Quoting: juliandelphiki

Quoting: scaineGonna nitpick here, but

Speaking on X/Twitter

...actually puts me off caring about this game. I know it's shallow, but there it is. I don't care if you're "reaching your audience" - first of all, you're not reaching me, and second of all, you're helping fund and justify the child porn platform.

I wonder what it'll take for genuine brands to realise that association with Musk's toxic hellscape rubs off on them. At least for me.

You are definitely more than welcome to your position, but I'm genuinely curious why would you black list a developer for trying to pitch their game? You can follow them on multiple social media platforms, including bluesky and 7 or so others, if that's your thing, and there are hundreds of millions of people to market to on these other platforms.

Not quite a black list, but I think less of them. Twitter's response to users creating child porn imagery in grok wasn't to fix the tech, or ban the users. No, they put the capability behind a paywall, so grok will still generate these images, but now you have to pay for it. Which actually sounds worse when you say it out loud.

Quoting: juliandelphikiPersonally, I don't do the social media thing as I believe it is the worst thing to happen to humanity across our entire history, but I don't begrudge anyone for trying to reach potential customers.

Sorry to say, but the fact you don't do social media is pretty obvious. Hypixel made this announcement on Twitter, but didn't do so on their Bluesky account, or even Insta. Hell, they didn't even post this on their own forums! That's just numbers of course - they don't even have a thousand followers on Bluesky, compared to half a million on Twitter. But if they closed Twitter, people would follow them to wherever they're active. They don't want to take that risk, clearly. And so, I judge them for that decision.

Quoting: juliandelphikiOn the other note, trying to hold a company's feet to the fire because of a horrific AI error.

It wasn't an error. It's a conscious decision by Musk to allow his AI to generate child porn.

Quoting: juliandelphikiI like to hear as much from those who disagree with me as I can and talk to people in person about it, because otherwise the echo chamber just forces you into compliance/group think with no innovation or real improvements to your ideology.

I disagree. You don't argue with fascists. Again, it's clear you don't do social media, since any engagement with fascists will result in abuse and dogpiling.

You also don't debate paedophiles. Why would you? Lock them up.

So when I say that a brand is tarnished for being on the child porn platform, I can't be any clearer. I think less of them for being there. They enable and justify the absolutely worst people on the planet... for outreach.