"An interview from earlier this year featuring Level-5 CEO and president Akihiro Hino talking positively about AI and claiming the tech is writing 80 percent or more of the studio’s code these days recently went viral online. And now Hino has responded, denying that the studio behind the Professor Layton and Ni no Kuni games has fully shifted to AI programming, but also defending generative AI and claiming it will lead to “greater growth” in the industry."
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A lot of people in gaming (and probably creative industries more generally), are extremely hostile to the use of AI.
There was a Gamespot article where the writer was apologizing for liking Arc Raiders, since some of its voice acting was done using AI.
Personally, I think this is peak Broken Windows fallacy. So what if they used AI to generate some voice lines? They still hired real voice actors to create the training data that they used. By not using the real voices for every single line, it frees up the voice actors to do other, more valuable work, and it allows them to create a much richer variety of voiced lines.
A lot of things to dislike about AI, but I think the hostility is a bit overboard if someone has to apologize for liking something that used AI in its production process.
@ek because I know he's an Arc Raiders fan