Co-founder of No More Robots, Mike Rose deplores the proliferation of AI in the world of video games, which he considers to be doomed by human laziness.
In recent years, debates related toGenerative AI have continued to gain more and more momentum within our society, and in particular the video game industry. Because if many players are still fiercely opposed to its use, more and more studios, for their part, are giving in to the call of AI, at least as a support tool. Technologies like DLSS 5who recently controversialcan attest to this. For Mike Rose, co-founder of the company No More Robots, however, this amounts to opening Pandora’s box.
A publisher denounces the use of AI in video games
During an interview conducted by GamesRadar+, this independent British publisher did not mince his words to express all the bad things he thinks about generative AI. “From the publishers’ point of view in particular, this is extremely annoying” he declared. “If we already found the number of games launched on Steam crazy before, it’s simply impossible today. At the last Next Fest, it seemed like about a third of the demos featured either AI-generated visuals or AI-generated content »deplores Rose in particular.
An observation that he is far from being the only one to make, since John Buckley, editing and publication director at Pocketpair, pointed out exactly the same thing a few weeks earlier. And for the co-founder of No More Robots, this inevitably becomes a problem when platforms like Steam find themselves drowned in thousands of new AI-designed games, among which it becomes increasingly difficult to sort. “It makes me nauseous to look at AI-generated art”asserts Rose on this subject.
For him, Pandora’s box was opened
And the situation seems all the more alarming to him since he does not hesitate to compare the insertion of AI in video games to the opening of Pandora’s box, that is to say as something with which it is now impossible to go back. “It will probably never disappear again” he tells GamesRadar+. “People can now create things by asking an AI to do them for them. And you know, the problem is that humans are super lazy. And I don’t mean that as an insult! We are, that’s all”.
“In fact, for many people, if given the choice between ‘spend a lot of time and money creating something cool’, and ‘enter a few instructions into an AI program to have the result ready in the blink of an eye’, the general public will opt for the latter option.” he assures with a certain fatalism. “And that’s the problem: it doesn’t matter what you think. It doesn’t matter that some of us don’t like generative AI. It will be used from now on, and more and more. As the young people say: video games are ruined”.
Despite everything, hope remains
Fortunately for Rose, despite the proliferation of AI within the industry, many players still pay attention to this detail in their games, and do not hesitate to raise the shields whenever the opportunity presents itself. The reception reserved for the announcement of DLSS 5 by NVIDIA probably remains the best example, players not having hesitated to denounce this technology and mock her on social networks. Perhaps video games are not yet totally condemned by AI after all?
Source : GamesRadar+
