I've been looking to get one in the UK for days now, absolutely ridiculous.

[ 2023-07-04 13:09:29Z ] 👍 0

hope you're able to snag one. They're great, Lots of fun.

Dang that's crazy! I always thought Valve had their stock issues under control now. I guess that's why they haven't expanded the Steam Deck to other countries.

[ 2023-07-03 12:44:23Z ] 👍 0

it is also a matter of what countries say when it comes to import or made in country or using an inside distributor... so many logistic questions and trying to get the ok to go ahead.

Excellent video as always Liam! Really hoping that Valve improve their communications regarding Steam Deck availability. They seem to get nearly everything right with the Steam Deck experience and it's updates...just not when it comes to the 'getting hold of a Steam Deck in the first place' department.

The simple way to resolve AI art issues: just make it Free and Open Source. AI art should belong to nobody. No person or entity should have claims of ownership on AI art. Ultimately this means no copyright claims on AI art, is it would belong to the public.

[ 2023-07-03 16:21:28Z ] 👍 0

​@@HM-rz8nva replication of a specific artwork by a specific artist would not be legal to sell, even if you smeared a bit of shit on it to make it seem different.

[ 2023-07-03 12:26:41Z ] 👍 1

@@emanuelalmroth6683 Lets take a step back. Could you please explain to be what i misunderstood about Nick's argument? Nick is arguing from a perspective of being for Copyright to premise his argument for how AI art should be handled, and my argument focused on Copyright for that reason. So please explain to me exactly what i misunderstood about Nicks argument. If i really misunderstood something Nick said and misrepresented his argument, i will apologize and correct it. For now, i find it dubious being told i am strawmanning his apparently pro-copyright viewpoint when it comes to AI art.

[ 2023-07-03 12:13:02Z ] 👍 7

@@HM-rz8nv that's a strawman-argument. It's very different between a human making art through inspiration, or a human making art by direct copying other artists works. AI works more like the later at the moment.

[ 2023-07-03 12:05:33Z ] 👍 1

@@nickxcom With all due respect, This argument i don't particularly find convincing when looking past the surface level. Art is inspired from other art, but if you create a new piece even if its inspired from other art, it can't really be classified as Copyright in the traditional sense, lest no new art could ever be created because anything inspired from other art would be arbitrarily considered "copy-right". Frankly, i find that this exposes the inherent flaws of the concept of Copyright in itself. While i don't believe people should profit from digital copies of existing content, the whole notion that people can be criminalized for doing the digital equivalent of painting a reproduction of say the mona lisa for their own personal use, without physically stealing anything or using it for their own profit, is very silly. We live in a world where the only limit to reproduction of digital material is the bandwidth speed of peoples own internet speeds and hardware, and it should be treated as such. Copyright is simply an increasingly out-dated idea.

[ 2023-07-03 11:43:06Z ] 👍 10

It's not the art, it's the model. They are all trained on copyrighted material, so they don't have rights to them in the first place

I won't ever knowingly buy anything that uses AI art. Gross lol

[ 2023-07-03 12:57:24Z ] 👍 0

@@nickxcom why?

[ 2023-07-03 12:00:58Z ] 👍 5

@@CentauriSatoko AI art sucks, it's gross

[ 2023-07-03 11:58:03Z ] 👍 1

Gross? What?

I personally am not really bothered by ai art I have messed with stable diffusion before and I think it's a cool technology I know some would disagree but if i think the game is good I would buy it regardless if it has ai assets or not

[ 2023-07-21 11:41:32Z ] 👍 0

@@HM-rz8nv Yea, for sure human like to take advantages on other people's hard work, cuz it made our like much easier, artists never request to hold a specific art style, they just don't want their works being use for your/ other big companies project or product without even letting them know about it, you're literally taking their own works, make a automatic machine then compete with them, this never sounds right doesn't matter how many excuse you made, a mathematic model like Midjourney or any other generative AI does not function like a human, not even close, this is absolutely not a fair use, your;re just using it as a fairly useful way to steal people's properties

