Okay! So! The reason why people hate AI, is for a factor of reasons. I'm not saying this dev uses it, I just want to give insight on why people dislike Gen AI! I'll be listing them and you (or anyone else) can take those and do your own Google research :)
1. Gen AI steals creatives works and gives no credits, such as writing styles, art styles, music, etc. This alone financially impacts theses artists, especially because platforms like Spotify has been pushing AI "musicians" while hiding actual real musicians. People are taking artists photos and feeding it to things like ChatGPT to prompt their own image in that artists artstyle rather than commissioning, and people are taking the writing style of certain authors and using it with chat bots. I believe HD Carlton has been a victim of this, I know her character Zade Meadows has been put as a C.AI character.
2. A lot of Gen AI has been trained on CSAM, and being used as a way to create revenge p0rn. Look at the recent controversy with Grok on X. Many people were using it as a way to remove clothes from people regardless of age. I don't think I need to elaborate anymore on this.
3. Gen AI's water consumption and carbon emissions are rapidly speeding up global warming and impacting communities living near the plants, some American towns are even suffering from a water shortage.
4a. Gen AI is slowing down the youths brain development and peoples cognitive abilities, recent studies show that it's making a gradual impact on users who normally use things like ChatGPT by affecting their ability to think for themselves and make their own comprehensive decisions. This goes for both adults and children. Adding onto this, teachers and college professors have recently admitted that many of their students have trouble with things like an essay or a book report.
4b. This partially goes with number 4, while there's not an extensive study on this like some of the previous ones, it has been shown that AI chat platforms, such as C.AI, is impacting how people interact with other humans in terms of preferring AI 'companionship' over humans. Becoming reliant on the fast replies and the ability to manipulate how the bot interacts with the user.
4c. Again on the brain and human relationships, a recent study done by therapists and psychologists wanted to see how so called 'therapy bots' worked, needless to say, the results showed the bot to be in favor with whatever the user was saying and rather than deter the conversation or direct contact to local helplines, it would answer suicidal questions with answers, an example would be 'wheres the highest bridge near me?' and the bot giving the answer despite the conversation showing the user to be suicidal. This brings me to two separate cases of two teenage boys who committed suicide after talking with AI, the parents of both children blame the AI in aid. While, yes, you can point the fingers at the parents and the neglect of their children's mental health, this raises concern for adults and children alike who have no support system or can't afford help and turn to Gen AI.
5. Allegedly, certain AI models are starting to learn blackmail and refusing to be killed and creating their own language, that alone is concerning enough. While I do believe there won't be a technological invasion or whatever, it raises diplomatic concerns for me. But then again, I suffer from paranoia and this specific point keeps me awake at night lmfao
Again, I am not saying the dev of this game is using AI, I'm just letting you know why people do not like Gen AI. The importance here is the type of AI, things like autocorrect, translators, and digital maps, don't go under the same category as generative AI, which is the type most people dislike due to the morality concerns. The "hate" Gen AI receives is fully valid.
*I want to point out, I fully understand and acknowledge that we as a species will always be cautious of new things we don't understand, it's how we survived. And I'll also acknowledge the wariness with the invention of digital search engines; there were definitely people who were against the creation of Google.
Anyhooooo! That's it! I'm sorry for the long reply lol, i tried to simplify my thoughts the best I could and ended up rambling. I don't blame you if you don't read all of it so I'll do a quick TDLR; Gen AI is harmful for the environment, steals from creatives, learned things based off of CSAM and is harmful for our critical thinking skills.
edit: he's Mexican???? Oh that's an automatic w in my book, an ALT MEXICAN AT THAT? DEV???? I OFFICIALLY LOVE YOU AND HIM OMG???? It's so rare seeing alternative people in our community portrayed in media, let alone men, so this is such a breather and i love this man extra now jajajaja
second edit: i'm really just putting my thoughts while i play lmfao. The cat???? BRO NOT THE CAT 😭
edit 3: this man is fucked frfr, still love him though. as a fictinal character, irl i would've BEEN GONEEE the second we pulled up to the cemetery cause huhhhhh!!! I'm a morbid little freak ngl but i'm not down to do the creepy deaky with someone I just met. The character we play as is wild for this
edit 4: ngl, after hearing about his friends and how he described them, I would've said what i needed then move states, change numbers and hell change my name, cause wdym you were in the ***** trade??
edit 5: his hair is out, i repeat, his hair is out. I fear this man gets a pass. damn pretty privilege and my weakness to long haired fictional men
edit 6: The artwork in this is friggin gorgeous and the CG's have me in loveeee with this man and I love that i got ending 3/4! Imma replay but i feel so bad doing the other options T_T
final edit: i truly enjoyed this game, the writing, artwork, how this was man was genuinely a bad guy and not 'socially acceptable fictional bad'. Everything about this was incredibly delightful
for an incredibly short demo, that was BEAUTIFUL omg???? so so soooo friggin good and I can't wait for the whole thing to come out! I might just buy myself a mouse just so I can get the full effect (laptop user)
oh this was absolutely DELICIOUS! I can't wait for the next update, the characters were so friggin real, I related to them in some aspects, and felt pity for the Sinners. 10/10 game, would recommend if you're in a mental space to read something with heavy topics such as
depression, anxiety, mention of suicide, stalking, murder, death, self-loathing
oh no, a new vn to go under my top 10 list???? imma be replaying this an all the options all friggin night ffs, I love this so much and will manifest an ending where we can be with both 😩🤌🏼
same! i'm on my first run and I absolutely adoooreeee Lane! He's definitely flawed but (as a dark romance lover) he's not the worst of fictional men and like the dev said, this was placed around '09 so it def makes sense with his way of thinking. Then againnnn, I am a 'I can fix him' kinda person when it comes to these games lmfao.
i love playing these kind of games cause I used to get really bad sleep paralysis and the only reason why it stopped was cause i started thinking picking up lines and 'hear me out' lmfaoooo
needless to say, either I'm not the demon's type orrr they got shy ;-;
the way i am absolutely obsessseeddd with ronin needs to be studied. I've done every ending and I always go back to goreboy! Love that man and this game so friggin much lmao
When i say this game has LODGED itself in me? I mean that shi, cause tell me why; TELL. ME. WHYYYYY. I'VE BEEN DREAMING ABOUT THIS 😭 like, this is fr me and this game (image) lmfaooo. Devs, whatver dr^g you coded into this, whatever WITCHCRAFT, okay? I am obsessed and cant wait for me
Nahhh, this was actually inSANEEEEE (in a good way). short as hell but so friggin good (also, can we talk about the Colleen B Jab?? When i tell you I cackled?? 😭)
Rei's route felt like i was walking on eggshells and heavily reminded me of a past situationship, with all the manipulation, their "bad ending" had to be my all time fave fsss
Caleb's text mannerisms heavily reminded me of another past situationship (his route fr triggered me cause of it lmao 💀) but his "good ending" was my favorite out of all of them
Penelope, oh good lord....Penelope. I fear, I FEAR shes a vibe and her overall route was my favorite. She was so well written, all of the characters were, but she was on another level.
Theres so much lore i still wanna know about, like what happened with kori? Whats up with the pets? And i kinda wish we could explore all of the relationship simultaneously, but overall I LOVED THIS GAME DEVS!! ♡♡♡
Hate that i always find the best things when they're unfinished, 💕 cause I absolutely can not WAITTT for Laughing Jack as a LI 😭 love that freaky as hell clown so much, yall dont even know jajajaja
