Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/active-matter-developers-put-up-an-incredibly-distasteful-ai-notice-on-steam/

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61 Comments

HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 59 pts · 1d (61 replies)

In-game AI character Ms. Second is using AI generated voice. Using humans voices for AI character would be cultural appropriation.

I feel liket they're trying to be funny, but when you're actually hurting artists the joke doesn't land. Also, the joke feels rather... right wing.

brb@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1d (2 replies)

The joke is stupid, but using AI voice for AI character really just makes sense

bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 23h

Perhaps the only time that it really does make sense. But the joke is dumb and charged enough that I won't be playing.

Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1d

Especially if you use a cheap model that sounds clearly AI…

Dumb joke, but I can’t get rabid anti-AI about this usage…

Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 23h

What's crazy is the replies in the updates... Like, they are trying to spin it that they weren't making a joke, they are 100% serious about not wanting to offend the clankers because "AGI Is right around the corner".

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -28 pts · 1d (56 replies)
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eurodyne@piefed.world · 21 pts · 1d (34 replies)

You say while literally language policing…

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -9 pts · 1d (33 replies)

Good lord, this is too tedious to explain.

eurodyne@piefed.world · 12 pts · 1d (32 replies)

Obviously absurd hypocrisy requires no explanation

Although I do feel a little bit let down that I’m not gonna get another ridiculous song and dance from you

:’(

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -8 pts · 1d (31 replies)

Oh, do we have a history?

eurodyne@piefed.world · 7 pts · 1d (30 replies)

Jumping from hypocrisy right to wishful thinking… How adventurous of you

homes@piefed.world · 6 pts · 1d

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 1d

Well, this was a pretty minimal effort for me as far singing & dancing goes, so I thought you'd seen one of my more command performances to be as disappointed as you are.

HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Angry language-policing? I don't follow, sorry. Are you talking about me saying the joke felt "right-wing"?

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -9 pts · 1d

Not you, necessarily, but the fact that this is even an issue. This whole thing is just language policing. I get it, I think it's insensitive, but I also think you have to pick your battles and jumping down people's throats like this just makes them enemies. There's plenty of people who are consciously and actively trying to make the world a worse place and not just making casual jokes without challenging their underlying assumptions.

bklyn@piefed.social · 12 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Edit: I see you are all on a hate train and here is no different than reddit. Get in the way of the hate train and get plastered.

You must be plastered if you thought you could flee Reddit and come here and get away with trying to sling this kind of bullshit without being called out on it

If you keep smelling shit everywhere you go, check your shoes

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -8 pts · 1d

You're welcome.

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 9 pts · 1d (14 replies)

You're right, it is terrible here, you should probably go somewhere else.

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 1d (13 replies)

Well, aren´t you a profile in courage.

eurodyne@piefed.world · 7 pts · 1d (12 replies)

You fled Reddit because they wouldn’t buy your bullshit, then came here to find out that we wouldn’t either. And now you’re throwing a tantrum about it.

What would you know about courage?

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 1d (11 replies)

And now you're going through the thread to find other comments you can respond to with insults. Amazing. If your hate boner lasts much longer, I'd consider seeing a doctor.

eurodyne@piefed.world · 4 pts · 1d (10 replies)

If you had enough self-awareness to see a doctor, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 1d

Sorry, I don't see the connection?

Mac@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Downvoted for your moronic edit. lmao
Take the hint: go back to Reddit.

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 1d

nice of them to announce that the devs are fucking asshole right wing clowns up front.