I’m about as anti-AI as you can get, but that wasn’t a confirmation - it was a non-answer.
And considering how many things “AI” is getting crammed into, if they’d given a definitive answer, it wouldn’t have been possible to guarantee it - because they’re not in control of every business scenario in the industry.
I am genuinely curious why people are so angry and are jumping to conclusions, willing to boycott a company that has done great things for media preservation over an inconvlusive statement about something that will likely have minimal or no effect on them, GOGs employees, or the user experience of their platform.
AI assistance is a tool. Why would they ban their developers and maintainers from using Windsurf, for instance? Or their design folks from using AI tools to help make mockups? It doesn’t make any sense. If their workforce wants to make use of AI tools responsibly… why is that a problem?
AI use does not mean they will start churning out slop. And, frankly, GOG is a software distributor/vendor… they don’t have creative control over the games they sell. The AI would be in the behind the scenes development of their platform, not in the products. The only way it’d affect users is if they put it in the user interface somehow (but… how and why would they?)
I am genuinely curious why people are so angry and are jumping to conclusions,
because GoG was just sold, and its a tale as old as time for a beloved company, to get new ownership, and immediately start making stupid decisions and ruin everything.
Because it will lead to buggy and insecure service, causing customer headaches. Imagine asking a random number generator to write your payment infrastructure!
I mean you said it in the second half but the non answer is the confirmation they will adopt it like everyone else in part because it’s become part of institutional tools
I’m about as anti-AI as you can get, but that wasn’t a confirmation - it was a non-answer.
And considering how many things “AI” is getting crammed into, if they’d given a definitive answer, it wouldn’t have been possible to guarantee it - because they’re not in control of every business scenario in the industry.
I am genuinely curious why people are so angry and are jumping to conclusions, willing to boycott a company that has done great things for media preservation over an inconvlusive statement about something that will likely have minimal or no effect on them, GOGs employees, or the user experience of their platform.
AI assistance is a tool. Why would they ban their developers and maintainers from using Windsurf, for instance? Or their design folks from using AI tools to help make mockups? It doesn’t make any sense. If their workforce wants to make use of AI tools responsibly… why is that a problem?
AI use does not mean they will start churning out slop. And, frankly, GOG is a software distributor/vendor… they don’t have creative control over the games they sell. The AI would be in the behind the scenes development of their platform, not in the products. The only way it’d affect users is if they put it in the user interface somehow (but… how and why would they?)
because GoG was just sold, and its a tale as old as time for a beloved company, to get new ownership, and immediately start making stupid decisions and ruin everything.
GOG was bought by its own co-founder Michał Kiciński not BlackRock or something.
But they already did with that ugly AI sale banner that was taking over half their front page.
Because it will lead to buggy and insecure service, causing customer headaches. Imagine asking a random number generator to write your payment infrastructure!
Or your toaster what its prefered income bracket is.
Same thing, as far as I’m concerned.
What they’re using is clearly generative AI, meant to replace artists. It would be very easy to say they were no longer going to be doing that.
I mean you said it in the second half but the non answer is the confirmation they will adopt it like everyone else in part because it’s become part of institutional tools
“adopting it” and “getting saddled with it” are two different things.