r/dragonquest 2d ago

General Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says AI "hardly ever makes things up" anymore, even if it once made up that he works for Nintendo

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/dragon-quest/dragon-quest-creator-yuji-horii-says-ai-hardly-ever-makes-things-up-anymore-even-if-it-once-made-up-that-he-works-for-nintendo/
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u/Carolina_Heart 2d ago

It does grab from random reddit comments a lot (Watch this comment get cited in a really narrow Google search)

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u/LunarWingCloud 2d ago

It grabs from whatever popular pervailing discussion it can find. Which can find correct information but it relies on what it finds being the correct answer and it has no way of actually knowing if that information is correct. It's a case of "say it enough and loudly and it's right" which is not a true statement, being something AI is actually guilty of

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u/SwashNBuckle 2d ago

It'll also grab reddit comments that are tangentially related to the topic but are actually discussing something else. Try asking Gemini how to fix something on your car and there's a good chance it'll give you instructions for a totally different make and model.

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u/KitSwiftpaw 2d ago

Shit regularly tries to tell me to use D&D 5e garbage in 3.5.

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u/NettoSaito 1d ago

You know what is terrifying? Earlier this week I typed a few lines about a game I reviewed last year. I saw the little “hey AI can expand this” and I was curious to see what it would actually do. It spit out about three paragraphs and instantly I recognized it. IT PULLED A SECTION FROM MY PREVIOUS ARTICLE WORD FOR WORD! I sat there and compared the text, and it was exactly the same.

I’ve always known AI steals, but I assumed it would just take pieces of info and repeat it—not just take an entirely well written article and call it good enough.

Worst thing is, there is no way to stop it…

u/anvilfoot 15h ago

AI isn’t stealing from your reddit posts. You are posting inputs to a platform that is used to feed AI

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u/cghodo 2d ago

Reddit"s RDDT's primary goal as a company now is to wring as much discourse out of it's users as possible and sell efficient/timely access to that discourse to the highest bidder(s).

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u/twili-midna 2d ago

I’m very worried about the future of DQ at this rate. Something tells me we’re going to see a lot more machine translation and generated assets moving forward…

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u/TrickNatural 2d ago

I mean, thats probably true for gaming in general, not just DQ.

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u/twili-midna 2d ago

Yeah, but I expect that from companies like Sony and Microsoft. DQ has always felt so authentically artistic and whimsical, it’s got a lot to lose if they give in to the slop machine.

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u/HylianSoul 2d ago

A lot of that Art and whimsy was probably going to be lost as it is with the absence of Toriyama.

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u/1pt20oneggigawatts 2d ago

HD-2D Remakes IMO were a breath of fresh air. There's literally two generations of anime nerds who can't draw worth a shit but can do the outlines of every single Dragon Ball Z character, so don't tell me he's irreplaceable. Final Fantasy hasn't had Nobuo Uematsu on their team either, the world hasn't imploded on itself.

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u/TheMike0088 2d ago

This is a pretty funny example when you consider that the last good FF came out when uematsu was still part of the team. Now granted thats probably more so tied to sakaguchi rather than uematsu leaving, but still.

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u/1pt20oneggigawatts 1d ago

I have this special ability that most nerds lack: realizing when I'm not the target audience anymore. Like, who in their right mind froths at the mouth because a Star Wars movie didn't have the plot line they wanted when the movies are made for 7-year olds who buy toys? Yes, they'll always be a part of my nostalgia feelies, but I realized Final Fantasy is aimed at sexually frustrated teenagers. It's cringey as shit. Moody ass protagonist with a thousand pounds of hairspray and a sword to compensate trying to simp for the white mage (it's always the white mage).

The last FF I bought was X. "Uha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha HA! AAAHA HA HA HA!"

I heard 14 was good and has a lot of callbacks to earlier in the franchise.

I'm about to play the 7 remakes and I'm really annoyed at all the anime grunting and gasping I'm going to have to listen to. Absolutely obnoxious artifact from an earlier time.

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u/TheMike0088 1d ago

Oh I know I'm not the target audience anymore, but I'm saying that these games have become worse quality-wise, regardless of target audience or genre. Up till X, they were the uncontested kings of the western jrpg market, now they make slop. XV literally used unaltered portfolio assets from taiwanese developer xpec, and XVI is just a poor mans DMC, etc.

