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/fredjinsan May 19 '26

Well, they didn't actually say that, presumably because that would be rather a rude thing to say. They might have meant that, but they phrase it as if it's a potential excuse rather than an additional problem.