WorseDoughnut

Obligatory “PIA is owned by adware distributors” warning.

Mine has become my couch gaming set up for my TV, so pretty much anything compatible with controller support gets played on the couch instead of on my PC. Also use it for playing torrented TV shows & movies on my TV by remote mounting my media drives on my PC.

I’ve also brought it around for travel a few times now, but I also don’t travel all that much either.

Overall I really only would 100% recommend it if you’re willing to tinker with the Linux half to really unlock the full potential of having basically a really decent Linux HTPC at your disposal. That said, it’s not a requirement and I think it functions super well in the Steam gaming mode on its own.

A human can “learn” to play an instrument in a vacuum with no access to anything other than the tool itself.
An AI is literally only able to “learn” when fed pre-made works by someone else.

Acting like there anything close to the same process is absurd.

If you can’t tell the difference between learning as a human being, and selling content that you don’t own the rights to, then I don’t know what to tell you.

But you do know, and you’re just being disingenuous intentionally.

Good. Until a studio can point to a known-dataset that isn’t just ripping art illegally from sources they don’t have the rights to use then it’s just not worth the risk.

It’s not 100% unrealistic that large studios like Blizzard and Riot (who have very clear styles that “work well” with AI generation weirdness) will eventually have huge in-house datasets that they own since it’s all created under the umbrella of their employees and contractors who already sign away all the rights when they make content for the games they’re working on. But until that happens, it’s so obviously a red flag / great area that Valve’s move is just a no-brainer.