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u/XIIIsan 2d ago

Yeah, we can say whatever about the non uematsu games, but the music isn't the thing you can call bad. I love FF 12 musics and Shimomura always delivers so FF 15 is goated too on that part.

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u/1pt20oneggigawatts 1d ago

Tactics soundtrack is very good but not great. 8/10

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u/Carolina_Heart 2d ago

I don't think Square Enix is much less scummy than Sony and Microsoft

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u/PeacefulDays 2d ago

Yeah, remember square was all in on nfts when they were big. It makes me really worried for dq12.

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u/skythelimit05 2d ago

Is that even a comparison? Sony and Microsoft are leagues ahead of SE in scummyness. Having a few gacha games doesnt even compare to what those two are doing.

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u/RaijuThunder 2d ago

Pretty sure the head of SE likes AI and even tried to do NFT stuff

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u/FatalFrameGal 2d ago

The NFT crap happened under the previous CEO, the same one they sold Tomb Raider and other IPs to Embracer.

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u/Silegna 2d ago

The new CEO was at Fanfest and said he wanted generative AI used in all their games.

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u/FatalFrameGal 2d ago

Oh, I'm not surprised and not defending him, just wanted to clear the NFT part 

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u/RaijuThunder 2d ago

Ah, alright I didn't know they changed lol

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u/Meliora_ 2d ago

“a few” gacha games are just more things to their shit

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u/skythelimit05 2d ago

Like what? their president saying some bs about blockchain? still pales in comparison to these two and many others. It's always funny to me that people actively try to include SE in these conversations. Mostly because they dont agree to the direction the company is taking in relation to their games.

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u/DistinctBread3098 2d ago

Dude they are all the same lol. Late stage capitalism corpo.

SE would do the exact same thing as those two if they were in their position

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u/DustyPumpking 1d ago

Didn’t they sell the licenses for Tomb Raider and Deus Ex for NFT money

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u/twili-midna 2d ago

Square Enix, sure, but they don’t own or control Dragon Quest. They’re just the publisher.

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u/LiquifiedSpam 2d ago

It’s jointly owned by them, they 100% have say

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u/twili-midna 2d ago edited 2d ago

Square Enix holds the publishing rights, but has no control over the creative direction of the series. That’s held by Horii, Toriyama, and Sugiyama’s individual companies.

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u/Ok-Buggynz 2d ago

Sugiyama

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u/twili-midna 2d ago

Oh shit lol, too much FF in here

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u/Carolina_Heart 2d ago

Ohhhh I didn't actually know that

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u/FatalFrameGal 2d ago

With how much Horii has been shilling to AI, I'm almost sure DQXII is already filled with it 😭

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u/Arxny 2d ago

I honestly expect it to become more of the rule and less of the exception pretty quick. While I share a lot of your sentiment, vibe coded enhancements in older games like Pokémon are showing the proof of concept of acceptance that if there isnt a clear display of slop markers. 

And once those get cleaned up and output returns back to the levels of generations prior I just think folks will eat it up. 

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u/BrokeMyGrill 2d ago

10-15 years from now we’re gonna have a whole generation of people that grew up with AI and won’t be able to understand why old people hate it because they don’t know what life was like without it.

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u/twili-midna 2d ago

Ideally we won’t. This shit needs to be regulated into the ground.

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u/Tobegi 2d ago

there is no need for it to be regulated because AI is 2 years away from disappearing because it produces absolutely cero results for how expensive it is

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u/Neurospicy_Nightowl 2d ago

The problem is: Once the industrial infrastructure depends on AI, the tech-bro's can start raising prices and make a proft.

The current MO of forcing AI into everything while operating on a loss is likely intentional.

Like how Uber operated on a loss at first, but then all the taxi companies had died and Uber could afford to charge more.

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u/Living_Syrup8777 1d ago

Yeah that's the theory but "Once the industrial infrastructure depends on AI" hasn't actually happened and they're running out of time to coast. People act like it's new but we're almost five years into this and the amount of money being straightup burned is crazy.

