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Lincoln Carpenter

Tech investor declares 'AI games are going to be amazing,' posts an AI-generated 'demo' of a god-awful shooter as proof

A soldier considers the AI-generated options on their radial menu while aiming at a pair of conjoined twin air conditioners.

On an almost daily basis, a terminally tech-brained individual insists that AI will determine the future of human creativity if we simply believe hard enough. Today, that soothsayer is Matt Shumer, an investor who offered a demonstration of his vision for AI's videogame development potential—and was quickly blasted for it, because the vision sucks to look at.

Shumer—CEO of HyperWrite, a company offering cutting edge AI tools like "Team Member Praise Generator" and "AI Sympathy Message Generator by HyperWrite for Heartfelt Cards"—posted a video on X yesterday with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing." Judging from the boastful "(sound on)," he seemed convinced the video would illustrate the inevitability of our magnificent AI future.

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