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Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. (quanticfoundry.com)

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In a recent survey, we explored gamers’ attitudes towards the use of Gen AI in video games and whether those attitudes varied by demographics and gaming motivations. The overwhelmingly negative attitude stood out compared to other surveys we’ve run over the past decade.

In an optional survey (N=1,799) we ran from October through December 2025 alongside the Gamer Motivation Profile, we invited gamers to answer additional questions after they had looked at their profile results. Some of these questions were specifically about attitudes towards Gen AI in video games.

Overall, the attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games is very negative. 85% of respondents have a below-neutral attitude towards the use of Gen AI in video games, with a highly-skewed 63% who selected the most negative response option.

Such a highly-skewed negative response is rare in the many years we’ve conducted survey research among gamers. As a point of comparison, in 2024 Q2-Q4, we collected survey data on attitudes towards a variety of game features. The chart below shows the % negative (i.e., below neutral) responses for each mentioned feature. In that survey, 79% had a negative attitude towards blockchain-based games. This helps anchor where the attitude towards Gen AI currently sits. We’ll come back to the “AI-generated quests/dialogue” feature later in this blog post since we break down the specific AI use in another survey question.

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[–] lemmeLurk@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What helped me in my project was a RAG implementation. So instead of trying to have all the information in the prompt, which becomes inconsistent if it becomes too big (especially when working on local llm), I can have quite a big knowledge base in a RAG. Then when being promoted it's a two step process, first search the RAG for the best match in the knowledge base, then Feed that to the LLM to generate the answers. You could also store noteworthy stuff in the rag on the fly.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's very interesting and sounds cool - though might be above my paygrade.

What kind of delay does the double prompting incur? I can't imagine it would be nothing, especially for this use case of calling external LLMs via a proxy.

If anything a RAG for certain game related information might be a nice addition to the current system, rather than replacement. I think for a roleplay and storytelling focus there is a benefit of having a persistent character "life story" of long term memories fed into every prompt, creating character throughlines and potentially even character development.

[–] lemmeLurk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I haven't tried with API yet. With local one it's super quick though, it adds maybe a couple of seconds at most.

If you have a GPU and want to try it with local one there is a plugin for Godot and unity called "Nobody who" they have implemented the RAG approach out of the box with examples as well. So it wasn't something I came up with.