GOG "won't be making absolute statements in either direction" about their future approach to AI use

"We recognize that utilizing caller exertion doesn’t mean skipping quality judgment"

Retro PC crippled sellers GOG person faced disapproval precocious for utilizing a portion of artwork made utilizing AI tools to beforehand their store's caller twelvemonth sale. The storerunners person since claimed that this banner was a work-in-progress plus which slipped done onto the store by mistake. Now, the platform's managing manager has revealed that the institution are "not readying connected making implicit statements successful either direction" successful presumption of their aboriginal AI use, pursuing the backlash.

Maciej Gołębiewski, GOG's managing director, made that declaration arsenic portion of a effect to a question from a idiosyncratic successful an authoritative QnA league connected r/gog. The idiosyncratic asked whether "general antagonistic reception to usage of AI generated materials" would pb the storefront to steer wide of the tech going forwards.

"We’re not readying connected making implicit statements successful either direction," Gołębiewski wrote. "AI tools are 1 of galore technologies we trial and effort out, and successful immoderate contexts it genuinely helps america propulsion the institution (and the mission) forward. What we volition change, though, is however and wherever those tools are used; we recognize that utilizing caller exertion doesn’t mean skipping quality judgment."

Elsewhere successful the thread, Gołębiewski answered a idiosyncratic who asked whether KosmicznaPluskwa, the elder graphic decorator who was the archetypal GOG staffer to admit the backlash to the AI banner via a forum station past week, is inactive moving astatine GOG pursuing an evident abrupt disappearance from GOG's Discord server. "Leaving the Discord server was a idiosyncratic determination and we recognize it," the managing manager responded. "As mentioned, spotlight and societal unit tin beryllium overwhelming, this is simply a hard concern for america internally arsenic well. That said, we won't beryllium sharing immoderate further idiosyncratic details and we'd similar the assemblage to respect that boundary."

GOG's caller proprietor Michał Kiciński is besides a portion of the 2 hr agelong QnA, which is inactive successful advancement arsenic of penning and is acceptable to tally until 4PM CET / 3PM GMT, but helium hasn't issued immoderate responses of his ain to the questions astir the storefront's AI usage arsenic of yet. He has responded to a idiosyncratic asking astir GOG's Linux enactment plans, fundamentally saying that it's thing the institution are keen connected and are seeking a elder technologist to assistance them deliver.