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Yote After Dark

@yote-after-dark.bsky.social

Macro photography
(Based on a true story)

November 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM

pmamtraveller.bsky.social

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social

"Fever Green" (2026), an oil painting by New York-based figurative artist Jesse Zuo

November 8, 2026 at 9:58 PM

Soraya Nadia McDonald

@soraya.press

The limited series based on this mess finna be LIT

Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 5h

That hand on the shoulder was letting him know she got that water park.

This nigga didn’t stand a chance.

November 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM

Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

Based

austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 5h

Over the past month, IGF judges and jurists have had intense, difficulty, generous, and deeply engaged conversations about AI and the games industry.

This statement is the result of those conversations.

This year's IGF entries have been incredible. We've been lucky to play games that surprise, connect, and challenge us, and we're excited to vote for our favorites.

Unfortunately, there has also been a significant increase in the number of submitted games developed with generative AI tools. This has set off some fairly intense discussion and disagreement across the judge and jury pools, and at this point there is no universal consensus on what (if anything) is to be done.

The IGF has affirmed that we may cast our votes according to our own tastes and values. But we, a contingent of IGF jurors, feel that this trend and the games embracing it deserve stronger pushback than a vote in silence.

While IGF leadership has approved the release of this statement, it's important to note that we do not speak for IGF as an organization, or for all IGF jury members. Many jurors had differing perspectives and significant reservations about this statement. Some jurists additionally voiced concern about their ability to safely sign without professional blowback, and we do not intend this letter to serve as a censure of those who were unable to sign.

Above all: Our goal is to state solidarity with those who despair over the future of their art, their craft, and their industry—including those who have experimented with these tools in the past, but who now believe they are not in our best interest.

We know that change does not come at the individual level, but as independent developers, we also know firsthand the value of pushing back on what an industry has deemed "inevitable." As jurists, we feel a responsibility to push past defeatism and aspire to a higher ideal.

The future is not yet settled. You are not alone. We can stand together.

We, the undersigned IGF jury members, believe the following:

1. That generative AI has these negative effects:
Ecological harms at community and planetary levels
Economic harms to working developers and artists
Cognitive and psychological harms to its users
Harm to the increasingly fragile information landscape
Harms to labor and worker power in creative fields

2. That these harms do not depend on what is generated, be it music or writing, art or VO, marketing assets or code.

3. That AI-generated code is not an exception to these harms. Programming is a creative discipline whose labour deserves the same respect we extend to any part of making a game. This extends to the past work used to train these models without the creators' consent.

4. Finally, that the use of these tools is neither a foregone conclusion in our industry nor that their adoption has been wholly voluntary. We stand in solidarity not only with those developers who have the freedom to unilaterally reject them, but also with those who have been compelled by their employers to adopt their use, those working to establish or improve their workplace policies, and especially with those in positions of precarity who are so often those most pressured to abandon their values.

For these reasons, this year we are declining to vote for any game that uses generative AI in any capacity. We urge the IGF to adopt a strong anti-AI policy for future years that disallows games containing any AI-generated work.

A.M. Darke
aurahack
Aura Triolo
Austin Walker
Brendon Chung
Brent Arnold
Dan Floyd
Everest Pipkin
Gianna Ruggiero
isaac io schankler
Johnnemann Nordhagen
Lena Raine
Marielle Kho
Megan Fox
Noel Berry
Osama Dorias
Sam Barlow
Tamara Duplantis
Taylor Mccue

November 9, 2026 at 11:14 PM

Vulkiri ✨

@vulkiri.art

thingy based on a dream idk

November 5, 2026 at 8:42 AM

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈

@haileypiperfights.bsky.social

We can kill the slop machine!

Zucky saying U.S. election results could flow data center expansion. Next to him is the meme of a girl saying "wow" but thinking "based, based, based, based"

November 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM

stucroc

@stucroc.bsky.social

Studragon was obviously based on him.

November 9, 2026 at 7:42 AM

Grudgie the Whale

@grudgie.bsky.social

Of course the incredible irony here is Hegseth replaced actual meritocracy with race based promotions

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Se sorta already knew this, but the details are still jaw-dropping:
*the military has an aggressively meritorious selection process
*Hegseth ran a separate, secret process using internet searches
*Officers denied promotion were told over the phone, given no chance to respond, forced to retire

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 14h

Pete Hegseth had his inner circle google promotable officers and create paper-only files assessing their wokeness.
www.ms.now/news/pete-he...

November 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM

aran 🏳️‍⚧️

@aranaya.bsky.social

I had no idea know you caused the assassination of Charlie Kirk

November 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM

Bucket 🏳️‍⚧️

@bucketthing.bsky.social

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rain @rainissotired.bsky.social · 4d

November 6, 2026 at 5:15 AM

Soft

@soft5b.bsky.social

trying to emulate how my fav artists render 🥲

anthro wolf rendered in black white, studying based on bubblewolf's works

November 7, 2026 at 11:05 PM

Stella Sacco

@antlervel.vet

Cool thing about fascism being an ideology whose whole message is based purely on fear is it means all the true believers are complete fucking pussies

November 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM