Gwen

Dumbass in a dumb land

  • She/Her

I was born in the late Holocene and I've seen some shit



love
@love

The thing is that, like, I don't even care about traditional ethical procedural generated content anymore. All art that's ever existed is fundamentally built on you deciding to respond to its component words and images and interpreting it charitably as something that deserves to have the gaps filled in to make it something that feels real to you—why would I want to grant that kind of grace to machine-generated content even in a harmless context, when it just reminds me of an entire world of people trying to destroy all art as we know it is also trying to take advantage of that kind of grace? I don't even wanna play roguelikes anymore, man. Show me something another person thought would specifically be meaningful, show me nothing but handcrafted moments, I want art to remind me of how beautiful the intentionality of another human's touch can be. That's all I've got grace for right now.



kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

Note: This is not to argue with anybody or contest any particular takes that are going around. This is not vaguebugging, I promise.

I think it's important not to fall into the trap of privileging some modes of media creation over others on the grounds that one is more "real" or "authentic" etc. That's a fucking trap. I do think it's really important to focus on whether and how a work exploits/steals labor, whether through scraping or the many other ways in which labor has always been stolen.

For whose benefit, at whose expense.