Yarn Spinner's Ethical Stance Against AI Integration in Narrative Tools
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Summary
Yarn Spinner, a narrative tool for game developers, explains their principled stance against using AI technology in their product and development process. The company outlines ethical concerns about AI companies creating tools that harm people, discusses the environmental impact of AI training, and expresses skepticism about AI's ability to create meaningful narrative content. They emphasize their commitment to human creativity and ethical technology development.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledTL;DR: AI companies make tools for hurting people and we don't want to support that.
We don't have generative AI features in the product, and we don't use code generation tools to build it, and we don't accept contributions we know contain generated material.
We come from a background that did a decent amount of work on the ethics of technology, and we've seen how these things play out.
The environmental cost of training these models is enormous, and we don't want to be part of that either.
We believe that the best stories come from people, not machines.
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