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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freecodeio an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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"

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doubled112 an hour ago | parent [-]

The reverse Midas touch.

	▲	ashleyn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Some might call it, the Mierdas touch.

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myth_drannon 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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varispeed an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why gatekeeping? Demoscene was always about doing the impossible with technology. Technology now is AI.

Demoscene should embrace it.

	▲	velo_aprx 21 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think i was pretty clear in my original post. Its about people doing the seemingly impossible with technology, not technology doing whats possible with technology. If you use AI, you did nothing but ask it, and i could never be impressed by that. And how would you vote in the competitions at demoparties? By tokens used? Most parties strictly forbid the use of AI in production, but im afraid some people aren't honest enough to abide to that rule.
	▲	teddyh 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Demoscene was always about doing Yes, but “doing” with AI is not actually doing it, is it? Yes, something gets done, but the end result was never the point of the demoscene. The finished product was merely the proof-of-work.