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Behind Infinite Craft, one of the internet's favourite time-killers, its creator wrangles with AI "alchemy"
A look at the process of creating the browser game Infinite Craft, including what it means to wrangle AI.
By licensing Meta's generative AI Llama 2 to produce the elements and connections, plus separate server hosting costs via TogetherAI, Infinite Craft racks up quite the maintenance bill. Everyone from newspapers to visual artists to best-selling authors is suing AI companies for feeding language models a buffet of their copyrighted works as training data. Even big tech's best efforts tend to produce similarly problematic overcorrections, like Google Gemini depicting Nazi soldiers and the Founding Fathers as people of colour.
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