A new study attempts to prove gamers aren't sold on AI, but I didn't think the effects were this significant
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A new study from Game Oracle demonstrates the negative effects the use of AI can have on sales (and reputation). There's a lot to unpack here, but the main message is resounding: we're not yet ready for the future of gaming.

It’s a different story for the more established studios with an existing following and previous titles. Game Oracle found that the use of AI by these studios resulted in a significant 40% to 60% drop in sales.

That’s a huge difference. AI stigma seems to hit competent developers with a lot to lose the hardest, and I’m not sure that game studios are ready to accept it.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The idea that you can remove humans entirely from the process is genuinely one of the most absurd and misanthropic things I’ve ever heard, a borderline sociopathic understanding of art. About as bad as any capitalist understanding of creativity and creation.

    It’s also un-Marxist. Only human labor can add value to anything. And while someone could argue that non-human animals can also perform socially/ecologically necessary labor (bees pollinating flowers), taking the human out is just an organic composition of capital where everything is constant capital. And we know what happens to capitalism when variable capital no longer exists.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      12 days ago

      And capitalism is literally killing the bees. People talk about the fact that beehives keep dying, as if it is some grand mystery involving cellphone towers or other nonsense, but it is because we keep shipping them around the country and spreading diseases among the wild bee populations. Those bees would not be naturally producing the amount of value they do without human labor.

      Like, bees are extremely exploited animals, but nobody usually gives a shit because they are insects.