There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
  • luciole (they/them)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn’t have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn’t AI that laid off thousands of employees, it’s deluded executives who don’t understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

    Generative LLM needs to steal a gargantuan amount of work to produce unreliable yet convincing output. This is the nature of the beast. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” vibes.

    Anyway, I was suspecting that this “issue” might come up so I’ve removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what’s generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

    So it’s fine because Trump sucks? Holy deflection, Batman!

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    5 hours ago

    Update - 13/03/2026 11:10 UTC - The Lutris creator has restored the Claude attribution, with a comment noting “Since it’s such a big fuss, I’m putting the Claude attribution back”.

    From that article. Also, fuck websites that block screenshots.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      34 minutes ago

      The good and unique thing about Lutris is that it has a bunch of user-made install scripts that make Wine/Proton installation much easier, often with only a few clicks.

      Heroic on the other hand is almost exclusively for the Epic/GOG/Amazon Luna stores. It does however have a way of installing a non library game in its own Wine/Proton prefix, but it doesn’t have the install scripts that are often required for extra tweaks and changes that are needed to make some titles playable.

      The only added functionality, the easy creation of Wine/Proton prefixes and the Wine runner manager, can also be found in Bottles. So I wouldn’t call Heroic an alternative, as both Bottles and Heroic only offer half of what Lutris offers.

      • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        40 minutes ago

        Two weeks old, so not super old. Was a little surprised to see it pop up again, but I’m not mad that people are talking about it.

    • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zipEnglish
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      43 minutes ago

      I’ve never been a big fan of either tool, tbh. I’d say Heroic is more tolerable than Lutris, but neither work as well for me as running Steam games through Proton.

      FWIW Lutris has useful install scripts for more popular games sometimes. It’d be cool if you could use them through a better program.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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        5 hours ago

        I tried to switch over to Bottles for my app, couldn’t make it work.

        (I’m sure I’m doing something wrong, but Lutris worked out of the box, so… )