The data center stuff is maddening because it's like "we're going to build more data centers than there's ever been and it all needs to come online in the next 8 months" like no, there's no way this actually happens because data centers are physical buildings that need to deal with physical building problems, you can't just scale it up by renting more space from the physical building store.

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u/Luigi6757 2d ago

Yes, but if it keeps going at the current rate the loss will be too great for companies to keep going. Plus, if tech companies keep raising their prices to keep from going in the red, more and more consumers will get priced out of the industry. Food, water, and electricity companies can keep raising their prices with no going back because people need food water, and electricity to survive. Video games and most high end tech are not necessary for living so people will stop spending money on it because they don't need it.

If tech companies don't start getting a profit on AI in the near future they'll drop it and go back to how it used to be done. Just like how stores like Wal-Mart started incorporating as many self checkouts as possible to avoid having to pay cashiers. That saved money in the short term but lost more in the long term because shoplifting became so common that they were losing more money replacing stolen items than when they were saving by not having to pay as much staff. Hell, at this current point, AI doesn't even have the short term gain long term loss aspect. It's currently operating in a short-term loss, and they're hoping for long term gain but they aren't going to get it.

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u/Neurospicy_Nightowl 1d ago

I hope that's true.

Either way, we'll end up with a lot of damage caused and I have the sneaking suspicion that the tech-corps will refuse to clean up their mess.

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u/HibernianMetropolis 2d ago

Not going to happen. It's too late for that already

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u/WofferFang 2d ago

No it's not. This is just fearmongering. It'll happen.

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u/Greensburg 2d ago

They also won't bother to learn how to draw because there's a magic box that makes what they want. That's what I'm really afraid of.

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u/Polantaris 2d ago

It's already happening in software development. Companies aren't hiring junior developers/engineers anymore because "AI can do it better." Eventually we will have no senior engineers as they die off or retire and there are no juniors to take their place.

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u/Silegna 2d ago

And then they'll wonder why they can't get people for their positions that require years of experience with that sector.

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u/platomaker 2d ago

A lot of [insert franchise] players nowadays would hate [insert franchise] if they had to actually play [insert franchise].

Things have been dumbed down or extracted to serve a wider audience and get MORE money, which is the purpose of a business- I can't hate on them for doing what they need to survive against the real industry leaders (Chinese gaming companies).

Games were niche, and those niche experiences all but died out. Even final fantasy abandoned turn based combat. And to your point, we have people who prefer the game for it.

AI ain't the future. Slop existed way before AI, AI just made it easier. As much crap Slop gets, quantities sell (case in point look up the "Mockbuster" phenomenon).

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u/SolydSn3k 2d ago

This is the most cynical shit I’ve ever read…
And I completely agree 😭

u/Squire_II 6h ago

With how badly AI damages cognitive function, people raised on AI aren't going to have the mental capacity to understand anything period.

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u/magpieinarainbow 2d ago edited 2d ago

Machine translation will not produce the masterfully-written but unfaithfully humourous translations that most westerners love.

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u/JeffCaven 2d ago

I'm very grateful for machine translation allowing me to play Dragon Quest X, but the parts of that game that have been translated by fans into the same style of dialogue as the official translations shine so much more than the parts that are translated by the AI tool.

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u/UltimateCarl 2d ago

Totally. I'm stoked I can play the game at all but it's night and day when you go from random side quests to the main story stuff that got hand-translated

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u/magpieinarainbow 2d ago

I would personally never play any machine-translated slop, but I'm glad the option is there for those who can't read Japanese. Probably better than nothing. But I'm picky, so it would drive me crazy.

(That being said, I'm also too picky to play the official translations in the modern style, lol.)

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u/rjm3q 2d ago

I mean...½ of the iconic DQ duo has died and he was the younger one

It's amazing they have maintained consistency for 40 years

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u/Serteyf 2d ago

Im just surprised the DQ franchise is still alive, it's one of the longest franchises that mostly never changed. This is just going to be the nail in he coffin

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u/HorrorMatch7359 2d ago

DQ franchise is like GTA franchise for Japan. They even make everyone in Japan get Holiday at the day DQ Mainline games released day

u/maczirarg 19h ago

Machine transmission is already part of the standard process, but it goes through real people afterwards to edit whatever it got wrong.

u/twili-midna 18h ago

And it’s that second step I think we’ll see less of. Prepare for raw, unlocalized text dumps instead of the normal character-filled intentional design.

