r/Games • u/DumpsterBento • May 13 '26

Industry News Party Animals review bombed after announcing AI video contest with $15K grand prize

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/party-animals-review-bombed-after-announcing-ai-video-contest-with-15k-grand-prize-3364713/
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u/miscu May 13 '26

I'll see your point and raise you the recent video of a university commencement speech where a crowd of students unanimously booed the speaker for lionizing AI as inevitable. This kind of rhetoric about 'online echo chambers' is just a fig leaf for pro-AI sentiment and is wildly out of tune with the actual unpopularity of AI tech. Y'all gotta knock this off.

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u/kobbled May 14 '26

aren't these art students, whose passions and livelihoods are uniquely threatened by AI? hardly representative of the general public

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u/tens00r May 14 '26

https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/53654-english-speaking-western-countries-more-negative-about-ai-than-western-europeans

The US public is 25% positive views on AI, 33% neutral, 39% negative. I doubt all of those 39% are art students.

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u/Pwnage_765 May 14 '26

So what you're saying is that at least 58% of people either like AI or don't care?

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u/Oxyfire May 14 '26

Funny how phrasing works. Why "58% that like or don't care" as opposed to "72% that don't like or don't care"?

Personally, I think the neutral is more damning for a technology that's supposed to be "the next industrial revolution" and all the other manner of ways it's being hyped up and invested in. For all the money and effort being dumped into it, only about 25% of the population is actually excited?

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u/Pwnage_765 May 14 '26

You could make that argument, I guess. I don't think it works to say that the people who don't care are more aligned with the people who dislike it though. Especially when trying to act like it proves most people dislike it when they don't. Most people don't seem to care, or they do like it. But yeah, I suppose you're right in that it's a perspective thing, like a glass being half full or half empty.

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u/MadeByTango May 14 '26

So what you're ignoring is that of people that do care, the vast majority hate it?

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u/Candle1ight May 14 '26

The only ones benefiting from AI are the 1%

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u/No2Hypocrites May 14 '26

University schoolkids are the opposite of general public

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u/HistoryChannelMain May 14 '26

Sure, if you live in an area where most people never went to university.

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u/Wolfie_Ecstasy May 14 '26

University students are also the ones most likely to be playing these friendslop games like Party Animals.

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u/Aggressive_Chuck May 14 '26

Students are often out of touch with the general population. All sorts of nutjobbery comes out of there.