Spirit Crossing's AI Problem

AI "assisted" Code is still generative AI and it's weird how people try to justify that it's not Last week I wrote at length about how much I was enjoying the Spirit Crossing playtest, a life sim MMO being built by the team that made Cozy Grove. One of the first things I did before loading up the game was check to see if the Steam page had an AI use disclosure because in the back of my head, I worried that given the financial status of the studio (TLDR: was indie, got bought by Netflix, bought itself back from Netflix, is now indie again) there might be so called "cost-cutting" measures like AI in use. Obviously I'd hoped not, but that's an ever-present concern; I do this for every game on Steam at this point.1 Thankfully there were no AI disclosures on the game's Steam page so I went into it with open eyes and heart and, well, I've gotten trampled on a bit. Claude, the Wilderness Storm Yesterday, Duck AI Slop, a sort of watchdog resource for keeping track of AI use posted an update…