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A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics (www.pcgamer.com)
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/28095114

Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.

But what should have been a triumphant early access launch went pear shaped very quickly. At launch, few talked about the quite distinctive worldbuilding or the parry-heavy combat. Instead, all focus was trained entirely on something absent from the popular demo: very obvious AI use.

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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It sucks as a search engine. When I'm searching for something, I want factual, correct results, not a hallucinated answer which is backed up by none of its sources.

When I click through search results, I'm reading, evaluating the sources, and synthesizing the information into something which I am reasonably satisfied is true enough. I don't feel comfortable handing that cognitive task off to a machine. The machine's job is to help me find the sources, not tell me what the truth is.

Having a machine that tells you what is true is the most dystopian shit ever, and it would've sounded completely insane only 5 years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You seem to be describing an answer engine, which isn't what I said. It's really no worse than the last five or so years of Google if you just want links to a topic that you can go and read yourself. It's fine at that, it's not good.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I was talking about the Gemini blurb at the top of Google search results.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    To be fair, Gemini is one of the lowest quality pieces of s*** we have. Google also basically gives it no time to do the job.

    They're not magic machines. They take actual f****** time to do something. So of course it's going to s*** out worthless garbage if you don't give it enough information to make something good and no time to do anything.

    Trying to say that AI is a bad search engine based off Gemini. Is like saying that an artist who is never picked up a pen and paper is worse than someone who's been doing it for 40 years. Therefore all artists are bad.

    It's f****** nonsensical and ignores the entire actual context of what's happening.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    It takes work to turn them into useful search engines. Set up librewolf. Drop in at least a search and a fetch agent. Wrap it in a some prompts to make sure you get actual links.

    On my extremely non-scientific scale I'd rate that setup somewhere between barebones Kagi and pre-enshitified Google in terms of results.

    I'm hopeful that an actual agent framework will do a better job that's significantly more work. If you just log onto a SaaS LLM you'll get very unpredictable search results.

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