When it seems like the entire world, or at least everyone in the gaming community, is united in defiance against the proliferation of AI in games, it's jarring to see game companies increasingly embrace the tech as a way to streamline efficiency and, in a lot of cases, displace human jobs. A recent survey could shed some light on that dichotomy.
In a recent survey of 3,800 Steam players conducted by The GameDiscoverCo newsletter, an alarming number of respondents expressed that they were mostly fine with AI being used in video games. The results found that, of surveyed respondents, a whopping 23.4% "have absolutely no problem with it," which I find shocking, while 19.6% said they were simply "fine with it."
