Am I the only person that doesn't care about AI in games, as long as it is good?

It’s unemployed neck beards or folks who work low skill jobs.

Anyone with a decent technical job is using or being encouraged to use co-pilot or gen AI by their employer.

To the barista it sounds like a big deal. They have no frame of reference for AI use in a professional manner. They only have a context of AI slop on social media.


Meanwhile I use co-pilot to take care of the early leg work on presentations and projects every week at work that go to executives.


Obviously I don’t just say hold my beer co-pilot has this. I spend a ton of time prompting, validating, editing, checking sources, etc.

Then once I was have a decent early draft I go through and make it mine. It’s just much easier to start with a PowerPoint that is already 50% of the way there than from scratch.


Unless a studio is literally vibe coding an entire game and shipping it. I do not care if they supplement their development process with these tools.

I’m perfectly fine with it in some applications and less so in others. On the positive side, I think AI makes a ton of sense for random NPC chatter/responsiveness to make the world feel more alive. Also perfectly fine using it to create textures from real world items (rock, grass, etc). I’m less good with using AI to create truly custom assets, as that’s going to inherently steal from something else, as it’s the only thing AI is capable of.

On the extreme end, I have zero interest in playing a game with AI narrative. It’s not only going to be plagiarized, but it’s going to be awful plagiarized garbage.

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Am I the only person that doesn't care about AI in games, as long as it is good?

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No. The overwhelming majority of gamers do not care.

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I won't say who.

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Sandfall?

I'm with you. I feel the same way about film for that matter too.

AI will be widely adopted by every single organization that produces software on the planet, it pretty much already has to a degree.

The distinction will be whether or not it's used judiciously, to speed up building banal things you don't care to allow the talent to focus their attention on things you do care about.

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AI generating the entire game and it being a weird, bland, incoherent mess.

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What about localization and translation?

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I think it would do a terrible job and cause more headaches than it solves, but I don’t have an objection as an outsider.

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currently

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When it can do better, we can discuss it then

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I'm just saying I've seen the general chatter about AI on this site. If this was on any game other than Claire Obscur, this thread wouldn't have happened.

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I didn't care with any game used AI

Not Black Ops, not Alters, not BF6, and now E33

My point is people are ONLY making a big deal because it was E33

and the sad truth? it was used for a couple of placeholder textures that were accidentally left in the game and patched out within 5 days of release, No gen AI was even used.

If this were a shitty game, it would not have been as big a story.

Had this been an AC: Shadows or a Veilguard, my reaction would be EXACTLY the same. I don't care if it is good.

You can track all my AI posts regarding AI use in ALL INDUSTRIES (games. movies, TV, app development, et al), If it is good, I am fine with it.

And after seeing the DLC abortions Shadows has shite out. . .I think they may need to consider gen AI usage.

I think the first industry to go is the voice acting industry, and I feel bad for those that are about to get canned.

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Sure, but we aren't reading tea leaves here. It is inevitable.

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I don't know that it is. The bedrock foundation of current AI tech is that it is derivative, not inventive. You can't fix that by improving or iterating on the tech; you would have to fundamentally alter it from the ground up. I'm not aware of any proof of concept that we are capable of doing so anytime in the foreseeable future.

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Article says within 4 years. Even if that is too soon, it is universally seen as inevitable. Once AGI is achieved, things will happen fast.

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I disagree fundamentally with the article's premise. Being able to flawlessly mimic human speech is lovely, but it's not indicative of achieving singularity unless it understands what it's saying. As long as "AI" is simply an LLM providing the next most likely word, it's not an actual intelligence anymore than your email auto suggesting options to complete your current sentence.

Again, I'm not saying we never get there, but the tech AI is currently built on is inherently derivative and incapable of original thought. And if it's incapable of original thought, it's incapable of original creations.