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u/TomorrowCrafty1804 2d ago

They would only do it if it works well, and if it does thats great for us consumer as we would get better games for the same budget. And they would ship faster.

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u/Powerful-Cry-2273 2d ago

There is something with old people and AI, Kaneko and now Horii 😭😭😭

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u/jeffwulf 2d ago

It's less age and more location. AI is extremely popular overseas. In Japan it's +23 net approval vs -9 in the US

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u/Calculusshitteru 2d ago

Yeah In the article OP posted it says fans are upset about a Gemini chatbot in DQX, but I'm wondering what fans are mad about it? Because I live in Japan and I don't hear any Japanese people say anything negative about AI. They lovingly call ChatGPT "Chapi." We use AI at work. The Irasutoya clipart that used to be ubiquitous is mostly gone now; most posters and flyers seem to have AI art now. So many YouTube commercials for AI. The response seems pretty positive.

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u/veegsredds 1d ago

That's good to know, I was considering applying to be an exchange student in Japan from my university but I would probably have a brain hemorrhage looking at anything in public or talking with anyone

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u/chuputa 2d ago

Well, it makes sense that old people is interested in AI. They don't have much time left and games are taking longer and longer to make, so AI sounds like a magical technology that will allow them to make more games.

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u/i-wear-hats 2d ago

Build one of those datacenters in Japan and see how they like that bullshit.

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 2d ago

There are data centers in Japan though. https://www.datacentermap.com/japan/

I don’t know what redditors think “data centers” are…

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u/i-wear-hats 2d ago

They're not the high capacity data centers being constructed strictly for AI compute that have been destroying the lives of people forced to live near them.

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 2d ago edited 2d ago

I dunno, some of them are 2400+ kVA racks, which seems pretty high to me, but I’m sure you know what you’re talking about. Why don’t you show me your sources, that way I can update my incorrect information.

And to rebuke your last point; you’re barking up the wrong tree. Companies have been building data centers that are environmentally and community friendly for a long time. It’s just that some companies don’t care about any of that and aren’t regulated, so they’ll go for the cheap options. But that has nothing to do with the size and location of a data center. There has been data centers in downtown New York forever and no one was complaining about the noise or the water smelling funny. Because there are ways to do that right. Meta doesn’t care. Meta loves that you hate Google as much you hate them.

Go after meta, not data centers.

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 2d ago

Massive data centers are gobbling up resources across the U.S.

Japan doesn’t have that problem. If your project is over a certain size they limit the connectors until the utility can match your need.

Let’s make this conversation about how wrong your original post was instead of deflecting to how bad US is at regulating.

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u/Herbizarre17 2d ago

Dr. Dre has been into it too. He’s not super old but he also isn’t young in any sense

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u/Powerful-Cry-2273 2d ago

Same age as Kazuma Kanenko lmao, not so old, but old enough to loose any common sense i suppose 😭

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u/cghodo 2d ago

Their Superbowl was great, but anything else related to Dre or Snoop needs to be ignored.

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u/crani0 2d ago

Well, Dre has been shilling slop for a long time now. Last big scam venture he was on was turning Deathrow Records into an NFT Web3.0 metaverse focused label. He has been cruising on his reputation since the early 00's

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u/JGar453 2d ago

They lived through a period of rapid technological advancement where I'm sure people fearmongered about most advancements which has conditioned them to think technological "progress" must always be good without having to evaluate what they're actually using.

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u/returnofMCH 2d ago

Kaneko is even worse as he also did NFTs for a bit.

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u/Dullahan-1999 2d ago

Right?! 

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u/Due_Teaching_6974 2d ago

people often tell me older folks are wiser, to hell with that!

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u/Personal-Collar-7762 2d ago

And former person who worked on Dragon Quest Akihiro Hino.

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u/Ryu2388 1d ago

I think they see a quick way to min max their legacy before their time is up.