[ 2023-07-03 21:19:29Z ] 👍 2

@@mechanicalmonk2020 Why should the source matter? It's an awful lot like saying that a specific crossbreed of plant can't be recreated by any other person and then that crossbreed being used to create a new crossbreed, because someone created the 'original' first. Or like suggesting that a few lines of code in a program can never be used in another program for a different purpose.This is silly. It's also ironically what leads to big corporations attempting to copyright claim specific styles of art, which.... _hurts_ all artist in general. It makes no sense for specific art styles to be the sole ownership of people or big entities, so the solution can't be rooted in that It's this mentality and it's exactly the sort of thing that leads to corporations claiming copyright on the moon. This is why i argue for The view that AI art should belong to all. Someone could use AI art in a game, but even if that game is sold, the game studio that borrows that art would not be able to own it themselves, it would be public domain. So this setup actually creates a motivation for game studio's to seek out artist so that the game studio owns all of its own assets.

[ 2023-07-03 16:19:15Z ] 👍 2

No one disagrees with the tech being cool. It's the training data that's the issue. The same tech but trained on data that's ethically sourced wouldn't have any of these issues.

Valve are spot on. They have to go the legal route, that's understandable. More excited about AI art for mods. I might actually pay attention to them as they won't look janky in future.

Im completely amazed that stardew is still ranking on the top of every most played list. Hats off to Eric Barone for creating such a gem

Got a few good games in the sale for my deck, but the one I've been loving the most is Final Fantasy XV. Runs great with plenty of battery on "Average" preset and 30fps. Love having such a big, grand adventure to get stuck into for some upcoming travel.

I picked up a 64gb on the sale Thursday night in the UK and it was dispatched Sunday from the Netherlands

In regards to UK stock, I get the feeling that Valve aren't discontinuing within the UK, I think it's the opposite. Just like with Japan and China, I think they want to start selling in retail or at least have a distribution network in the UK itself. When I got mine it didn't take that long but having to wait for it from the Netherlands wasn't exactly the greatest experience. So I wouldn't be surprised if they maybe open a pop up store in London or something in the coming months before Christmas.

I think saying you use "AI" in a game should be viewed the same way as saying you use "databases" or "code" or "audio". It's just a tool. There are many ways to use it, not all of which are just "here is a picture that was generated by Midjourney". I care about devs securing the proper rights for whatever they use, but beyond that, it has to be judged on a case by case basis.

Kingdom Two Crowns has been a really good pick up and play on the steam deck, if you got 10 minutes or an hour you continue where you left off no problems

[ 2023-07-03 17:41:41Z ] 👍 0

Yeah. I really like this game. You only need 3 buttons to play it! And it's just relaxing. Recently I've been playing Spiritfarer. Pretty great if you have just want to lay in the bed and relax.

The AI as technology is fine, but the models currently in use are not. If you use a model, and you don't have all the rights to the data the model was trained on, you are a thief. For me, AI content in a game is a hard no.

My Asus laptop only got 1 year of update, so I don't think long term support goes well with Asus 😭

With the endless ethical and legal issues around GenAI, I would hope that Valve continue being cautious (even if it's just to cover their own arses). Once we have models and datasets for GenAI game assets that are trained from entirely ethical sources (artist permissions, licences, etc.) and not just the "scrape everything and train our models from that" approach that is currently used, then maybe it could be a good thing.

I'll definitely do that buttons mod. I think top 20 games should be expanded to Top 40 or top 100. It's kinda obvious that you can guess most of these game will be on the top, anddd it's boring to see same name, I'd like to see bigger list.

They probably have some delay on stocking steam decks.

I've been wanting to see an LLM set to the task of making NPC dialogue a lot less repetitive. I'm sort of sad about what Valve's policy means for that.

In the EU all versions are available with a estimated delivery of 1-2 weeks, but I agree, Valve really need to push the hardware to new regions, and stock up in the UK as well. Perhaps they have trouble with securing stock in the UK due to Brexit? It could just be a paperwork thing? Anyway, I'm playing Amid Evil, and some retro Amiga stuff. I love the Steam Deck, it's such a versatile power house!

