Generative AI, spurred on by super-spreader CEOs, has been smeared everywhere—into our games, our music, our art, even our damn emails. And it's not enough that it's terrible at even the most simple tasks assigned to it, like providing basic, easily accessible information; now we've also got to deal with its massive environmental toll, the upheaval of the education system, disinformation, plagiarism and whole new levels of creative bankruptcy.
It's become overwhelming. Which is why it's reassuring when a publisher takes a hard stance against it, like Manor Lords and Against the Storm publisher Hooded Horse. CEO Tim Bender is "committed" to keeping gen AI out of the publisher's games, he says. When Hooded Horse signs devs, it's right there in the contract.
