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Confusing warning

Even if they're abandoned, they can still have value in what already exists. Removing them entirely would be foolish. Perhaps making them free would be a good move, but I doubt Valve actually has the authority to decide the value of someone else's product, even if it is their storefront. A warning is the best solution IMO.

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Developer of New Postal Game Shuts Down Studio After Game Was Announced, Then Canceled Over Gen AI Allegations

I read through the article. Apparently the studio shared work-in-progress content to prove it wasn't made using AI.

I don't know if they used AI or not, but this type of thing has been happening since the inception of gen AI. Shortly after the release of Stable Diffusion 1.5, moderators of r/Art were banning people who had been around for years because their art suddenly "looked like A.I." and told they should "Get a better art style."

In the intervening time, this type of thinking has spread. Just yesterday, I was watching a YouTube video, and they used a certain background in it which they had used before to no note. This time, however, one user claimed that background was A.I. That was all it took to send the comments into a deluge of hatred and accusations.

Here, though... I ask, if work-in-progress PSDs showing the in-progress art don't meet the burden of proof to sate these accusations, what does? How long will it be until the only safe form of art to avoid these accusations is a photo of a pencil sketch with a hand-written date nearby?

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YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

From what I've seen so far, the case here seems to be that it's only being done to shorts, and what's happening is that they're being permanently stored at a lower quality and size and are then upscaled on the fly. I mean... it feels kinda fair to me. Theres a good reason YouTube has so little competition, and it's because how hard and expensive maintaining a service like this is. They're always trying to cut costs, and storage is gonna be a big cost. Personally, I'm glad it's just shorts for now. It absolutely shouldn't be happening to people who are paying for the service or making money for it, though.

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The shifting pronouns midway through threw me off for a while because I couldn't track how many characters were active in the scene. Basically, though, the lord is transfem. The farmer addresses her as female (and maybe compliments her chest, not sure). She thanks him, because she was boymoding (attempting to present as male because that's what's expected of her), but the farmer recognized her as female anyway. The farmer remains entirely unaware of what happened.

I don't know what a "piss levy" is.