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  • An den guten Regelsystemen liegt es meiner Ansicht nach nicht. Ich glaube, dass sie beim Marketing aus ihren eigenen Fehlern gelernt haben und es perfektioniert haben. In den frühen 2010ern sah’s ja recht schlecht um die Firma aus. Eine Zeit lang haben sie dann jedem und allem eine Lizenz für Merchandise und Spiele gegeben, bis der Bekanntheitsgrad wieder gestimmt hat. Dann sind neue Editionen sind in recht schneller Frequenz rausgekommen, was vielen neuen Spielern Einstiegspunkte gegeben hat. Zudem sind sie bei der Qualität der Miniaturen einfach konkurrenzlos. Hinzu kommt, dass sich bei 40k der Hintergrund, so zusammengeklaut er auch ist, erfolgreich verselbstständigt hat. Sie haben ja seit den 90ern Romane veröffentlicht.








  • “Hollow Pursuit” suggests that there’s no awareness for any kind of social problems surrounding the holodeck and content generated there. Which is kind of silly. So I think the correct answer is probably that the authors did not think about it at all. But humans in Star Trek live in a quasi-communist society, so it would probably just be common practice that creative works are owned by the public. You probably don’t have much of a choice if you want to publish your works. However, you practically never see any contemporary human literature or something like “holo novels”. So my personal ad-hoc theory is that gen AI at this level has killed the literary process as a whole among the human race.


  • I have a theory here:

    There is definitely problematic gen AI in the Star Trek universe, but it’s only ever adressed through the holodeck. It’s made pretty clear that everyone can create programmes there with simple voice prompts. It has also been shown that there are no formal rules for using the likeness of living people in those programmes. This is an oversight in my opinion because that problem would be a common concern. The existence of this kind of technology suggest that any kind of entertainment media can be easily created on a prompt, even through the ship’s computers.

    On the other hand, we rarely hear about contemporary human-made literature. When literature is mentioned it’s usually alien or 20th century. Wouldn’t this suggest that it plays no role anymore? Maybe there are still human writers, but the general public isn’t interested in such things, since they can get what ever they want from a computer.

    So my bottom line is that concerning generative AI Star Trek actually shows how problematic it is, probably by accident. I wouldn’t want Star Trek-level AI, but at least it doesn’t kill everyone.