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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-27T18:33:35.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> **tldr** - Not actually terribly concerning for me. But I am worried people will see my game, say \"This person appeared out of nowhere and dropped a whole game. That's sus, let's investigate. Hey, I found a dozen red flags. This is AI generated.\"\n>\n> It would make me feel sad if people were accusing me of using AI in a way I couldn't prove against... But, it would mean a lot of people were taking interest in my dinky game. So... Win?\n\n* * *\n\nThis isn't a concern that's overbearing for me, but it is enough that I want to write down my apprehensions ahead of time.\n\nHere's what I am afraid of:\n\nI release my dinky game. It blows up more than I expect, and people on huge platforms (YouTube, Instagram, etc) which I don't really use start discussing it.\n\nC-list YouTubers start making videos like \"ANOTHER METROID 1 REMAKE??\" or \"THIS GODOT METROIDVANIA DOESN'T HAVE A MAP??\", until some guy is like \"This game was AI GENERATED and I have PROOF\".\n\nMaking something like this is hard, and it takes a lot of knowledge in a lot of areas! I don't want to toot my own horn here, but I think one of the big \"AI tells\" is when an amount of quality in a product is disproportionate to the incentive for the creator. If you fell asleep in 2016 and woke up today, and someone told you computers can generate code and pictures and sound now, then the only \"tell\" you'd have for these things is if the effort seems disproportionate for the subject, or if the skill seems disproportionate for the creator.\n\nSo when someone appears out of nowhere and drops a complete game with minimal artistic salience and zero opportunity to generate revenue, you'd pause for a second.\n\nSo someone who gets this inkling might go digging, and they'd find many red flags:\n\n  * I claim to have been active since 2024, but my GitHub activity tracker only shows contributions starting in April. This is because my git email didn't match my GitHub email, but what kind of freak uses more than one email address?\n\n  * I used to be an AI researcher (!!) whose opinions of LLMs are less strong than \"These are useless world eaters and their users are ontologically evil\".\n\n  * There are inconsistencies in my code and structure that. Why do some timers count down to zero, while others count up? Why do some particle effect scenes parent to a Node2D while others are their own root? Why is A, B, C tilemapped but not X, Y, Z? Why is the project structure all over the place?\n\n  * The breadth of skills I need for this project (web dev, spritework, 3D rendering, programming, making music) are kind of huge. This is because I am 30 and have been making stuff on the computer for awhile, but...\n\n  * This postsona of mine has only been publicly active since ~2025. I don't have credence as someone who makes things.\n\n  * If this blows up, there will be 1000 small changes to make, but by release I'll want nothing to do with it. That's why it's open source. But if the dev can't make this tiny easy change, that might be because it's AI, right?\n\n\n\n\nI'm especially concerned because I already see other people being accused of using AI (when I don't think they have). Should I have been recording me making it? I've been accused of using AI before for tasks I consider easy to achieve (reading a few pages of text, writing a few paragraphs, using precise language which includes big words, or writing scripts or math to make an argument). And that puts me in a position of saying \"I don't think what I did was superhuman\".\n\nAnd most importantly, I like to be someone who is specific when I talk, and I happen to know a lot about what we call \"AI\". I said I used absolutely no AI, but I _have_ used search engines. And (1) I've _probably_ gotten an answer at least once from one of those AI blurbs that pop up, but even then, (2) Bing (which DuckDuckGo relies on) and Google both use transformers as part of their ranking algorithms, and I'd count that as \"AI\" too. I think \"absolutely no AI\" conveys the truth better, even if it's not literally true.\n\nAgain, this isn't an overbearing concern. I really just wanted to write it out. And if this does come to pass, it'll mean a lot of people are playing my game, and that'll make me very happy regardless of what people say :D",
  "title": "I am afraid of being \"aivestigated\", even if I don't think that's very likely:",
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