely many indie game artists who aren't technically literate enough to even know they're using an LLM-powered thing. Or stocks assets made w it.
Guntuber dorks have done to full auto with FRTs what Food Tubers have done with Hot Honey (and dozens more things).
It all blurs together. None of it feels special.
Y'all need to start making home made SAM launchers or something. Get my blood flowing again.
Like I just can't get over how fucking strange this is to ask someone to do, especially if you don't know them, you're not a prominent member of a community, etc.
Like what sort of main-character syndrome or socialization failure do you have to have to be walking around w this?
I don't know what's different about kids these days online, but I've gotten in the past couple months, over a dozen requests spread across a couple platforms.
Namely, random strangers asking me to put a shout-out to them, or their name, in game. What?