AI has been the bane of, well, everyone’s existence for over three years now. It started as a gag, a gimmick even, a fun thing to try out and see how far neural networks had come. Now? It’s a corporate trend where they try to convince you that, yeah, productivity is the end goal of society, damn all the Luddites and their desire to keep human creativity intact.
And one of them is, to no one’s surprise, Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games, who has a strong AI stake given how much Unreal Engine has become “AI-friendly” in recent months, to the point where the company actively promotes that fact. And he’s so much in it that he’s now critical of Valve for requiring developers to disclose how they used AI technologies in their games, saying it’s an “irresponsible” thing to do that causes pain to lots of developers.
In an interview with PC Gamer, Sweeney said that “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,” but that issues arise when you “get this Scarlet Letter of AI attached to your product, and now there is a hater community trying to kill the game.”
