https://www.wired.com/story/video-game-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/
created by Maxwellsdemon17 on 24/01/2025 at 21:36 UTC
448 upvotes, 20 top-level comments (showing 20)
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Comment by pillbinge at 24/01/2025 at 22:01 UTC
93 upvotes, 3 direct replies
It's happening in my field which is wild, so I assume it's happening in others. Educators' bosses are scrambling to utilize AI, even though they don't know what that means. It's giving us more work to do in some cases, no less, because we're expected to train an AI to give us something back and then run lessons off them sometimes. This means I should be able to give a prompt, get a huge lesson, and teach it to individuals in an insane amount of time. This doesn't happen. It can't happen. So it won't happen. So now we have AI which should streamline the paperwork but it's being used to give educators more work so that the bosses look better. It will only contribute to more burnout.
Comment by lightninhopkins at 25/01/2025 at 00:52 UTC
37 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Yeah, so is the rest of the software industry. It's being shoved down our throats. I get that an LLM can be helpful in some cases. Like a tool in a tool box. We are being asked to find use cases. Anything that might, possibly, benefit from an expensive LLM service. I'm assuming that the C- Levels are getting kickbacks on this because it makes no sense.
Comment by Maxwellsdemon17 at 24/01/2025 at 21:36 UTC
39 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"In theory, generative AI could help some developers lighten their workloads. That’s not happening. Instead, developers are reportedly working longer hours than they have in years. Thirteen percent of respondents reported putting in 51-plus-hour weeks, up from 8 percent of respondents last year. While those additional hours could be attributed to devs taking on additional work to make up for colleagues lost during 2024’s massive industry-wide layoffs, many voiced concerns that AI was also a factor. “We should use generative AI to help people be faster at their jobs, not lose them,” one worker wrote."
Comment by Dragon_wryter at 25/01/2025 at 01:13 UTC*
48 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Hey you guys remember when iPhones first came out and nobody bought them, everyone thought they were useless garbage, and the world all had to be strong armed and bullied into using them until we finally realized how awesome they were?
Me neither, because when something new is a great, innovative, world-changing idea that works amazingly and makes everyone's lives better/easier, you don't have to force it on anyone. They'll beat a path to your door and fight over who gets it first.
Comment by ptraugot at 25/01/2025 at 03:45 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Corporate will do whatever it takes to lower the bottom line and increase margins. They are basking in the golden rain, not realizing that ultimately they are getting pissed on by the lure of AI as the end all solution to financial nirvana.
(This post may have been written by AI)
Comment by Eric848448 at 25/01/2025 at 02:40 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It’s not just game developers. It’s all of us.
Comment by Paranoid_Japandroid at 25/01/2025 at 23:08 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Gee it's almost like this a technology nobody fucking wants except the insatiable MBA class whose only mission is to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else and society in general
Comment by jethoniss at 25/01/2025 at 16:40 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm not remotely close to game development, but I'm sick of my bosses' AI initiatives. Bosses the world over think that it's ready to do real analytical work. Then it falls flat on its face and does something stupid and makes the whole company look like ass.
And they (bosses) don't give up on it! Oh ChatGPT-o1 is way better? Not it's not. Fuck off.
In my case some of this is driven by venture capitalist board members who are pushing it in all of their investments.
Comment by GrimgrinCorpseBorn at 25/01/2025 at 01:35 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
AI continues to be a buzzword, news at eleven
Comment by Qwirk at 25/01/2025 at 00:09 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Companies are in a scramble to replace humans with AI to save as much money as possible. The complexity of your job will determine when it will happen.
Comment by Upstairs-Parsley3151 at 25/01/2025 at 08:07 UTC
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It's a free market, if AI is so amazing, it will surely be more amazing when the Chinese version that's free beats it's competition.
Comment by Terrorscream at 25/01/2025 at 15:39 UTC
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Most of the things called AI these days are not even close to being artificial intelligence
Comment by SplendidPunkinButter at 25/01/2025 at 16:06 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
“A solution in search of a problem” describes generative AI better than anything
Comment by freakwent at 25/01/2025 at 08:40 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
AI is a total fuckup. It won't make money, it can't make money, and even if it did, the profit it creates will come with colossal second-order and external costs.
Any nation choosing to implement generative AI at scale will reduce not only the comfort, safety and happiness of their population, but also the total wealth generation of the nation.
Comment by vichan at 25/01/2025 at 09:04 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Negative effects of AI are being felt in pretty much every industry using it, but the folks feeling it are generally not the ones paying attention to spending. They are the folks looking at loss.
Comment by StarKCaitlin at 25/01/2025 at 17:43 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Developers are already stretched thin, and now they’re being told AI can do their jobs better, which just sounds like an excuse to cut more people. Hours are getting longer, the pressure’s there and it doesn’t seem like anyone’s really getting ahead, except maybe the execs who think this tech is a shortcut to success. Sad that talented people are losing jobs and struggling to find new ones
Comment by notproudortired at 25/01/2025 at 18:30 UTC
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OK, but bottom line: does AI make worse games? Developers don't like it, but how do players feel?
Look, my first couple of careers were gutted and now don't really exist because technologies replaced them. It happens. Game developers will eat sand if AI can make a product that customers like as much, or better, than human-made products.
Comment by Cheapskate-DM at 25/01/2025 at 02:45 UTC
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It's wild that stuff like Shadow of Mordor would be a great use case for AI. Solve some text-to-speech stuff or have a GLADoS approach and you can have a nemesis spitting machine-generated insults.
Comment by PMzyox at 25/01/2025 at 08:06 UTC
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How come it seems like I’m the only one who’s been able to use AI as a literal force multiplier for my job? I might be busy, but it’s extremely engaging. And I’m not working longer hours. I literally have Copilot acting as a scrum master for a sprint I don’t have time to organize myself. It’s becoming insanely obvious that the reason so many people are worried about losing their jobs to AI is because they do basically nothing and they know it.