Ethics? Respect for your consumer? Can you imagine if the food industry operated under your reasoning? If the consumer can't tell that the "ground beef" is rat meat|dog meat|human flesh, what purpose does it serve to disclose it? It serves no purpose for the manufacturer.

I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't care, but you "know" some consumers don't want it. At least give them the choice.

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vegnus 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There's a massive difference between something you ingest into your body, and a silly indie video game you play on Itch. One can affect your health, the other effects only emotions

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pull_my_finger 4 hours ago | parent [-]

How about feeding a vegan (for ethical reasons) real meat without their knowledge? Is that a more fitting example? Or products built with child/slave labor?[1]

Look at the backlash received when it came out that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 used AI assets[2]. By all rights, it was a good game, even won GOTY (though later stripped for the AI usage). There are a lot of people that would not have bought it if they knew it used GenAI, and there's a lot of people that still would have.

Bottom line: Consumers deserve the right to choose.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53481253

[2]: https://www.ign.com/articles/indie-game-awards-strips-clair-...

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_aavaa_ 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, do look at the Clair Obscur frenzy. It was over placeholder textures slipping through. A newspaper clipping on a post.

This isn't about feeding the ethical vegan meat. It's about the farm workers growing the vegetables needing to be vegan themselves. If customers wish to limit their buying to only vegan food grown by vegans, that's certainly their right to choose, and those companies are free to label their products as such.

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pull_my_finger 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"They said" it was only placeholder textures. Users reported dialog seemed AI generated. Only the developers know the truth. Either way, enough people were put off by it's inclusion (in any form) that it lost GOTY and probably a lot of sales.

Regarding your "solution", that may well be a good solution. Itch.io could use a similar search filter to only return results that have a `no-gen-ai` label or similar. But unless that sort of label became an actually regulated term, I suspect if (when) the filter effected sales people would start adding it whether it were true or not. Look at how food packaging has all sorts of creative interpretations of "organic" or similar terms.

On that same thought, does the "this contains GMO ingredients" label of foods unfairly impact manufacturers? How hard is it to just responsibly disclose how something is made?

This whole argument is "you know people don't want it, and you don't want to tell people it's there because then they won't buy your thing".

	▲	_aavaa_ 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> "They said" it was only placeholder textures. Users reported dialog seemed AI generated. Only the developers know the truth. Either way, enough people were put off by it's inclusion (in any form) that it lost GOTY and probably a lot of sales. Hence a purity test that can't be passed. Did the dialog seem AI generated, or just stiff? What kind of evidence would be enough? No proof would ever be enough if you don't trust the develop when they say it was placeholder. > Regarding your "solution" I am not sure why you feel the need to put scare quotes around this version, but having an "this was made with AI" tag isn't also a "solution". It's literally the same purity test. > this contains GMO ingredients I think the comparison to GMOs is an interesting one because that one's a big nothing burger. People just have an irrational fear of GMO because it's not "natural". It's the same idiocy that leads people to religiously check for nitrites on their cured meat packaging while gladly eating it if it contains celery juice (hint they're using the celery juice for it's natural occurring nitrite).