Fuck AI

The only somewhat understandable thing I can think of GenAI could have a use for in games is shoving an LLM into one to get more dynamic-ish dialogue. Everything else just sounds terrible on paper and IS terrible when executed. I saw a trailer for a fully AI-generated game and it looked like the most shovelware garbage ever.

Why are they grouping women and non-binary together?

I think it's such a good case of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

I personally don't mind AI for filler stuff like book titles that you just see the spine of on a shelf. Those kinds of things that just make the world seem more lived in but are very time consuming to put in place. Especially for smaller teams.

But do i trust developers to restrict themselves? No. Not at all. I think it's a can of worms. Better left unopened.

By now, genAI is synonymous with making cheap crap and selling it at full price.

The most positive response listed was for "Dynamic difficulty adjustment" (but still, only 25% has any positive response). On one hand, that sounds okay because it's a mostly invisible change that could smooth out a single player experience. But the more I thought about, I wondered what generative AI would be doing that isn't already possible with normal programming logic.

Even assuming it did work, and was able to turn the balance knobs to make things easier or harder, it would destroy our common understanding of challenges in games. Being skilled enough to defeat Malenia would have no meaning if the fight was constantly rebalancing itself. People already brag about how they defeated Radhan before he was nerfed, now imagine that for every boss, oh, and there's no objective way to know which version of the fight is the "real" one. As with everything genAI related, it turns real expressions of our humanity and turns it into meaningless mush.

Remember this is about gen AI, the kind whose only purpose is to replace artists, modelers, voice actors, etc. with slop that the AI stole from other sources and melted into a low quality souless art without paying. In no way could this ever be considered a good thing.

Men are more pro ai

Not surprised

I'm just starting to dig through all this, but the eye-catching stats right off the bat are not only illuminating, they're in line with a lot of other stats as well as anecdata I've been collecting.

Some dude just the other day was trying to claim there's a "silent majority" of people who are cool with genAI being used in game development, and…well, sorry bro but the facts don't back you up. (Unless you're an old man apparently, the most favorable cohort lol. Even then it's not a majority!)

Digital voice is pretty bad. I figured I’d give it shot on something nonfiction but ended up returning the book. Initially it seemed ok. But every sentence had the same exact cadence, inflections, so it resonated more like a repetitive noise or jingle that needed to stop.

I’m trying to conceive of Commander Shepard or Varric from DA2 with digital voice instead of actors at the helm. The Outsider or Dowd. Minsc even, that’s a different type of repetition.

Clickbait title, this sounds as if some gender, age or motivations may not think AI as negative.