Originally Posted by kq76
I've lived in Australia. I was once engaged to an Australian. You guys really don't talk all that different from us North Americans. Go ahead and talk like you do. Some will likely appreciate it, some likely won't. It's no big deal. Either way, what makes us different often makes us better, or at least more interesting. I'm proudly Canadian and I'm damn sure not giving up the way I talk or spell just to fit in anywhere.
And that's a headscratcher for me. I don't at all see AI as a "communication tool" and I'm surprised some do (your account isn't the first to use it to post with). I see it as a research tool. And I use AI a lot, maybe too much even. I'm just addicted to learning and so I use it to learn things faster than I could before. But I still realize I can't trust everything I read by it. If something's really important, I know to dig deeper for a human expert source.
Something I failed to also point out in my previous post is a lot of people are also fed up with being duped by AI. It was bad enough when it was being used sparingly in places where we'd rather see humans doing the work, like in movies, but now lots of people are playing off AI output as their own and it's incredibly disingenuous.
I was at an art fair recently and what I saw was wholly different from what I saw 20 years ago. Back then you would have seen lots of posters one would recognize as being prints of classic paintings or posters done by famous and not so famous people and today it's largely a bunch of AI slop that people are pretending to have created themselves. It was infuriating to be honest. Like what happens to the real future artists once all the art we see is AI slop? People falsely complained years ago that everything then was derivative, what happens when all we truly have is derivative? It's not a bright future. I can't draw a circle to save my life, but I admire true artists maybe more than any other profession and I hate to think what we're doing to them and the future of art in general.
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But no, it's not so much "don't use it" on the boards, it's just "use it wisely, productively, honestly". Like I've seen some people use it to prove a point, like something that maybe they themselves couldn't have done the work to investigate, and that's great. But even when they've used it, they made it clear that they got it from AI and which AI. That way people can look at it, take it for it's worth, and maybe investigate it further or not.
I dunno. As crude as he came off, I'm kind of with Carplos on this. Does it really matter? I mean, we're on OOTP26 and most of us are probably pretty confident that there's going to be an OOTP27, and probably a 28, a 29, a 30. Who knows how many. And while the truth might be far from that (I really don't know either way so no one read anything into this), once you're in the 26th iteration of a sports game I think it's easy to take for granted that nothing really matters, there'll be another one and it'll be what it'll be.
I admit, however, that's wrong. It would be nice if OOTP was covered more, regardless of however much it is covered, not so much because it would make OOTP more money, but because it would attract more people to the community and maybe one of those extra people would be another eriqjaffe, gmo, silvam14, Will Beh, or whatever kind of contributor you greatly value.
Honestly, I'm just not overly concerned with the question and if it wasn't for your post coming off as AI I probably wouldn't have engaged any further with the thread. I don't even know if what you say is true. Maybe you're just mistaken in your perception. Maybe OOTP has numbers that show OOTP has never been covered more than it has this past year. I have no idea. And really, it's on them to seek out more coverage or not. Maybe they don't see seeking out more as being worth the effort or money. The franchise is clearly already well established. If you're at all interested in a baseball sim, you'll probably find out about OOTP without much, if any, effort. Your concern might be warranted, but it very well might not be.
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