"Use of generative AI among game developers has declined after rising sharply in 2025, according to new data from the Game Developer Collective and Omdia. The survey shows 29% of developers reported using generative AI tools in early 2026, compared with 36% during the same period in 2025."

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[–] 10 points 8 months ago* (10 children)

If people put slop in their games; ANY type of slop; I'm gonna assume the whole thing was done with that little care. If a novel has a AI cover i am gonna assume the text is AI spam as well. Simple and easy. ;) If people wants to make mindless trash i hope it sells like trash.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Literal judging a book by its cover mention.

    But I do agree that generative software proliferation can certainly lead to a flood of low-quality trash.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago

    Off topic, but I read books, and I can tell publishers leverage " judging a book by its cover" extremely well, because it is true, otherwise I couldn't tell an academic edition or a general edition. A book with an AI cover is, in general, a bad idea, and it conveys low quality to the reader. Some open source books use AI to format an epub file; some use text recognition without professional formatting, and it is a disaster to read. You are better off getting an old pdf edition or paying a premium for a publisher's modernised version.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    The main difference between Ai and the .com bubble is that AI has it's enshitification built in. It's 2026; Tech companies are in unison degrading their products and engaging in anti-consumer practices that would not have happened in the .com era. Generative Ai tools will follow a regular tech "disruption cycle." it will be sold at a discount to game devs as a miracle tool and when they are dumb enough to de-skill the tech corpo oligarchs will raise the prices 500% and give the individual user a more neutered product compared to their own monopolies.

    And with that aside what a waste of my life to throw away on the creative output of a machine. Especially with so many great human-made games out there. If every game in the future is made by a fucking AI, then I can just sit back and enjoy the human made backlog. Or search for communities of humans who still enjoy creating.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    In my eyes the AI bubble is an attempt of monopolization of all white collar industries by a the tech oligarch degenerates. Things will get increasingly worse if we let them.

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