Yes, please deny AI art. F AI. Keep it away from gaming for as long as possible. Games have been crap in recent years and with AI, they'll be even lazier. Steam Deck Buttons! Yes! I was hoping someone would do that. Hoping for chrome buttons. Game recommendations: Bloody Hell Halls of Torment Soul Survivors The OG Resident Evil 4. (It's a classic and runs like a dream) Resident Evil 5 Project Lazarus Void Scrappers Puppet Master The Game (Free to play) Power Hover Retrowave Soulstone Survivors Rogue Genesia Lunacid Boneraiser Minions

AI programs have been known to steal art and other peoples assets for a long time. AI atm is just a big massive search engine. Also privacy is a massive concern when it comes to AI programs and people are sold a lie when it comes to it overall. There is so much fishy stuff going on with it and what it is actually doing when you use it on any hardware. Hopefully a whole raft of laws come in to either ban it or control it and it's development.

[ 2023-07-03 16:15:51Z ] 👍 1

The funnest thing about comments like this is figuring out if they were written by ChatGPT

An OLED Deck might not be such a silly idea. It would be a way of upgrading the Deck a little to keep up more with the competition while not abandoning the minimum system specs standard the current Deck has set.

[ 2023-07-03 16:17:10Z ] 👍 0

He's not saying it's a silly idea. He's saying it likely isn't the case because the legwork for an OLED Deck is pretty massive (Valve needs to get the panels made which for this size and resolution isn't an easy feat, they need to redesign the Deck's architecture, and they likely need to make changes to the SOC in order to support an OLED panel).

AI art is probably more dangerous than NFT’s…

It's 2 weeks in the EU. You guys should not have done brexit.

First of all, thx for tour videos and website. Most of my updates about the steam deck are coming from your amazing work. Secondly, about using ML generating art in video games seems impossible and kinda hypocrite cause you can't assure that no piece of art as been stolen to produce a game... It's the same as using ML for creating code, dialogues, etc.

AH GOD WHY DID YOU OPEN THE VIDEO WITH STEAM SUMMER SALES I HAD FORGOTTEN GAAAHHH!!! MY POOR WALLET!! 😭

One good game I recommend is warhammer 40k space marines with the 2nd game coming out it’s great to get a refresh

at my job, nearly every rog ally that has been sold has been returned and put up for sale again as open box. some of the others being brought in for repairs. doesn’t seem very reliable either

[ 2023-07-03 16:57:55Z ] 👍 0

Ooof, that's not good!

I have information for you, here in Brazil, and the rest of Latin American countries, it is impossible to buy directly from the Valve website, we are forced to buy through an importer and the product arrives here with a value 5 times greater than normal.

AI.... Some games already bit too generic.

Another week, another handheld gaming PC announced. What's coming next week?

I like the decision about the banning of AI art as an amateur artist. I have a lot of respect for professional artist and I think that there profession should be preserved. AI art is fun but I think that this aspect of copyright law is a good thing because AI art is very unclear when it comes to copyright and property. I gave up on drawing since the whole controversy but Valve's decision gives me hope to make some kind of living of my drawings. That said AI art can be fun for private use and I am not completely against and it can be used a creative tool so long as it doesn't violate artists' rights.

I’m still thinking about AI art, my current personal opinion is I dont too much like it BUT I also like to think about things that challenge my beliefs. For arguments sake, How bad AI art can be is situational. As someone who has done art I’ve used others art as inspiration. Heck even some popular artist have styles you can tell have been taken from other popular artist. I say its situational because I’ve never seen any AI Art where compared side by side you can 100 percent tell it was taken from a source. I guess what I’m trying to ask is. What’s the difference from me using an artist style as inspiration and an AI doing the same?

You're absolutely right about questioning long-term support and commitment to all of these devices. The Steam Deck looks like it's more likely to have the lifespan of a console than a typical portable PC, which is a good thing IMO.

Diablo IV!!!

Valve's position on AI is reasonable based on what seems to be the near universal method of training AI. It is a legal minefield and at some point someone with deep pockets will be hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit. Valve is ensuring they are not in the crosshairs of such an eventuality, or that if someone goes after them regardless they can show that they have operated in good faith and have not willfully facilitated the sale of unlicensed copyrighted content within games.

AI Art is awesome

4:03 nice pocket size 😂

Why is star dew valley so popular? Lol.

[ 2023-07-04 23:16:49Z ] 👍 0

Because chill

AI art is good. It will mean more games with good aesthetic and gameplay. It puts a pressure on big corporations which have good graphics but bad gameplay. More freedom the better.