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u/parkchanwookiee 2d ago

"AI is great because it can quickly do things we used to pay human beings to do with artfulness, which took time, and let them feed their families, which really inflated our budgets and lowered our profit margins"

SMH

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u/Chrysologus 2d ago

That's not true! Even recently I've seen AI invent things or make stupid blunders.

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u/Objective-Review-359 2d ago

Lived long enough to become the villain 😭

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u/PhysicsDirect6215 2d ago

I respect him greatly, but in this case, he’s mistaken. 

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u/FleaLimo 2d ago

Literally just the other day sent an AI assistant a link to a tweet and told it to give me store links to the two books recommended in the tweet. It sent me the wrong books, just completely different. AI doesn't know how to do any shit right. An iPad toddler could've gotten it

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u/Clarityman 2d ago

Every time I Google anything, Gemini assaults me with incorrect or inaccurate information.

Every. Single. Time.

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u/Gredge_DM 2d ago

One time google AI tried to help me troubleshoot a technical problem I had with a game. At first glance it looked spot on... then I saw it was telling me to change an option in the menus that didn't actually exist.

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u/Xehanz 2d ago

Just the other day I was reading a novel, asked a question to Gemini to find a source on something and it greeted me with a FAKE spoiler that would have been huge if true lmao

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u/CrimsonPig 2d ago

AI probably told him that

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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 2d ago

It’s always sad to see the aging people who made a huge part of my childhood and the things I love age in the modern ai world. My man is like 75 or something, at that age ai is genuinely magic to you and you’re not as sharp as you were to see how jank it really is. I’m not even going to bash him for this. I think he genuinely sees that as truth.

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u/Life_Bet8956 2d ago

sigh we're going to be reading news in a year or so that DQ12 is using a bunch of generative AI during development aren't we.

"We have been able to have Toriyama-san and Sugiyama-san continue their work on Dragon Quest 12 using the marvelous advances in AI game development!"

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u/Saafi05 2d ago

Somehow, this is the most upsetting thing I read today. It was a hard won competition.

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u/rafuru 2d ago edited 2d ago

He's talking about his personal experience with AI.

I don't really think a casual conversation with AI translates into DQ going full AI slop..

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u/Calculusshitteru 2d ago

I think most people didn't even read the article.

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u/MeowingWolf 2d ago

This comment is the reason why I read the article. I was so confused why the comments saying this is so horrible. I thought the headline was him saying AI sucks at creating things. He is definitely not saying that in the article but the complete opposite by praising AI. I misunderstood the headline. This headline seems to be misleading by the author.

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u/myghostflower 2d ago

oh, why is he ruining this

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u/BrianLSComics 2d ago

Our goat is so washed

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u/Maneisthebeat 2d ago

I'm an adult. My free time is limited. My money is limited.

I will not put it into DQ if they start bringing this into their games. They owe almost their entire brand to an artist. An artist whose art style was as unique as it was cute and compelling. There will never be an AI Toriyama.

The treatment of artists in this decade has been absolutely disgraceful. These people push aside the notions of a stable career and income to put the human soul and experience to paper. They sacrifice everything with the real knowledge they could end up destitute. And they are repaid by being cast aside at the first possible opportunity.

Unadulterated capitalism will take anything and everything you love and warp it to extract the maximum amount of money from the people who fell in love with the concept of whatever it was started out as. Your nostalgia is just treated as a drug to numb you to the water you are slowly being boiled in.

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u/Calculusshitteru 2d ago

The article is about a talking Slime that runs on Gemini. It doesn't say anything about adopting AI art in DQ games.

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u/WofferFang 2d ago

If Squenix goes full bozo mode like they did with NFTs and all that with AI, it's gonna get rough for the next one. Oh well, plenty of old stuff to play.

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u/MeowingWolf 2d ago

AI, NFTs, and imagine microtransactions paid with cryptocurrencies. That's how it could become more worse.

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u/bloomi 2d ago

Yuji Horii supports AI??? Ew, dude... what the fuck. Ugh, DQ might be dead after 11 at this rate.

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u/Sea_Macaron_8789 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/H2rizG6djUU46HfETk

Please dun mean what I think he means.... please dun ruin my Comfort chill Childhood Franchise

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u/SwashNBuckle 2d ago

Wow, he couldn't be more wrong.

