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Been thinking a lot about AI disclosure for games, since it's been a hot topic. Steam requires disclosure for player-facing content created with the help of AI tools, but says efficiency gains from AI development tools aren't the focus. Let's say I'm making a tree mesh for my game. Two obvious endpoints: • I manually model it in Blender. No disclosure. • I generate it using Tripo/Meshy. Disclosure. Now let's interpolate from t=0 to t=1: 1) I model the tree, but use a Codex-written exporter. 2) I model the tree, but use Codex-written UV, LOD and geometry optimization tools. 3) I model the tree, but write some scripts, with Codex help, to automate branch placement, leaf distribution, etc. 4) I automate more of the modelling until I've written a procedural tree generator. 5) I design and write my own procedural tree generator, with Codex helping debug and optimize it. 6) I design the procedural tree generator, but Codex writes the implementation. 7) I give Codex reference images, ask it to suggest improvements to my design, then implement those suggestions myself. 8) Same as above, but Codex implements the suggested improvements. 9) I give Codex reference images and ask it to design and implement the generator itself. 10) I use that generator, manually selecting and tweaking parameters until I'm happy with the trees. 11) Codex operates the generator and chooses the parameters, but I review and approve the results. 12) Codex operates the generator, chooses the parameters, and selects which trees ship, without my involvement. 13) I ask Codex to operate Blender directly and create the trees. 14) I generate the trees using Tripo/Meshy. Under a literal reading, at every point in that list, the player-facing content was "created with the help of AI tools". At what point did this cross from AI-assisted development into AI-generated art? Is this going to be the same for everyone?

All these game devs giving shit to Unreal for leaning into AI seem to be oblivious of what's going on.

Bioware has been a massive part of CDPR history. We befriended them when localizing and selling Baldur’s Gate games in Poland, Czech, and Slovakia. And later they were great help when lending us their engine for Witcher 1, sharing their wisdom and even giving us a spot at their booth at E3. I had a pleasure to visit them a few times in Edmonton and also host them in our Warsaw office. Very sad for the people affected, but also sad to see a legendary brand go down. Not a great day in the games industry.

Reminder: - EA cancelled the Single Player Dragon Age 4 in development from 2015-2017 - Pushed them to create a live service Dragon Age because of trend chasing. They considered multiplayer the future of gaming, "nobody plays single player games anymore" except then Jedi Fallen Order released with huge success and they pivoted again. - After 3 years of development on Live Service Age from 2018-2021, EA & Bioware decide to remove the Multiplayer component but instead of rebooting a second time they gave them 18 months to rip out all that live service work and have them make it a single player game AGAIN, at a significant disadvantage to meet expectations. - Six years of wasted development now, when a lot of the series veterans had been laid off or quit out of frustration with EA along with numerous management and staff changes. Among these names are David Gaider, Mike Laidlaw, and later before Veilguard's release Mary Kirby. Her departure was an abysmal sign for the future of DA before this next game had even released. - This resulted in the announcement of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in 2022, later renamed Veilguard which retained the scars of it's live service development when it released in 2024 and was never the true game Bioware would have given us if they hadn't been constantly fucked around. We could and should have had the intended Dragon Age 4 before 2020, instead it took almost a DECADE for the follow up. The worst things these companies do is trend chase something, with zero foresight on temporary trends. By the time you release that game public opinion has shifted. Rocksteady's Suicide Squad as a clear example of this too. Just let creative people make something they are passionate about and stop putting them in boxes. Let developers make something real by giving them time and resources to deliver something memorable with a clear goal, not a post mortem example like Anthem on how not to develop a game. EA has been fucking over Bioware basically since they acquired them. Issues with Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard aside as yes all three have their issues and you'll even have people going back to Mass Effect 3/DA2/Inquisition with issues as well; a lot of this comes from a long long period of EA pushing Bioware into a corner and then watching them be a punching bag for it. It also comes from internal schisms within Bioware where there was a strange Mass Effect vs Dragon Age rift and David Gaider said they may as well have been two different studios with how the culture was different, plus the writers getting fucked over at every turn. People taking the lowest hanging fruit possible and are gonna just say it was Veilguard, it was Anthem, it was Andromeda etc that sealed their fate when in actual reality it was a long list of issues going back 15+ years that led to the issues within those games in the first place.

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lol I get to play it everyday 👀

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

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