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No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

AI techbros will have you believe that you can solve world hunger, cure cancer, and colonize Mars with a few prompts on ChatGPT.

Yet their AI is still incapable of answering two prompts consecutively without making shit up, or drawing a human without turning it into an eldritch abomination.

Game preservation could be fixed with open source emulators and fixing copyright laws so that I'm allowed to download a game nobody has profited from in two decades, but that's not appealing to big corporations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah, instead game preservation is being solved by abandonware and copyright infringement.

Legal open source software is doing the heavy lifting, and then torrenting is sharing by he files. But there is a huge risk as there is no safety net to preserve the niche and unpopular games.

The game publishers and broken copyright laws are blocks to preservation but fortunately people are just doing it anyway. And the more the big companies push against it (including targeting emulation systems for current systems) the more they push it underground and out of any control they might have had. Typical greed and stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

AI techbros will have you believe that you can solve world hunger, cure cancer

And yet they don't. Well, we already know how to solve world hunger. Just not a willingness.

Researchers are using AI as an additional tool for discovering new drugs, but the techbros and pharmabros are going to be over charging for any new cures even if they become cheaper to discover.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

I'm honestly somewhat offended at the mere suggestion that this could be acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Guys, it's okay. Sure, it sounds bad that we somehow let the complete works of William Shakespeare disappear from the planet. But we have a new data center with a billion monkeys on typewriters. Give them some time, and they're bound to stumble upon that old stuff eventually.

Edit : love that one guy who found a couple people critical of one of the most ridiculous claim about generative AI yet and decided to downvote everyone without a word.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

AI can make Shakespeare BETTER! Like it can put it in modern text speak, and shorten it down to fit in a 30 second tiktok, plus give space for ad breaks and temu product placement. AI will help enhance user engagement with Shakespeare and also leverage new monetisation options and cross platform synergies.

All we have to do is let people copyright AI made content because ultimately it wasn't Shakespeare that did the hard work, it was the AI tech Bros who transformed it into a modern content meme and raised 3rd quarter profits for everyone!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

You've convinced me brother. Buying 3 Lady Macbeth NFTs for my metaverse Web 3.0 gatcha play-to-earn game right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

30 seconds? You better put some Subway Surfers there or I'm out.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One thing Phil Spencer does not seem to care about is emulation. There are already Xbox and PlayStation emulators that allow access to more of both platforms back catalogues than any of the current generation consoles are capable of..

Xbox could build cloud based emulators off the open source tools already available and make their entire Xbox back catalogue accessible to current users to stream. They could help improve the tools to ensure greater and greater compatibility for titles and then it would be there forever.

The reason it doesn't happen is money. They dont see money in game preservation so they dont bother beyond a few big name nostalgia hits. Muse AI isn't about game preservation, its about game development - they're just pissing around with game preservation to feed it content as a punt on the future for it somehow making game development cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I can't say I buy this fully. From a marketkng standpoint, it seems like a huge win: "Subscribe to game pass ultimate and you get thousands of games old and new, up by thousands from last year". From a financial standpoint, running those emulators should be a lot less compute heavy than current games so it should be cheaper.

The only real issue I see here is legal. Licensing the rights to distribute the games via streaming for their entire back catalogue can't be easy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You must not follow US politics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

If I had a nickel for every dumb thing that went on in US politics, I'd be filthy rich.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Oh OK, he's trying to sell something, what a surprise...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

XenonRecomp > Phil's AI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

i agree with the headline. strongly. didn't read the article.

btw is tech dirt still funded by (one of) Koch bros?

edit: honestly, just checking. won't complain, whatever the answer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

According to their Wikipedia, Techdirt only accepted money from Charles Koch's foundation for a lawsuit (amongst other donors), and are owned by Floor64.

Floor 64's website only has 2 people listed in their management team, but I couldn't dig up if either are linked to the Koch's (I was pretty cursory about it though).

The article was worth a read for this quote alone:

VGHF library director Phil Salvador puts it even more simply: “Generative AI video is a great way to preserve video games, in the sense that mirages are a great source of water.”