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"The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by Salamence@mander.xyz to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8882542

It's a different story for the more established studios with an existing following and previous titles. Game Oracle found that the use of AI by these studios resulted in a significant 40% to 60% drop in sales.

That's a huge difference. AI stigma seems to hit competent developers with a lot to lose the hardest, and I'm not sure that game studios are ready to accept it.

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[+] CriticalResist@lemmy.ml -8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

if you need steam to tell you a game has AI in it then that means you couldn't have any way of figuring it out without the disclaimer. If you can't determine, without the disclaimer, whether a game contains AI then there's nothing to complain about and you fall back to the age old "do I enjoy this game? yes/no" metric. Backwards policy by Steam to cover their ass.

I feel that disclaimers like "this game contains gambling mechanics. It is a casino." would be way more important and actually helpful. But no, better to admonish a game priced $2.99 that only sold 10 copies for using AI to generate concepts in the early stages of the game.

Or if you don't want to take the risk of playing "AI slop" just pirate your games like a grownup.

[–] Fribbtastic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I don't really agree with that.

You also wouldn't really know that a coat was made of ethically sourced pelts or if it was made from animals in abhorrent and cruel conditions. But knowing that could shift your opinion of buying that coat, simply because you wouldn't want to support the practice of abusing and the cruel treatment of Animals.

"AI" is something that a lot of people are not OK with. Disclosing that something contains AI is a good thing because it increases transparency, and a person could determine that they don't want to support its usage.

I also think that, no, "AI" isn't as easily distinguishable anymore as you might think, at least not generally. Heck, I am still sometimes getting the "ignore all previous instructions" comments because I like to explain things in more detail, which ends up in walls of text (because regurgitating solutions doesn't really help). What you clearly be able to distinguish as "made by AI" are the poor examples, the "slop".