Yeah I can’t get too all fired about this honestly. I think llms and the like could be a great tool in a game designer’s belt provided it’s used well.
And you CAN use it well. Don’t believe the hype. If you’re a programmer or designer, play with this stuff yourself, preferably using open source models run on your own machine (it’s falling off a log easy now with tools like Ollama, even have AMD GPU support these days!).
Of course AI generated drivel is corrosive and horrible, and we should consistently downvote it and educate people about it so it stops being profitable.
For an alternative and erudite take on why all this AI generated crap may not actually spell doom, give this a read if you feel like it.
Overall a good idea. Yeah, there are potential legal issues that could potentially come up if court cases go against the AI gen companies, but that’s the bridge that will get crossed if (not necessarily when) it comes to it.
One thing I don’t get though is the whole “guardrail” thing on live-gens. There is no system that is 100% preventable from someone getting it to say problematic stuff.
If Anthropic and OpenAI can’t screw it down all the way, how can some game company do it? In practice, this’ll mean that basically no game will come with a live service AI. This is like tying people saying stuff in voice chat to the company running the multiplayer servers.
Well-intentioned idea, but not gonna actually work.
AI is okay to use if you make it do the chores, not in creative part. Otherwise it would be an insult to people who create original content.
As if anyone trying to make a quick buck cares if they are insulting anyone?
I meant Valve for allowing AI. Hope they can make it right. It’s a gray area in my opinion.
Well… Who’s ready for an endless stream of low quality AI asset flips?
We’ve already seen what AI-generated books have done to platforms like Amazon. I suspect that this will eventually be the end of “open” uncurated digital storefronts, since AI will eventually allow for crappy content to be produced at a faster rate than it can be consumed and it’ll become impossible to discover anything worthwhile.
There are also good stuff done with AI, for example there is this game called Suck Up where you are a vampire and you go door to door trying to get people to let you in. People you are trying to convince are basically chatbots and it works a lot better than you’d expect
This sounds awesome. Wishlisted!
I am not sure whether AI will make the creation of asset flips much easier though, given that store bought assets are already being dropped into a ‘game’ already.
Ima need an AI filter. I don’t want that shit in my games. If it starts being in every game, I’ll just dig my old Xbox up. 🤷
