Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT

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Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks! he/him

Dear Molleindustria fans, We owe you yet another apology. Earlier this month, we promised to expedite the release of our upcoming game, Future? No Thanks! and launch it today. We were foolish to disregard the only authority on the matter: Steam, which has kept our game under review for more than three weeks in order to properly assess the scale and scope of the nudity contained within it. Future? No Thanks! deploys dozens of untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs. They appear statically on screen for several seconds. We understand that such sexually charged content warrants a very careful examination. We are thankful to Valve’s review team for its thorough work in keeping Steam free from obscene and horny content. The game will be released whenever their assessment is complete. The Molleindustria Team
emails showing flight delays
Postcard reading: Greetings from Pittsburgh. Socialist Republic Since 2035
A scene of Future? No Thanks!
More importantly, we have a moral claim to ownership: we, as a society, helped make AI possible. It’s not just that government investments have helped kick-start and sustain the tech sector; AI’s success is uniquely built on the uploading of our collective works. This year Anthropic ripped the spines off of, scanned, and then discarded millions of print books — including some long out of print — to “train” its large language models. It’s a scandal. And not just for bibliophiles. Machine learning tools have now “listened to” millions of hours of human-generated music in order to generate new, fully fabricated AI clones. The same is true for generative video which, after having sucked up the entire corpus of digitized video, can now mimic the style of any given director or produce the likeness of any given actor. The collective product of countless authors, thinkers, tinkerers, artists, photographers, filmmakers, craftsmen, farmers, gardeners, designers, architects, and so on have been uploaded into its “brain.” These millions of human “teachers” will forever be uncredited and certainly unpaid for their service.
Paolo having fun with a bunch of colleagues out of the frame
KNITTING STAGE Making art becomes a form of consumption, a leisure activity for the great majority of the practitioners. The production of art is still contributing to the economy overall, but the monetization happens around the artistic process, rarely benefitting the artist.
We are gonna get communist GTA before GTA VI graphic. Character art by marmakar.
A white guy seems genuinely mind-blown by a game titled Future? No Thanks!
Short trailer for Future? No Thanks!
Tetrises poster art
Visualization of AI spending vs revenues from https://isaiprofitable.com/
Picture of MarxNet the artificial superintelligence planning the economy in Future? No Thanks!
Illustration by Caitlin Rose Boyle. The protagonist of Future? No Thanks! Harvey P. Huffstone laying alive in a coffin.
An alien artifact buried in my garden
Reddit ad for Marvel Rivals for horny teens showing Black Cat in contorted poses.
Flyer for the History of Games Conference
Illustration of an old dude and his robot dog walking down a hill on the backdrop of a mildly futuristic downtown Pittsburgh.
Flyer for Carnage Infernational showing some kind of gorey fleshy lump
Objects+Methods lecture series poster
Jacobin Boomer edition mock cover