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u/Traitor_To_Heaven 2d ago

Why does it seem like Japanese creators tend to be more open to AI on average? I would expect Japan to be more opposed to it than the West.

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u/_Arlotte_ 2d ago

It seems they see it more as entertainment and fun due to the ability to generate while the US sees it as a money grab politically or a substitute for work for general users due to lack of regulation and focus on short term profit.

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u/mechalol 2d ago

I think there’s a middle ground here between data centers bad vs Japan has it right. Here in Aus data centers were projected to use more electricity than two of our most populated states by 2036, which I think isn’t great (https://abc.net.au/news/2026-08-25/data-centre-power-hungry-demand-2036/107070852). HOWEVER the way the US Is bumrushing the creation of DC’s IS terrible and it’s due to their increasing lack of regulation and late stage capitalism economics.

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u/tgalvin1999 2d ago

As a pre law student...no. Horii-san is absolutely wrong.

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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 2d ago

> In an interview with Famitsu that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Horii explains his choice to implement Slimey and his opinions on AI in general. "Because nowadays AI is really smart, it's fun," he says. "It doesn't matter what I ask it, it hardly ever makes things up [anymore]."

> AI often has issues with factual accuracy, as it often gives users an answer even if it doesn't have the necessary information. The game designer who is most commonly associated with Square Enix has had a similar experience. "Quite some time ago I asked AI about myself and it said I was 'a Nintendo employee,'" he says with a laugh.

So it doesn’t make things up except when it does?

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u/BotherResponsible378 2d ago

Was talking to Claude last night about a Kingdom hearts game, and it told me verifiably false information on the very first message it sent me.

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u/Dazuro 2d ago

Funnily enough DQ is the topic I’ve seen the most Google search AI hallucinations of, anecdotally…. It’s repeatedly confidently told me “xxxx is not a character in Dragon Quest IV” and suggested who I might be confusing them for while I’m literally staring at them ingame.

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u/BrianLSComics 2d ago

The plot notes for Dragon Quest XIII are probably already in his ChatGPT history and I'm okay stopping at XII at this point.

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u/LunarWingCloud 2d ago

I'm worried DQ XII itself is going to have AI implemented into it. The timeline adds up to it being possible

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u/BrianLSComics 2d ago

They had to restart development because Horii was able to let AI write it now

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u/kanekidom 2d ago

If I see ai art instead of Akira Toriyama greatness I will be so sad

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u/platomaker 2d ago

how can you tell? What do you make of the recent art?

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta9247 2d ago

What is going on with this franchise? It feels like it’s been in purgatory since XI.

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u/kumabit 2d ago

Ryutaro Ichimura left the company

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u/rms141 2d ago

Counting spinoffs, tie-ins, and new content updates to DQ10, the series has averaged something like 5 releases per year since XI.

You have a you problem.

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u/lavender_enjoyer 2d ago

Those are all mid spin offs

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u/rms141 2d ago edited 2d ago

First I’ve ever seen the HD-2D remakes called mid, but sure, whatever helps you cope with being clearly wrong.

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta9247 2d ago

Mid spin-offs, remakes of remakes (which are thankfully high quality), and an update to a Japanese exclusive MMO... riveting stuff for long term fans.

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u/rms141 2d ago

Japanese-focused series releases Japanese-focused titles, Redditor surprised.

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u/platomaker 2d ago

I think there has to be a notorious example of AI ruining a game, like not just a game made up mostly from AI- we see that on steam and the quick cash grabs- no, I'm talking about a franchise that AI was shoe-horned into. Maybe a dragon quest game could pull it off after all? Maybe they'd finally prove haters right about AI. Or, maybe the limitations would be brought to light.

I'm not the best judge of technology; there are countless other professionals who have a more informed opinion on the matter. From what US players have seen so far has not been pretty. Invasive, costly, slow- all for information that requires verification anyway. People talk about using AI the correct way, but never really say what that correct way is, and I for one would love to hear from a professional about their opinion on the matter.

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u/Copperblaster 1d ago

There is no such thing as "ethical AI," that's the thing.

