cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49263187
Tim Sweeney claims it’s a “Scarlet Letter” which makes players “try to kill the game”
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has criticised rival Valve for forcing studios to disclose when they use AI in game development.
Epic recently showed how it was integrating AI into Unreal Engine 6.
Time Sweeney said:
“If you want to launch a game, and get it as widely publicized as possible, you’ve got to put it on Steam so people can wish list it, and if you want to play it on Steam, then you have to get this Scarlet Letter of AI attached to your product, and now there is a hater community trying to kill the game.
“I think it’s really irresponsible of Valve. They shouldn’t do it, because it makes it much, much, much harder for a game developer to have a chance of success. You have to choose from either not using tools that can make you way more productive, and probably failing due to competition that does.”
Which is totally ignoring the factor that the user should know about the purchase it makes and be able to decide for themselves. Transparency for the player is not a bad thing.
Nobody’s saying its not allowed. Freedom not at issue. My freedom to know what I’m buying is being respected. A sticker on the box. A tiny tag in the corner of the entire store page.
What future ai tools? This shit is a dead end, all the money and all the silicon has been ramming its head into a mountain of granite for six years. You can’t even buy a gaming computer, much less get funding for real ai research, and the blowback is going to chill the field for decades. Again.
‘Art is hard’ yeah, you aren’t addressing that. The actual making of art is part of the art. You would fucking know that if you had ever made any. There is a difference between art and vibes.
Ai does not, at present, have jack shit. It can optimize my StarCraft build order. Which it could do in 2010.
Cool, love that for them.
I’ll be fucking dead, and if we don’t cut the shit on hyper consumption, everything but maybe roaches will too. Do you think data centers will outlive us by more than five minutes?
You didn’t even fucking respect me enough to write this yourself did you? Choke to death sucking lies out of sam altman’s weird rapey dick, if you’re not too old for him.
But also
Six years ago I think I would have offered to be this person’s friend, or run a ttrpg for them, or teach them about art. But you can’t even do that from here. They can’t engage. There’s no vector for salvaging humanity, and they don’t even understand what they’re not doing? How can I respect others with this shit poisoning their idiot-fat?