There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
  • luciole (they/them)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn’t have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn’t AI that laid off thousands of employees, it’s deluded executives who don’t understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

    Generative LLM needs to steal a gargantuan amount of work to produce unreliable yet convincing output. This is the nature of the beast. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” vibes.

    Anyway, I was suspecting that this “issue” might come up so I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what’s generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

    So it’s fine because Trump sucks? Holy deflection, Batman!

    • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Lutris would take much, much more than a simple fork to solve its problems. It was terrible even before GenAI got popular.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23·
    7 hours ago

    Update - 13/03/2026 11:10 UTC - The Lutris creator has restored the Claude attribution, with a comment noting “Since it’s such a big fuss, I’m putting the Claude attribution back”.

    From that article. Also, fuck websites that block screenshots.

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
    24·
    2 hours ago

    So, it’s no longer being hidden, what’s the problem now? I just opened lutris, I don’t notice any crazy change. And the developer said this, “It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn’t able to do last year because of health issues / depression.”, so I don’t see some huge issue here.

    AI is going to be everywhere, whether we like it or not. There are millions of active daily users on all various LLM platforms, are open source projects supposed to be immune from this? Of course not!

    AI is already very limited to it’s context window, and tokens, so it’s not some magic pill that will make all your code perfect. I understand the AI backlash but people need to chill, it’s not some magic genie that will transform anything you throw at it, it’s still pretty limited.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Oh I think the backlash is warranted. This whole thing is just running on a doom spiral of debt. That never ends well. Wait until the rug pull, where those token costs go from a few thousand a month, to suddenly putting companies in jeopardy because they had to charge what they actually should be to generate revenue, and someone ends up with a million dollar bill at the end of the month. Can’t wait for that part. Also can’t wait for the brainless execs to quit sounding like robots, and foaming at the mouth as they are doing just about the next thing to jacking off while thinking of firing us all. No, the rage is definitely warranted.

      • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        54 minutes ago

        Right but this is about 1 dev using claude for lutris because he’s apparently going through a rough time in his life right now.

        This one guy isnt to blame for the problems with the AI industry

        • GrindingGears@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          39 minutes ago

          No this one guy certainly isn’t. But it’s shit like this that’s feeding the beast. In a way it’s almost like the AI version of greenwashing.

          Also I wouldn’t trust AI with tough time stuff. There’s already several documented cases where it’s led to people committing suicide and whatever else.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      3 hours ago

      The good and unique thing about Lutris is that it has a bunch of user-made install scripts that make Wine/Proton installation much easier, often with only a few clicks.

      Heroic on the other hand is almost exclusively for the Epic/GOG/Amazon Luna stores. It does however have a way of installing a non library game in its own Wine/Proton prefix, but it doesn’t have the install scripts that are often required for extra tweaks and changes that are needed to make some titles playable.

      The only added functionality, the easy creation of Wine/Proton prefixes and the Wine runner manager, can also be found in Bottles. So I wouldn’t call Heroic an alternative, as both Bottles and Heroic only offer half of what Lutris offers.

      • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zipEnglish
        4·
        3 hours ago

        Two weeks old, so not super old. Was a little surprised to see it pop up again, but I’m not mad that people are talking about it.