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I understand that it might be nice to be able to play old demos in your browser, and its fine, but...

Please keep AI away from the demoscene.

Ive been active in the demoscene for almost 30 years, its a big part of my life, and i am truly worried people using AI to build tools and code demos will destroy it by removing the very reason why its interesting. I want to be impressed by real peoples knowledge, skill and creativity. Not your ability to prompt.

Mostly, i hate the AI remaster option. It was never intended to look or sound like that.

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it's as if someone took the "everything you touch turns to gold" and replaced gold with sh*t and said "yeah this is a good power to have"

The reverse Midas touch.

Some might call it, the Mierdas touch.

Combined with bad taste, so they actually prefer shit to gold.

I believe there's room for both, just like there's room for tool-assisted and unassisted video game speedruns.

It's equally essential, of course, to never misrepresent one as the other.

And "remasters", again just like video games, are very much a matter of taste (on the part of both creators and consumers).

It was similar with GPUs and people got over it. It's all about art and creativity whatever you are using shaders or AI prompts

People still use old platforms without GPUs. It's a completely different art form. On a modern PC with a GPU you can render anything you want because it was solved years ago.

No, its not at all similar. Comparing shader coding with AI prompting is just dumb, sorry.

It's over. Move on. https://x.com/kloss_xyz/status/2107696042053431360

I can also buy a painting instead of painting one.

Art is never over. No matter how hard you clutch your monkey jpegs

Forgive me if I don't suddenly feel despair over a pro-AI propaganda tweet from an AI engineer and self-proclaimed "prompt shaman."

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