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True ruler of Aeria. Lover of oldschool strategy games, RPGs, and stories of great political intrigue. Also writes musings sometimes. Check them out here: https://revierofriver.blogspot.com/
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trained off the internet that was shaped mostly by ad revenue: an algorithm starting from pushing sensationalism which could only increase revenue by going to more and more extremist and addicting content
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What I'm hearing for example is that the volume of slop on Steam Next Fest didn't just compete for attention with legitimate games, it depressed user engagement to the point that nobody was getting attention.
Show PostAnd I don't mean this in terms of some kind of AI ban, literally just as a way of trying to keep shovelware out of discoverability channels.
Show PostThe $100 Steam fee does nothing here because the spammers are often idiot dilettantes or dedicated shovelware operations and both are burning way more than that on tokens. So eventually you land on "you need to know somebody to get a game on Steam" to re-create some kind of honest signal.
Show PostPeople may joke but this might be where this all ends up: on the industry recreating old forms of gatekeeping so that social proof and webs of trust can be used to stem the tide of low-effort slop, effectively undoing what digital distribution did in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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