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AI bookends Dolan Darkest's seven-upload week

Big Walk's debugging dispute draws nearly 1.9 million views, while another AI commentary becomes the channel's busiest video right now.

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This Is Just Pathetic

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0:51Dolan distinguishes an IGF jury members' voting pledge from claims that Big Walk was disqualified.
1:10House House says chatbot assistance resolved an engine bug and affected less than 0.1% of its code.
2:08Dolan explains that Steam's disclosure requirements do not cover coding assistance.
2:55He argues that limited debugging assistance should be distinguished from generating a game's creative content.

How much AI is too much AI? Dolan Darkest's most-watched upload of the week finds the important distinction somewhere between making a game and helping its developers fix a bug.

In "This Is Just Pathetic", Dolan separates claims that Big Walk was disqualified from the Independent Games Festival from a statement by some jury members refusing to vote for games using generative AI. He then walks through developer House House's explanation: a chatbot helped resolve an engine problem, with the resulting fixes affecting a tiny fraction of the code. All this unfolds over Fall Guys, giving a rather heated discussion a brightly coloured obstacle course underneath it.

The video has reached nearly 1.9 million views. In the comments, viewers debate the difference between coding assistance and generated creative work; others reach for spellcheck as an analogy. There is also a smaller, very Dolan-specific concern: what business does a Slop Live instalment have running for four whole minutes?

Seven uploads made for a busy week. "Microsoft Is Cooked" brought an extended service outage into the mix, while "I Never Thought This Would Happen" followed an Australian Twitter user's unexpected connection with Chicago Bears supporters. Now "I've Truly Seen It All", another look at AI's supposed wonders, is drawing the most daily views of any video on the channel.

Dolan added 5,000 subscribers over the week, although daily views are currently a little below their usual level. Among nearby commentary channels, Austin Sweatt had a particularly large week for views, while Pinely was quieter. For Dolan, the biggest new audience gathered around a plea to distinguish a debugging tool from an entire game's creative work.

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What viewers say

4 minute slop? I'm sorry Dolan, this is genuinely unforgivable. I'm getting in touch with my lawyer.
@OmarSanchezzleSee it on YouTube
This is literally the one way we want it to be used, as a tool.
@Toadfish10See it on YouTube
“You used computer spellcheck on your book?! Your entire novel is AI slop!”
@voidmayonnaiseSee it on YouTube

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Ngl, that's how AI should be used, not to create designs, not to animate, only speed up some stuff.
@sergioricardosantosdoamara5452See it on YouTube
That Cupcake was fighting for its life for like a solid minute there
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