#gposingway

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Day 2 - Light

CTRL+F "What is" if you want to go straight to the "what is GPosingway?" section.

Some context first

Screenshot made with Wi-Fi's preset Inflorescence (yes, it's AI and it's relevant)

A few days ago, a post made the rounds about GPosingway, Wi-Fi's presets and Leon Aquitaine's opinion on generative AI. What started as a simple post of someone setting boundaries about screenshots containing AI generated stuff (so far, so good) ended up, with the help of two people's additions, as a gaggle of shit based on hearsay, misinformation, fear-mongering and someone's personal vendetta that inevitably ended up as harassment.

For some reason, several hundred people felt the need to enable it. Because apparently what the "nice and welcoming" FFXIV community needs is pearl clutching over (only one brand of) copyright infringement, and bullying.

So I'm posting to hopefully share what GPosingway truly is, since apparently it was too much to ask to just go to their GitHub page and read three lines of explanation.

Just to be clear: this isn't permission to go harass them or anyone who uses GPosingway, with or without AI-generated textures. You're not twelve and being an abusive control freak isn't sexy. Behave.

Customary disclaimer

For the record, I'm not particularly comfortable with generative AI. I'm also not comfortable with porting assets from other games, unofficial merchandising (incl. commissions of your blorbo from the game), data-mining and taking screenshots of glamours that aren't officially available in game yet.

As I laid my eyes upon the Azem crystal I bought from a friend some time ago, however, I figured I lost my right to cast the first stone. And, frankly, sometimes those commissions are just really pretty.

But here's a stack for those of you morally pure enough to stone people over copyright infringement. I'm sure none of you has ever used a movie or anime character as a pfp in your life—let alone a stolen fanart—so have fun.

(Also please don't stack stones irl. It's bad for the little critters who depend on them to live and reproduce.)

What is GPosingway?

It's ReShade with a bunch of presets.

Yeah, that's it.

It's literally ReShade and it comes with a bunch of presets that are compatible with that version of ReShade and the game and don't conflict with each other.

No, it's not a fork.

It's ReShade. With a bunch of presets. That you don't have to hunt on three thousand discords, patreons, kofis, websites, etc.

Basically, GPosingway's main appeal if that it's less bothersome than hunting down presets on your own and making sure everything is compatible.

Anyway.

It's not perfect for reasons I'll describe later, so if you decide you don't want to use GPosingway anymore, here's what you need to do: nothing.

It's just ReShade. With a bunch of presets.

You don't have to uninstall ReShade to then reinstall ReShade like I've seen someone say, that'd be stupid and a waste of time. Just make sure the presets you use remain compatible with the version of ReShade you have and that's it.

And because it's literally just ReShade, it also means that you can add, change or delete presets like you would with any other ReShade install. And you can delete or just not use textures you find suspicious, because believe it or not, you're not being victimized by your shaders and the Devil isn't here to tempt you.

Do you know what GPosingway is not, though? A stain on your soul.

What's the problem with it?

Well, Leon Aquitaine, the dude at the helm of the project, is pro generative AI. And because he's pro generative AI, he will and has agreed to include presets in GPosingway that use AI generated textures, like Wi-Fi's*.

Which you can yeet from your folders in ten seconds top, if you've installed ReShade through GPosingway and didn't know it was there.

And that's it, really.

(*Neither of them hid it, to be clear. Though I will grant you that they could be more forthcoming on the GitHub page itself.)

Now what?

Well, now you can do whatever you want. Use it, don't use it, the choice is yours. What you're doing on your own computer is no one's business but yours anyway.

Just don't go harassing people or smearing them online because you disagree with them. It apparently needs saying, so I'll say it: bullying people out of a community is much worse than generating textures with AI or using said textures.

If you don't like that GPosingway exists as it is, here's a list of things you can do:

your own ReShade package

sharing a list of your favourites presets to make them easier to find

sharing existing lists

if you really have that much energy to spend, organizing with other people to lobby your government and put limits to what AI is used for and how

And absolutely all those options will be better for your self-esteem than callouts and harassment of a random dude online.