The glory days of Epic Games is long gone and Tim Sweeney is a god damn moron.
He doesn’t sound very epic to me.
Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production
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Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Weird. The guy that has ties with tencent is saying we should not call out ai. Chinese owned tencent would never push out pure ai crap. Or try to push it on their store front.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Company leadership anywhere these days make me sick with the way they try to spin AI like it’s the second fucking coming of Christ when their true intentions are far more insidious.
sakuraba@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Tencent? The same company that commissioned an AI generated video for League of Legends Wild Rift 3rd anniversary and it was so bad Riot had to come out and say they didn’t make at it?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nothing epic about the guy or his company.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Epic fail.
sakuraba@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
If Tim has no haters I’m dead
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
These suits are all out of touch morons
Eh_I@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know how long it’s been since I even bothered claiming the free game of the week. Like a year.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I got a few epic games to be claimed on epic store. I just don’t. I don’t have an account and I also do not have a will to make one. Nothing of value is there anyway.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My Steam backlog is 600+ games deep so I don’t have to swim in that Epic shit. Sweeney can suck a nut.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
And i bet you don’t even touch the free game you claimed because Epic launcher take forever to launch.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve never even installed the Epic Lawnchair. I just use Heroic, which works very well.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nobody wants to give their computer AIDS for a free game.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’d rather buy a game on Steam than get it for free from Epic. Seriously.
I claimed the first few games and their launcher was shit. Now, to be fair, Steam wasn’t exactly a pinnacle of achievement when it first came out, either, but it’s been refined and honed to a razor. Epic is just “let’s throw shit at the wall and see what happens”, with no coherent strategy or marketing beyond “we’re not Steam!”. Their client, as I understand it, is still shit, and their CEO is a jackass. Haven’t had it installed in years now. Meanwhile, I have a backlog on Steam of like 1000 games.
Why would I ever use Epic? It has no value.
And yes, that goes for games sold on Steam with the “have to use Origin” bullshit, too. I’m not launching Steam to then launch Origin. This is not Inception. Let me play my damn game and stay out of it. Ya know?
jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
How do I filter “tim sweeney”?
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 23 hours ago
Thank God the consumer can ignore it if they wish.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 1 day ago
I think a lot of people might clutch their proverbial pearls when they find out that AI has been involved with game development for years now.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Every person in every industry in a rush to replace the work of creative people with output from machine learning models can fuck right off.
Every consumer who is content with products made by such people can also fuck right off.
Mika@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Tbf AI tag should be about AI-generated assets. Cause there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI, and that’s what the whole dev industry do now.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI
This opinion is contradicted by basically everyone who has attempted to use models to generate useful code which must interface with existing codebases. There are always quality issues, it must always be reviewed for functional errors, it rarely interoperates with existing code correctly, and it might just delete your production database no matter how careful you try to be.
Mika@piefed.ca 1 day ago
So don’t accept code that is shit. Have decent PR process. Accountability is still on human.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel like I get where he’s coming from, but I can see the revulsion.
I picture someone asking their AI to write a rules engine for a gamemode and getting masses of duplicative, horrific code; but in my own work, my company has encouraged an assistive tool, and once it has an idea of what I’m trying to do, it will offer autocomplete options that are pretty spot on.
Still, I very much agree it’s hard to sort the difference and in untrained hands can definitely lead to unmaintainable code slop. Everything needs to get reviewed by knowledgeable human eyes before running.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Cause there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI,
Hahahahahahahaha
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, the issue with “AI” is thinking that it’s able to make anything production ready, be it art, code or dialog.
I do believe that LLMs have lots of great applications in a game pipeline, things like placeholders and copilot for small snippets work great, but if you think that anything that an LLM produces is production ready and you don’t need a professional to look at it and redo it (because that’s usually easier than fixing the mistakes) you’re simply out of touch with reality.
Mika@piefed.ca 23 hours ago
Are you even reading what I say? You are supposed to have a professional approving generated stuff.
But it’s still AI-generated, it doesn’t become less AI-generated because a human that knows shit abot the subject approved it.
dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The killer app is language processing and if a localization contractor isn’t using an LLM to quickly check for style errors and inconsistencies, they’re just making it hard for them for no good reason.
sparkles@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I don’t care if it is seamless…I want to play games and enjoy art made by human brains. Because to me it’s the closest we can get to being in someone else’s experience of a thing. And yeah we still go through our own filter but this game..or song or painting is someone else’s brain creating and I’m just walking through their vision of the world.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Anyway, here’s a userscript/browser addon to make Steam’s AI warnings into a popup: github.com/seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam