@GergelyOrosz: We’re in a world where copying is trivial: but no one really cares much about copycats of the same stuff (games, videos…
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Gergely Orosz reflects on the triviality of copying in the digital world, contrasting it with the challenge of creating original content, while highlighting an AI model's impressive game development capabilities.
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We’re in a world where copying is trivial: but no one really cares much about copycats of the same stuff (games, videos, even social media posts)
Creating new things that stick is what remains hard. A novel but fun game with a captivating story (eg recently: Twisted Tower for me); an interesting video, a good book…
Yes AI is getting more impressive, but yet I’m just not that impressed with a lower quality copy of the original
BridgeMind (@bridgemindai): Claude Fable 5.1 ONE SHOTTED this Mario Kart game.
This is one of the best results I’ve had so far and I am SUPER impressed with the game development capabilities.
Fable 5.1 is a huge step up from Fable 5.
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