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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 29/09/2025

This is a really interesting report with a somewhat misleading title. Come along as I ramble about AI adoption and this report🧵 Also, in case anyone was wondering you can't just "slap some AI on it" and expect revolutionary change. It just doesn't work like that.

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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The singularity is awesome

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To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Tech Guy: I have attained immortality! Me: Wow, you figured out how to stop aging? Tech Guy: No, I trained an AI on my emails to create a perfect copy of my personality. Then I uploaded it into a robot dog with M3GAN’s face. It will live forever Robot: As a businessman I often schedule meetings

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 30/05/2025

For the last year I've had the privilege of working with the Kennesaw State University (@kennesawstate.bsky.social‬) Game Studio, and now our first student-developed game is finally ready for release on Steam. Presenting Chiba, probably the cutest Sokoban-style game on the market!

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Chiba on Steam

A colorful pixel art box pushing puzzle game where you control a culinary canine. With a variety of ingredients at disposal, utilize scorching grills, slippery butter, and sticky syrup as you solve al...

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 21/05/2025

Dr Fiesler is an actual ethicist and has a more informed take than mine.

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 21/05/2025

This is the THIRD paper I've seen in the last year that uses people's data in a way that is deeply ethically problematic. If games scholars keep doing this it is going to seriously harm everyone's ability to do research with online gaming communities as they start closing off to scientists.

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Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)

Discord has evolved from a gaming-focused communication tool into a versatile platform supporting diverse online communities. Despite its large user base and active public servers, academic research o...

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 28/04/2025

This experiment is a textbook example of "Just because we can doesn't mean we should" research. Doing this without community consent and buy-in is wildly inappropriate. Not only does it risk harming respondents, it also poisons the well for other, more serious, researchers. Absolutely unacceptable.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

i would simply put the ai farms in antarctica and pipe the melted fresh water to the parched equatorial climes

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

we’re hiring a historian! this is a really interesting opportunity for anyone considering alt-ac possibilities

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 15/12/2024

Google Stadia

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Helpful to remember that computers got superhuman in chess 40 years ago and it's still as popular as ever. Apply to math, writing, games, etc. Computers can't take away joy and sometimes they enhance it

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I remember when you could just buy a computer program like Microsoft Word or Photoshop and just have it on your computer forever without having to pay monthly or yearly. What a time that was

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 07/12/2024

I think we're starting to butt up against what @codingcrafter.bsky.social & Jim Whitehead call the expressive range. Basically, we're starting to see sameness appear in the output. It took longer because these LLMs are so powerful, but that expressive limit is still there. We've just hidden it.

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 05/12/2024

Caves of Qud is up there with Dwarf Fortress as the most innovative games for PCG and generative AI. Happy to see it hit 1.0!

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Steve Bromley @stevebromley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Treating game development as an engineering challenge, rather than a player experience challenge. Putting people infront of things, and iterating, is essential to intentional design.

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 05/12/2024

🎶 To the pirates of Uzbekistan, from Aral Sea to Samarkand, raise a tankard to the sky and say, Uzbekistan is a pirate land. 🎵

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Are you looking for an internship (undergrad or grad!), can legally work in London, and want to make experimental work with LEGO bricks, digital *stuff*, and creativity? Consider applying to my team! www.lego.com/en-gb/career...

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LEGO DESiGN iNTERNSHIP - Careers - LEGO.com

LEGO DESiGN iNTERNSHIP: Job Description Join the LEGO Design Internship Talent Pool Are you a student who loves being creative and has a curiosity about design?...

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Overleaf is down so I am forced to comprehend the horrors

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 30/11/2024

Fundamentally this boils down to the importance of game design. Just shoving tech into a game isn't going to meaningfully improve the player experience. AI really is no exception.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 29/11/2024

This is a tricky one. The publishing industry is broken, but I'm not entirely convinced that Spines is going to change that in any meaningful way. This project seems more like an AI-powered vanity press than an actual tool set that would help authors. 🧵 where I rant about AI support tools.

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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 24/11/2024

Although it's hard to beat 1995-1997 there were some pretty damn good games released this year. Satisfactory, Space Marine 2, and Helldivers 2 come to mind. We also saw a new edition of DnD, and the MTG Foundations set is a great entry point into that game.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 24/11/2024

I do really appreciate Valve's new rules here. If you're not ready to commit to what you will provide in a Season Pass - don't offer a Season Pass. Players are buyers, not investors. partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/se...

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Season Passes (Steamworks Documentation)

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 24/11/2024

I want to add The Internet Archive to this hill, and then I'm going to die on it.

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 24/11/2024

Cory Doctorow's concept of "enshittification" comes to mind here. We had a good thing going with the old Internet, but it got monetized to death.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Games are reasonable stepping stones as testbeds for AI progress. NetHack and text adventure games hit on modern AI weaknesses. I literally just gave a talk on why we should take Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games seriously as AI challenges.

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 22/11/2024

This comes up a lot in my talks this past year. The more you understand generative AI, you can not only begin to see the genuinely interesting things it can do, but also be enraged at how people exploit its capabilities through IP theft and shoddy productising. Be informed, and be angry!

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 21/11/2024

🧵about this really cool project! The KinOS team doesn't seem to have gotten to the actual writing phase yet, but the current system has a lot of potential. Ambitious projects like this are fantastic for pushing the boundaries of what AI can do, but they're limited by the current capabilities of AI.

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🌌NLR

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 21/11/2024

Hey! I'm a computer scientist exploring how humans interact with AI, focusing on embodied AI in games. I offer expert consulting in R&D, org development, and professional training. More info: www.warpefelt.se/consulting

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Consulting — Henrik Warpefelt, PhD

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Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Just a reminder that I am about to complete my Phd in Procedural Content Generation, and I am looking for a job :') I have about 5 years of experience as a programmer in AA and AAA studios, I worked on custom engines, Unity, and Unreal. I can work full time, part time, as a consultant, anything!

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