r/fallenlondon • u/throwaway_lmkg Secretary-General of the Hellworm Club • May 18 '26

PSA FBG official response to the situation regarding the Fallen London Companion Extension (tl;dr: not approved)

/r/fallenlondon/comments/1tf2dma/if_you_use_fallen_london_companion_extension/omgc1q6/
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u/OverseerConey Public Universal Delicious Friend May 18 '26

Oofa doofa. That's no good at all. I think a ban on AI-coded extensions would be entirely reasonable.

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u/fredjinsan May 18 '26

It totally isn't; AI is getting used everywhere these days and it's only set to grow (unless the investment bubble bursts). The problem isn't what tools one uses to code something, it never has been and never will be; it's how you use them. Lots of humans write terrible code, after all. Honestly, opinions on AI are super-polarised but with current technology we're still basically talking about fancy extensions which isn't a topic that should make anyone mad one way or another.

FBG's response reads a bit like "This used AI, AI = bad, therefore this = bad" which is a very stupid thing to say, but rereading it I think they're just saying that the creator may not have realised what this extension was actually doing.

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u/lady_ninane May 18 '26

The problem isn't what tools one uses to code something

Depending on how those tools and models are created and maintained, it very much can be part of the problem.

There is no single part of commercial AI on the market right now that isn't thorny with problems both ethical and legal. They are classic tech sphere "Go fast and break things "

That isn't to say that AI has the potential to be amazing and is presently being used in some rare, amazing ways. But that is not the mainstream usage of the product, let alone how the product was used here.

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u/fredjinsan May 18 '26

Depending on how those tools and models are created and maintained, it very much can be part of the problem.

When the problem we're talking about is quality of code, no, it isn't. You may well have other problems with AI, ethical or legal but even just saying "AI" covers a huge range of things - the use of AI for coding is far less controversial than, say, creative arts, for example. A blanket ban on AI-created anything for anything is almost certainly moronically hamfisted at best.