Future Publishing - best known for closing outlets/magazines, and owners of PC Gamer, TechRadar, etc - has partnered with OpenAI to feed all its content into its learning machine, with no say from writers. Short-sighted, moronic, self-sabotaging move. openai.com/index/openai... - ThreadSky

toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk • 84 days ago

Future Publishing - best known for closing outlets/magazines, and owners of PC Gamer, TechRadar, etc - has partnered with OpenAI to feed all its content into its learning machine, with no say from writers.

Short-sighted, moronic, self-sabotaging move.

https://openai.com/index/openai-and-future-partner-on-specialist-content/

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michaelm238.bsky.social•84 days ago

Well this is horrible.

tlatshaw.bsky.social•84 days ago

Publishing is just becoming another private equity quick-buck

aegis-runestone.bsky.social•77 days ago

Why oh why do people keep embracing Gen AI like this?? I really wish OpenAI was shut down.

toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk•84 days ago

I'm made out to sound like a boomer, an extreme, or being melodramatic when I keep telling anyone around me that AI is a grave existential threat to humanity, and we need to do something about it fucking yesterday.

hyperdeath.bsky.social•84 days ago

It's not just AI the whole economy is in a death spiral as it searches for infinite growth while destroying the environment.

rockleesmiletv.bsky.social•84 days ago

All we can do is watch while they strip our future for parts.

stephielynn204.bsky.social•84 days ago

You're absolutely correct!

maxjk0.bsky.social•84 days ago

After the fallout of cr*pto, I think it's become so clear what's going on here, someone else had a post about it regarding n f ts in games:

The only people that believe in this crap aren't gamers, nor are they games companies. They are investors. They are getting themselves scammed

maxjk0.bsky.social•84 days ago

I don't believe a majority people in charge of these companies signing these deals for AI or Cr*pto shit genuinely believe the audience wants it. They just want investor money fast, they aren't looking to run a company, they are looking for a really good short term deal

maxjk0.bsky.social•84 days ago

Idk how many of these people are even able to escape their companies fast enough to cash out before it crashes down on them, but they're so blatantly just scamming investors to gamble with employee salaries

meganbidmead.bsky.social•84 days ago

fuming. Absolutely fuming. This is awful

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segadude.bsky.social•84 days ago

So many good ways to use AI and they always choose the quick n dirty one.

somanygames.co.uk•84 days ago

Do they not realise that if companies keep embracing AI, no one will have jobs, so no one will be able to afford their products?

bobbyjack.me•84 days ago

What the FUCK does this mean?! 😡

meganbidmead.bsky.social•84 days ago

It means nothing. It’s empty nonsense

ahmadamir19.bsky.social•84 days ago

Let me guess all the writers are going to get a huge bonus right.... Right?

toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk•84 days ago

That's the really fun part! They'll actually get the joy of being laid off

controlesvoadores.com.br•84 days ago

PC Gamer like

tmitmitmi.com•84 days ago

Just another way that a company that acts like a vulture feeding on the unfortunate dying members of the publishing industry can extract profit from what they pounce upon.

alexanderhay.bsky.social•84 days ago

As a keen reader of Retro Gamer, this really pisses me off no end.

benstylus.bsky.social•84 days ago

I thought Retro Gamer was imagine?

*checks wikipedia, finds out future bought imagine in 2016*

Well fudge

alexanderhay.bsky.social•84 days ago

Also published (and was founded on the success of) my beloved Amstrad Action. Not to forget the fabulous RPG mag, Arcane, and the legendary gateway to anime, and JPRPGs, Super Play.

downieseb.bsky.social•84 days ago

Oh nooooo

thedaddyotaku.bsky.social•84 days ago

Sad.
Just checked... No sites I'll miss.

toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk•84 days ago

Edge magazine? Regardless, whether you like the specific sites or not is irrelevant, the principle is rancid.

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