Topic: The State of the Industry

@graymamba
And this was before the onslaught of AI can you imagine what a tough time lecturers must have these days, might you they are probably using AI to mark the papers.
Who marks the markers?

I can imagine the AI bot saying to the other bot, “did you write this?”, “yes but it isn’t my finest work, I’ve learnt so much more since then”.

@graymamba That's a grim watch. I'm hoping the comment section is mostly bots though as the amount thinking actual journalists are just as bad as AI is depressing.

@CaptD it’s like you (admittedly in humour) suggested in our group chat the other day, it wouldn’t surprise me if the new hard of Xbox isn’t AI. I ain’t seen her in person 🤷‍♂️.

@BearsEatBeets I know mate, it’s shocking! And the more imposing thought is, that this kinda thing is just gonna become more and more prevalent.

@graymamba Crazy. If it’s all for clicks, I have to ask, who’s clicking? Why does the market drive low effort content? Isn’t it utterly bizarre to live in an age where a game releases; I can look up an aggregate score to get a sense of how it’s been received, move on to an opinion piece by YouTuber X, look at sales to judge its impact and watch a let’s play coloured by a strangers experience in an attempt to, for all intents and purposes, convince my brain that I’ve played it. I can then proceed to an online platform where I can have an entire discussion about the merits of said game - without even once having actually touched the thing - with a stranger who also has never actually touched the thing we’re discussing the merits of, completely bypassing the part where our brains critically deduce an opinion experientially, instead reinforcing the attention-seeking behaviour at the heart of the click based learned model foundation driving the A.I. that is exploiting the worst parts of our nature by simply imitating us. And round and round we go… (apologies, that was a bit rant-ish😬).

@graymamba If you want a laugh, the night they announced Phil leaving Xbox I thought it said he was being replaced by A.I. and didn't even think anything of it because it seemed like something Microsoft would do. It took about 2 days until I realized they meant their A.I. head/or whatever they are. I didn't read the comments because I'd been out that night and when I looked the numbers had blown up. We recently have an AI-Generated News Satire Show now on State TV. It looks really convincing. I think, though I shouldn't say this, I think we had A.I. news readers at one point too. I know now it's propaganda but A.I. isn't helping, I'm shown all sorts of things that make me wonder. It's not even naivety, it's the sheer volume of what I'm sent or see and then just nod and 'yes of course' my way through it. If it's A.I. it's really convincing.