Just wanted to say that as someone who has been active on Perchance for over 4 years, I have pretty much stopped using it entirely because of all the AI stuff. It was fine when it was just some plugins you could use for generators, though it was kind of annoying to have the generators page flooded with nearly identical low-effort AI image makers. But now that the AI has been added as an actual part of the generator creation process, it’s just sad. The soulless robot taking snippets of code from the internet will never be the same as an actual human, it has no creativity, no real skill, and no personality to add to the generator. The fact that Perchance is forcing all this AI on us just makes me sad. It’s sad to see what was once one of my favorite sites fall victim to AI slopification. Goodbye for now, Perchance.

  • perchance@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    The /generators page criticism is fair. I’d like to add some sorting/filtering options.

    I’m not convinced by:

    But now that the AI has been added as an actual part of the generator creation process […] The fact that Perchance is forcing all this AI on us

    You can turn off all the AI features (bug checker, autocomplete, ai helper). If you can’t disable them, then that’s a bug. If the ability to disable is not enough, and you instead want me to permanently prevent everyone else from using the AI editing features, then no, I’m not going to do that. I don’t think this is a good suggestion.

    An aside, to be clear: I don’t care about the aesthetics or tribal noise-making around use of AI tools. I do care about making a platform that makes it easier for newbies to start creating fun/interesting/useful things (even if they’re basic/slop/boring to more experience devs). So if your problem is the use of AI itself in creating generators, then you should expect things to get worse from here on out, so it might save you some pain to just bite the bullet and make it a “goodbye forever”.[1] If your concern is the quality of generators on the /generators page, or the quality of the AI helper/autocomplete outputs, then these are both temporary issues.

    [1] I have on my todo list a guide for ‘migrating off perchance’, but it’s not exactly near the top. @VioneT@lemmy.world is probably already busy enough, but pinging in case they can or have already written a guide on this, or somewhat related (e.g. perhaps glitch.com intro). There are also some alternative random generator sites to look into listed on the /welcome page. If anyone knows of a new/unlisted one, I’m happy to add a link there.