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This is simply the truth. Has been a big part of many over-invested trends in the gaming industry over the years.

Not to mention that I can only assume a lot of people are feeling super gun shy after the huge surge in investments during COVID not having as many large returns as they expected or may have been promised.

Devem compartilhar investidores

Haha you’re right. I just say it to not sound too pretentious, but i guess that’s not needed hahaha

Makes sense I would imagine using GenAI in the concept art or hyper artistic stages would be the easiest to fake use. A lot of it just sounds like when you were told to show your working out in exams and you solved it first then made it up xD

I got fired for this so it's not just happening in games

a lot of what people consider to be 'entrepreneurship' and 'vision' its just being emotional about the hot new stuff, so if youre not, youre just not fit for growth and success

I swear my job has upper management using AI for the scheduling. We are constantly under staffed, with random gaps between shifts, like one department regularly has one person or no one scheduled for 2-3 hours.

yuuuuup

The simpler answer is it's integrated in every IDE now and devs are getting permission to use it from their leads.

That's not a conspiracy theory, that's how publicly traded companies work. It's fun because it means if someone uses slop they won't be able to hide it because they have to make sure their owners know they used the wallet inspector

I don't think this is a conspiracy at all. The dev space, not only games, is pretty much entirely owned (directly or not) by private equities that are betting big into the success of gen AI

I think this is one of those "pedo island is real" conspiracies 😜

I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

I mean it's definitely this. Investment in games disappeared, and investors are only interested in AI. For the time being one of the few ways to get investment money is to say you're using AI and won't be "left behind" when things "inevitably" lift off.

It has to work, or else

Yea. Less a theory and more the reality sadly :/

This aspect drives me mad. Just poisoning the well and making it 10x harder to explain game development to the general public.

And studios are closing left and right anyway, it’s a non-winnable-rigged-game

This is why i can't wait for this shit bubble to explode. Investors will move on to the next stupid thing that they think will gave them a quick gain.

Integrating AI also despecializes gaming fields and artists, which will ultimately drive down wages dramatically and change the nature of the gaming industry to employ mostly low waged general admin to work on games.

lmao thats the first thing I thought at the time as well

I love this. sprinkle a little magic on it, who can tell

Those beautiful buttons, though!

yeah these are folks who self-select into the critical thinking obliterator, i don't think its all that hard to get one by them

Absolutely respect the deployment of the Mel Brooks Gambit. God speed, friends.

they f*cking loved it, almost made me regret it

The old “fuckin’ pretend, they won’t know or check” trick, it has served generations of your forebears and will serve your grandchildren’s grandchildren as they develop the rendering pipeline for Final Fantasy 57.

lmfao. this rocks

This comment was like reading a play-by-play of what is happening at my company too! Devastatingly predictable, yet inevitable

the more disconnected people are from the daily operations, the more they fantasize about all the ways the hot new thing can revolutionize it all leadership always thinks its a 9-pregnant-ladies-1-month-baby game but workers knows exacly how and why none of it actually helps doing the actual work

That's why AI in everything. They are desperate to find an income source after dumping a trillion dollars into it.

For the most part execs and other decision makers are just this bad at their jobs, I’m afraid.

maybe down the line but it all starts with actually believing the hype until its too much of a financial and emotional sunk cost

Desperately trying to unsink that cost

Doesn't matter because at the end of the day investors need people to buy their AI games. I won't.

Wouldn't call it a conspiracy it is pretty clear, is very telling that most AAA that already have had shady practices are in on it , clearly because of investors

I saw some exec post about having done that at his company so microsoft can get off his ass about using Copilot. He invented numbers and productivity projections and they believed him.

The Mel Brooks approach

I had papers at doc's office asking for consent to use AI to record & summarize notes during appts. I didn't sign it. Text to speech isn't AI. I don't need AI to summarize doc's notes. As much as I pay in GD insurance, I expect the doc to listen & write 😠🙄 + what if ai notes summarize incorrectly?

I've assumed that top people in all of these companies must have their own investments in ai companies that they're desperate profitable.

Terry Pratchett nailed a great many things but it was Douglas Adams who identified the reality of the Shoe Event Horizon

NVIDIA needed to sell more graphic cards to they paid video games companies to go crazier with graphics, and now NVIDIA needs to sell more GPUs to AI data centers, so they need more data centers to be built. This conspiracy theory doesn't even need red markers and barely uses any paper.

I mean I wish it was just this but its also managers and such thinking it'll save time or just wanting to ride the next "cool" new tech and ignoring actual line devs.