And no doubt this demoralized the devs massively. All while the out of touch rich abolish skill in order to chase after short term profits.

I'm convinced at this point that the rich aren't really able to be seen as human. They lack empathy and lack in the ability to understand anything beyond what makes them loads of money. They're a personification of greed, and take up oxygen while robbing our world of everything that's good. In fictional stories, usually robots or aliens see humanity as a whole as nothing more than a cancer on the earth, but I honestly don't think that's the case. It only seems like it because CEOs and leaders of world governments are corrupt monsters devoid of humanity. They are the cancer.

Epic is seriously the worst company in gaming (tied with EA).

@VoidofLight There is no such thing as a world government and not all national leaders are as ghoulishly evil as Trump and Putin.

Good that epic had no games. No real loss. Hope the CEO will be the last on the sinking ship

Right when I thought I couldn't like Epic any less...

This is just gross stuff through and through. And the reassurance about the AI being managed and guided by humans, on top of not changing the fact that the end result is slop, is undoubtedly not going to last. Just earlier this year, they laid off 20% of their workforce to cut costs, and if they're trying to develop games with just AI, you can be sure that won't be the end of it.

Gonna use the Earth guzzling plagiarism tools to make more multiverse Disney slop? The hardest of passes. Epic won't see a cent of my money ever again.

Well that's a "Don't Buy" statement if I ever heard one.

Question is if Epic Games meant for this information to be put out to begin with. I would imagine this is something they would try to cover up and apologize for when people caught on rather than them be upfront about it. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Unless this is them going, "We made this game primarily with A.I, so when it makes us a ton of money, that'll be all the proof we need to do it like this going forward."

@asdfghjklz Not saying there's a world government. Just saying that government leaders as a whole are prone to abusing power or hurting others in pursuit of their own benefit. Not all world leaders are going to be like Trump or Putin, sure- but there's a good chunk of rotten individuals who are leading countries. Some are far worse, and others at most are just corrupt. Either way, a good chunk of them don't actually care about the citizens that live underneath them. It's very rare to find a country with a government that's actually made for the people in mind.

Looking forward to a lot of positive comments about this here!

Not surprised this is happening. I don’t want even more people to lose their jobs, but I hope this ends up being a disaster that the games industry can dissect as a case study against AI in games.

Listen, as much as I'm generally neutral, leaning towards cautiously positive towards AI, just basically saying "***** it, use AI to finish the last of this game" doesn't sit well with me

As a developer who frequently uses copilot, it would mildly annoy me if my company asked me to just let the agent build the code. Many times it’s easier/quicker to write things out than to have the agent do it. In addition to that, if you let the agent go to crazy you end up with a hearty code base that is difficult to review, test and maintain.

Any game created solely by AI can die in a fire. Content solely for the sake of content.

I do not want to be part of the first episode of ‘black mirror’ thank you very much. Living inside a box. Cycling to create some energy with which I can watch spoonfed commercials.

I have a little self esteem left.

@mattitudemf I was thinking that too. Honestly wondering if this strategy will even work

Sounds like a decision that came from the business guys at the top, not something that a chief of engineering or something would say

Someone please tell me clearly where your line is with using AI as a tool to assist while having a human oversee and guide it. Be specific. And reasonable.

Tim Sweeney is the most self-important, prideful high ground CEO I ever seen in my life. He thinks everything he does is through a higher understanding of how the world works instead of just his ego inflating his own intelligence and worth in the world.

@asdfghjklz Psyop. We all saw the Epstein files. Every government is fake. It is all fake. It is all theatre. Just a bunch of purposefully provoked hostilities amongst different groups to create an illusion of a power shift every cycle in every nation, yet all of the money gets funneled to the same places.

The future…. So bleak and soulless. Lifeless, even.
There are people out there saying they can’t imagine living without AI or that we need AI to live. That’s honestly a mental illness way of thinking.