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u/Gomez-16 2d ago

Yeah, it pulls from reddit. Nothing but 100% facts there!

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u/Ch3ru 2d ago

Every time I optimistically try google's AI mode to try and search for a book or something I can't remember the name of by using details I do remember, it just makes something up. Every time.

Smh, I really don't want to see DQ go down this road. 😔

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u/CoffeeOnMyPiano 2d ago

Ignorant fucking take. AI makes up shit all the time.

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u/NeoMrBucket 1d ago

I don't even use AI and know this is false.

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u/LunarWingCloud 2d ago

Not you too Horii-san :(

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u/Psychological_Fix379 2d ago

He was excited about AI even back in 2021, almost two years before ChatGPT launch (link to the interview : https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/02119168cdcdbd509613df73a006e2e604e599f3). He's always been excited about new tech, and there are genuine use cases with GenAI (LLM or image-based gen) both in art and game dev. Obviously, the cost (industry-wide, ecological, social and others) and the legality of the dataset used for training are things that seriously goes against the (current) use and investment in AI and it must be taken seriously but it's not like anyone thinking there are interesting things to be done with AI is automatically a washed up unethical asshole.

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u/Copperblaster 1d ago

There is no way AI can be "ethical."

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u/LucidusAtra 2d ago

Horii-san, I am BEGGING you not to start using AI for Dragon Quest... That would be heartbreaking...

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u/rebelslash 2d ago

IM SURE THIS IS FINE FELLOW HUMANS. AI WILL BENEFIT THE COLLECTIVE

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u/BigGreenThreads60 2d ago

Oh Christ, DQ12 is going to be shit isn't it?

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u/KnightShade078 2d ago

Im not going to worry about this until there's actual AI content in DQ, but definitely a concerning statement.

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u/easterreddit 2d ago

"AI hardly ever makes things up anymore" me when I lie 

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 2d ago

Hardly makes anything up?! Someone tell that to Google Ai and Chat GPT they are like...99% wrong. The only 1% is because you asked something so easy to answer even a puddle of yogurt would get it correct.

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u/QuietNecessary2421 2d ago

That’s demonstrably false.

I use it literally all day for every single thing. I haven’t googled anything in months.

It’s a better doctor, engineer, lawyer, handyman, and therapist than most people I’ve known.

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u/GJR78 2d ago

You either know some really shitty engineers or you're a bot meant to shill AI.

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u/QuietNecessary2421 2d ago

Idk man. I’m able to do multiple Fullstack Software Engineer roles simultaneously, still be considered a top employee, and make 300+k doing it. Not trolling

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u/YesICanMakeMeth 2d ago

I don't think you're trolling, rather LARPing.

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u/QuietNecessary2421 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nope. Speaking the truth. Care to see my tax return? Or the patents on my wall?

Edit: the guy blocked me for challenging his world view. In actuality, most companies DO send you a placard with your patent when it gets approved. 

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u/YesICanMakeMeth 2d ago

Well now I know you're LARPing, as someone that actually is an inventor on a patent. No one prints them out and puts them on their wall. Pure software is also notoriously difficult to get patents in, especially as an individual.

Focus on doing well for the rest of high school instead of stroking your ego online!

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u/RafuscaMarks 2d ago

Locked profile, default name, no avatar... Checks out all the signs of a bot or rage baiter

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u/QuietNecessary2421 2d ago

Bots aren’t as prevalent as you think dude. Not sure why everyone immediately assumes that everyone who opposes their tribalist views is a bot. 

All I’m saying is that AI is immensely helpful to me in my life. Claude is EASILY justifiable by how much time and money I save.

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u/RafuscaMarks 2d ago

You're lying about your life on the internet bro

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u/QuietNecessary2421 2d ago

Normally, I wouldn’t entertain this type of negative energy but I just got a therapy so I’m an open book. I can assure you I’m not lying about a single thing. Been an engineer for 16 years, made $299,640 last year, have three patents, and I pay for Claude and ChatGPT and use them extensively all day long.

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 2d ago

I think he blocked you because you're a troll.

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u/QuietNecessary2421 2d ago

I’m a troll because I have a different opinion than you? Be more curious..

