I realize I will have to make this project sooner or later, so might as well do it right now. // So about the AI situation, It's horrible. From what I know Scratch is using it to feed off of data from people's projects (most likely without their consent) and run moderation. Moderation is as of now GOD-AWFUL because projects and comments are now in a landmine field where ANY minor mishap with guidelines gets you puppy guarded with a ban. They don't even tell you exactly how you screwed up, they just expect you to already know even when it's damn near undetectable (not in my case but I am aware ST is stricter with comment language and I have been briefly comment-banned before). Having AI be your watch-guard is a terrible decision in general, and having it consume gallons of data from random projects on Scratch for whatever reason is also just as bad. Plus, by using AI in Scratch AT ALL, you are very much destroying the whole point of the website: creativity, imagination, and a learning curve, made specifically for young kids new to computer programming or coding in general. I'm sure ST is still smart enough not to shove in generative AI into Scratch (ex. image generation, code generation, etc), but even then, the point still stands. In conclusion, Scratch is basically bound to collapse in on itself if this keeps up. AI being in charge of moderation is proving a crapfest for people on Scratch, the website is damaging the wonderful picture it formed for itself since its first public release in 2007, and ST is simply condoning all of this mayhem in their own website, letting all demands to fix Scratch go in vain. // As for me, The whole AI situation SUCKS, but I suppose if I don't really have many other options to go to considering I'm just a teenager running under parental permission for nearly everything, Scratch is just barely livable. I will still post the usual crap on here, but once I get an account on GJ or itch.io or whatever slides with my parents, I'll probably move there and leave Scratch forever UNLESS ST makes themselves actually useful and gets rid of the AI scattered about everywhere (knowing them tho it's not likely). Otherwise, I really don't know what to do in all this horrid mess. Please know one thing, though: NO AI IS AND EVER WILL BE USED IN MY PROJECTS OR WHATEVER I MAKE. // I feel I have said everything I wanted to say. // [Music from Soundtrap] [Chair image from Google]
