A couple of weeks after arguing that generative AI should not be considered in video game reviewsEpic CEO Tim Sweeney is calling on Steam and digital storefronts to stop requiring generative AI disclosure altogether.
In general terms, Sweeney's argument is that all video games will use generative AI tools at some stage, so you and I might as well stop hearing about it. He believes that labeling things as created using generative artificial intelligence is only necessary when there is a formal need to prove legal authorship or to help buyers understand whether they have rights to a piece of digital art. There's no point in letting regular old video game players learn these things. This will only frustrate us and perhaps reduce our desire to play generative AI video games, e.g. Fortnite.
Okay, I'm expanding on the material a little. Here's a real quote from Sweeney, via James Radar by using Percy Gamer through the endless crocodile march of progress.
“The AI tag is relevant for art exhibitions to reveal attribution, as well as for digital content licensing markets where buyers need to understand the rights situation,” Sweeney wrote on the site. Zitterresponding to a user who called on Steam and other digital stores to remove the “Generation AI” label. “This doesn't make sense for game stores, where AI will be involved in almost all future production.”
I have already ranted for a long time These pages outline the relationship between the trillion-dollar generative artificial intelligence industry and layoffs, creative theft, soaring energy consumption, and general misinformation. Sweeney mentions a couple of these bogeymen in his tweet about rights: Many of the larger, more famous generative AIs are created by processing vast amounts of human art and discourse without consent, even though you can debate whether they actually steal someone's intellectual property.
However, I wonder if what infuriates me the most is the fact that some tycoon smugly tells me that a certain state of affairs will inevitably happen, especially when he benefits as an AI advocate, and especially when he and his fellow visionaries at Epic catastrophically screwed up your fortune telling in recent history.
As with previous comments about genAI in video game reviews, the logic here is clearly self-serving. Sweeney advises you not to ask how the sausage was made, because he has a whole bunch of them on Barbie. By the way, it is assumed that About 99% of the US livestock population in 2022 was raised on factory farmsbut you don't have to worry about it when you're deciding whether to buy a hot dog.
I agree that Steam's generative AI policy needs to change as most disclosures so vague that they are fundamentally uselesswithout revealing the precise selection of genAI tools, the materials from which they derive their probabilistic results, or exactly when, where, or how they were used in development.
Steam Disclosure for Arc Raidersfor example, explains that “during the development process, we can use procedural and AI-based tools to help create content. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and self-expression of our own development team.” It took proper interview Find out with the developers that the game uses text-to-speech tools for the voice barks and machine learning routines to animate the arachnid robots. You may not be concerned about these generative AI applications, but you can't make this choice if you don't know about it.