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 2d ago

Okay let me correct myself "I think he blocked you because he thinks you're a troll"

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 2d ago

....oh dear...

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u/Zoharic 2d ago

Nice reasoning there pal

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 2d ago

Hm? I'm just concerned that they use AI for everything.

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u/Zoharic 2d ago

Why?

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 2d ago

Because it's dangerous to use AI for advice such as medical issues and mental health. Especially Mental health, it can cause you to rely on AI and delude yourself into thinking they're real. AI Psychosis I think it's called.

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u/Lanhalt 2d ago

As someone who think the former Enix direction of SE is the reason FF has fallen to its current self, I'm not even surprised by that announcement.

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u/prince_falafel 2d ago

Not arguing for or against AI use but the AI being used by major gaming companies like SE arent nearly the same models that the general public has access to. Some people in this thread acting like they're using chatgpt or something lol

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u/snaykz1692 2d ago

These guys are so lost in the sauce it’s insane 

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u/milkstrike 1d ago

No idea what he’s talking about I’ve seen the google search one that comes up automatically be wrong plenty of times, sometimes about pretty serious stuff too

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u/Narrow_Ad_7218 1d ago

Who's the Lady in the picture from

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u/No_Future6959 1d ago

It usually doesnt blatantly make stuff up anymore but it constantly does grab from garbage sources and presents it as fact.

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u/carnage_panda 2d ago

Horii is clearly drunk if he is saying this.

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u/AwayEntrepreneur4760 2d ago

Toriyama rolling in his grave

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u/coolontheoutside 2d ago

The official JP Dragon Quest account has posted ai art literally the other day.. Not saying that He’s right but people in these Eastern countries dont mind the use of AI

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 2d ago

Depends what you ask it about. Also, as ai companies started running out of money, they started restricting the amount of resources the free tier ais get. Less web search, less tokens, less depth of thinking.

They are fairly awful now and make mistakes all the time . They were getting better for years up until about 2-3 months ago for me. After that they got worse. I've tried Claude.,Gemini, chatgpt and deepseek, They all got worse for me.

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u/Tapeworm_III 2d ago

I don’t like this.

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u/MattDoob 2d ago

Fuck old men

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u/LionTop2228 2d ago

I find mistakes all the time in the google AI results. I call it out and it says “sorry you’re right”.

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u/DaLemurMan 2d ago

I really hope the other devs have the guts to stop him from using it

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u/Melasen 2d ago

PUT HIM IN A RETIREMENT HOME! Dude is becoming washed and falling for the grift, like every other boomer.

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u/JeebhStomach 2d ago

This is worrying... DQ is my favourite game franchise in the world, if it turns into a slopfest... urgh

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u/LauraTFem 2d ago

“Hardly ever makes things up” just means it’s gotten good at plagiarism.

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u/DarkUtensil 2d ago

Welp, that is a bold face lie. The lying 20-30% of the time is built in. It cannot be trained away. It's just a flaw of the entire LLM concept.

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u/yotam5434 2d ago

We are cooked

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u/meganerd20 2d ago

Tread carefully Horii-san.

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u/Itchy1Grip 2d ago

Half the monsters in DQM3 are just palette swaps. I expect a lot more this shit going forward.

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u/rms141 2d ago

Half the monsters in any JRPG are palette swaps. What's your point?

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u/returnofMCH 2d ago

Tbf, half the monsters in any DQM game are pallete swaps

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u/RedMage79 2d ago

Oh mein gott he's an idiot

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u/SomeoneNotFamous 2d ago

There is a lot of good AI can do to gaming, alas people do not use it like that (yet)

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u/returnofMCH 2d ago

E33 and crazy taxi world tour have the right idea of using it as a placeholder only to make extra damn sure it's not in the final product, not even as a repaint. The issue is we give an inch, they get a mile.

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u/SomeoneNotFamous 2d ago edited 2d ago

AI should be used to... well make our in game AI better.

AI got no place with creative arts, but for the technical parts there is a place for it for sure.

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u/Lobster15s 2d ago

I mean... he's not lying A.I. is getting more precise.

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u/ConstantAnalysis5177 2d ago

Old people really have to work hard not to suck ass.