I mean they mostly used it for textures, right? Those are often generated from a combination of noise and photography, it's not like they were building the game out of lego bricks of other people's art. I don't see how it's significantly different than sampling in music, it's just some background detail to enhance the message of the art. Obviously modern AI is a nightmare machine that cannot be justified, but I could imagine valid artistic uses for the hypothetical AI you described.

I believe you that genAI is being used for code suggestions, but I wouldn’t call it a genius. This is anecdotal but over the last couple of years I’ve noticed Visual Studio’s autocomplete went from suggesting exactly what I wanted more often than not to just giving me hot garbage today. Like even when I’m 3-4 lines in to a very obvious repeating pattern it’ll suggest some nonsense variation on it that’s completely useless. Or just straight making up variable and function names that don’t exist, or suggesting inputs to function calls that don’t match the signature. Really basic stuff that any kind of rules-based system should have no problem with.

I really hope their next game smashes it too after this statement. Has potential to pave the way for the rest of the industry.

IDEs use LSP dumbass go setup neovim.

VSCode autocomplete is literal AI now, they don’t have intellisense Others will follow, making “no AI” software really difficult to prove

I'm not surprised they ultimately felt like GenAI isn't useful to what they're trying to do. Game dev has known about this type of generation for a while now (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_synthesis and the sources linked at the bottom) and it takes a lot of human effort to curate both the training data and the model weights to end up with anything that feels new _and_ meaningful. If I shuffle a deck of 52 cards, there is [a high chance](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/671/when-you-randomly-shuffle-a-deck-of-cards-what-is-the-probability-that-it-is-a) of obtaining a deck order that has never occurred before in human history. Big whoop. GenAI is closer to [sexy dice](https://www.scribd.com/document/605580945/Sexy-Dice-Game-Printables) anyways - the "intelligent work" was making sure the dice faces always make sense when put together and you don't end up rolling "blow suck" or "lips thigh". It's very impressive that we're able to scale this type of apparatus up to plausibly generate meaningful paragraphs, conversations, and programs. It's ridiculous what it cost us to get it this far, and just like sexy dice and card shuffling I fail to see it as capable of replacing human thought or ingenuity, let alone expressing what's "in my head". Not until we can bolt it onto a body that can feel pain and hunger and joy, and we can already make human babies much more efficiently than what it takes to train an LLM from scratch (and _they_ have personhood and thus rights in most societies around the world). Even the people worried about "AI self-improving" to the point it "escapes our control" don't seem to be able to demonstrate that today's AI can do much more than slow us down in the long run; [this study] (https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/) was published over 5 months ago, and they don't seem to have found much [since then](https://metr.org/research/).

You can literally customize the vscode intellisense right now...

"Ai" does not exist. There is no such thing. It does not exist at presence. Full stop. Genetic algorithms and complex algorithms are neat. They're useful tools. They're not "ai", they're algorithms. It's fine. Large X models and diffusion models are bullshit machines. They were invented as bullshit machines. They are scams. Their evangelists are scammers. They do not 'generate' except in the way aspark gap jammer 'generates'. They're noise machines. You do not know what the fuck you're talking about. You are a cultist. Go back to sexting with ELIZA.

I wouldn't call it a genius either, it's just all over the place. Sometimes it's scary good and predicts your next move, most of the time it's just okay, sometimes it's annoyingly bad

When you sample in music, you get the original artist's permission or you get fucking sued. If the AI used were trained on a licensed library catalogue, then sure. Media companies historically would buy sample licenses to use for their sound effects in movies, video games, etc. so AI could essentially just do that, but put the encyclopedia of samples in a blender of training to modulate that shit to make something somewhat "new" to be used. Original artists get royalties, users get something customized without having to hire sounds engineers to make those adjustments, and consumers get good products.

Right now, but we can all see where it’s heading Then you need to make sure 200 devs disable all AI features or get disqualified from awards with “no AI” clauses

Yeah, that's basically what I was trying to imagine. It's absolutely not what contemporary AI is, but it's closer to how I think the technology should be used.

Oh, someone did read a Wikipedia article! No, it was not "appeal to popularity," it was meant to show that you'd be hard to find a product where at least small part wasn't generated with AI, meaning singling this company out because they admitted it is bullshit.

Conflating multiple things together, are we? But hey, everyone who doesn't share your exact world view on all issues is a Nazi!

I mean, one of us is "defending" use of a technology that helps people, the other is publicly bashing their sister, implying she's stupid (which might or might not be true, not the point). I'll leave the conclusion to other readers, I have no more to say to a person like you.

I generally don't write code to get an award, it's just a tool to implement a business requirement. Sure, the committee can decide that absolutely no AI can be used, doesn't mean I can't call it out as stupid because I disagree with it. They're right to do that and I can not like it. It's not like I'm sending death threats or anything, I just stated my opinion. I wouldn't draw the line at all. If you just tell AI "give me a texture for this and that" it will look like shit most of the time. You either have to be lucky or edit it anyway. Let alone if you want consistency across multiple textures/models/whatever. So, if the end result is good, I don't particularly care. I never claimed my answer is the One True Answer and I obviously think my answer is correct as does everyone else who has an opinion. And I'm pretty sure the consensus can only be one of two things: either the AI companies crash because it's financially unsustainable to provide the services or every game company uses it to generate various amounts of code/models/textures etc. I don't think having AI be disqualified is the most efficient answer at all, nor do I think it's an efficiency issue at all. The companies don't care about that. They pay analysts to tell them which of these decisions will bring them more money. For now the analysts decided to play it safe and disqualify it. One day one young analyst with something to prove will say "well, everyone's disqualifying it, why don't we try a different way" and slowly everyone's gonna allow it. IMO, anyway.

I mean I guess I can get how you think that's what I said? I'm more so just commenting on the fact that "everyone" is like a majority dumbasses.

More-so I'm concerned for my sister, but yes, I did "publicly" bash her. On lemmy. Lol. The absurdity of your moral outrage is astounding. My sister is not above criticism because I care about her. But don't worry, you didn't raise any good points and you failed to deflect away from my poignant anecdote. The readers will indeed side against you, because you have failed to produce a sound argument.

*taps sign* Tell me the fucking lie if you can.

Your attempt to move the goalpost is almost as weak as that ad hominem. Be better.