[STEAM] New "vibe coded" AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community

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Since Vince Karpathy

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, we've seen a rapid increase in both the

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and

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of using AI models to throw together quick programming projects with less human time and effort than ever before. One such vibe-coded project,

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, launched over the weekend as what coder Dustin Hubbard called an effort to help organize the

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he's helped maintain at clearinghouse Gaming Alexandria over the years, alongside machine translations of their OCR text.

A day after that project went public, though, Hubbard was

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to many members of the Gaming Alexandria community who loudly objected to the use of Patreon funds for an error-prone AI-powered translation effort. The hubbub highlights just how controversial AI tools remain for many online communities, even as many see them as ways to maximize limited funds and man-hours.

"I sincerely apologize," Hubbard wrote in his apology post. "My entire preservation philosophy has been to get people access to things we've never had access to before. I felt this project was a good step towards that, but I should have taken more into consideration the issues with AI."

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