I don't agree at all, the hype was evident, sure, but the procedural generation was largely the reason people didn't like the game. You stated that procedural generation isn't hated, but 'botching' the usage of it at release is the piece that irrelevant. The people hated it because of the, admittably bad, procedural generation.

> How the fuck would I boycott a brand for being owned by Nestle *before I find out that it's owned by Nestle?* Consumer research, look up the brands you don't know before you buy them, the corps aren't generally out here running shell companies to hide relationships. Im not being snide and I don't care about the rest of the argument with OP, this is the literal answer to that one question, that's all.

The translation flub is the only part that mattered here. The Alters was getting a ton of praise and good press for its story, characters, mocap, VA, mechanics, visuals, you name it. Finding out that someone used GPT for some glorified lorem ipsum to paste on a random background object doesn't change the quality one iota. The art team for this game was paid and hired and they did a phenomenal job with the game, but one of those paid artists took a shortcut for some assets. It's not a "the ayy eye is letting corpo CEOs skip out on paying real human artists!!!" situation here. Do you know what else paid artists / game studios do other than pay a human to create an asset from scratch? They buy models and textures on the Unreal/etc asset store. The same exact boulder model is present in everything from ffviiR to Clair Obscur to Death Stranding, because it comes free with the engine and is "good enough" just like an AI generated rock texture would be. However, using machine translation without even a *proofreading pass* is hilarious. Using a conversational model for translation is double hilarious. Surely purpose-built translation tools exist and are more efficient than "asking" chatGPT to "translate this line into Brazilian Portuguese".

The guy who used ai to make some technobabble lipsum for an asset was an artist hired by the company. You can see a huge list of the artists that worked on The Alters in the credits. They all got paid. This artist would take home the same wage for typing "gshsjajfkfksiwn" in that asset, or copy and pasting some numbers that were in a readout from a space telescope, or literally using lorem ipsum. If we're really micromanaging every art shortcut as "potential pay to hire *more* artists" now, why not start counting how many rock/plant/sky/water textures and models in The Alters (or FF7 Rebirth, or literally any UE5 game) are pre-baked assets included with the UE5 license? Game devs *actually* use those instead of billable hours / salaried hires.

I love seeing these outside views from folks who aren't developers Gen AI is pretty well integrated into development pipelines at this point. In ways that are subtle and quite useful. Especially autocomplete as you write code, and boiler plate autofill. These used genai, are subtle and not necessarily intrusive, and are pretty widely integrated across the development ecosystem. Like everything the poison makes the dose. The larger the dose of genai the more poison you are introducing into your work.

It's already in use responsibly. And irresponsibly. Turns out that you can't really argue the slope of responsibility when that's an individual choice of how someone uses a tool.

Alright, probably why