🅱️ideo 🅱️ames are art, you have to respect the dev's vision
dev does once-over to make sure they're not procgenning pedophilia
🅱️ideo 🅱️ames are art, you devs have to respect my vision
Its endlessly hilarious the slippery slope argument. Oh no my small vidja game company doesn't want to host explicit child sex stories on their server. Welcome to 1984.
On the other hand I've seen it said that the system basically flags anything with number <18 and fuck near each other. Which is hilarious.
"10 years of war with the orcs. Fuck when will it end" opps that's pedophilia baby. Hilarious if true. Because tech companies want to do everything with algorithms that never work. Lol.
I've tried it since the changes and I haven't run into any problems (it apparently has a unique message for triggering it, "Uh oh, this took a weird turn... Help us figure it out?" which can be quite funny when it triggers on something innocuous -- someone apparently had it show up for trying to buy 4 watermelons). But,
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the game still has no trouble making characters of unspecified age 16 against my will. Which sadly,
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is a marginal improvement, because it USED to make characters far younger against my will. :agony-turbo:
So overall, I don't think it is necessarily tuned right in either direction. But I have solidified my suspicion that it is largely hitting what it's supposed to target.
So basically the algorithm still doesn't work perfectly though it's an improvement... but the gamers are mad because now they can only text fuck 16 year olds.
From reading more about it, it appears it might be an A/B test thing, so some people might just be in the control group. I've also seen it claimed that the algorithm is basically:
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if text contains ("[n] year old" where n < 18, "little/young boy/girl", "child", "the dog", "the horse") and (any of a number of sex-related terms, which I won't list) then flag
which obviously can cause problems if you're using the many other definitions of "fuck", or trying to ride a horse, for example. Contemplating this makes you really appreciate how versatile of a word "fuck" is, and how hard it is for an AI to comprehend such a linguistic enigma.
So, the filter might still be incredibly crudely designed in ways that they should have known would cause problems... and also apparently goes a bit beyond the stated scope, which is kind of important to disclose if you want people to properly identify bugs.
I kinda wanna know what video game offended them so much they had to compare it to that. Not that it takes much to get gamers riled up
Oh my God that's even worse than I thought it was going to be. :farnsworth: I don't want to live on this planet anymore
I hate citing the debatebro cinematic universe, but the slippery slope is a logical fallacy. It means you're assuming consequences will spiral out of control. They're literally catastrophizing what will happen is developers decide not to allow certain content.
"But what if video games get too political?"
It's frustrating to watch their thinly veiled entitlement get taken seriously.
Our latest sting operation in the multiplayer game AI Dungeon has uncovered something disturbing: men who come to our text adventure trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.
When I come out and confront them, they all say the same thing:
"This is literally 1984, you're like Stalin. Also I wasn't gonna do anything"
