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Comment by sergioisidoro | Hacker News Reader

This is crazy. Tools like photoshoot have gen ai tools in them. Does that mean that Photoshop is now a minefield for artists? If a single artist uses the wrong tool once they disqualify the entire final product for awards, even if the asset is fully removed on the final build.

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IDEs now have “AI” autocomplete; will a game become ineligible if a single dev accidentally presses tab instead of writing the whole function by hand? If a script writer uses ChatGPT to generate ideas, straight up ban?

Where does the organisation intend to draw the line?

Better blacklist Google as well. You don't want anyone on the team searching anything on Google lest their search accidentally triggers the LLM response (meaning: they prompted Google Gemini).

They don't. Because selling hate does not draw lines.

> Where does the organisation intend to draw the line?

The answer to this question is always "somewhere". Just because I can't proclaim an exact number of trees that constitute a forest doesn't mean the concept doesn't exist.

> doesn't mean the concept doesn't exist.

No, but it becomes a dubious concept when you define forests as a collection of only conifer trees and that deciduous trees don't count for the definition of a forest.

Ultimately this move might have just been to increase visibility for an otherwise niche awards show (which it has clearly done). Also by eliminating the obvious best indie game of the year -- it opens up the field a bit to more "normal" contenders. Expedition 33 is basically a AAA-quality game, its only considered "indie" because a small unknown team made it.

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