Even if that did happen, it wouldn't defeat the point of the disclosures at all. In fact, people will appreciate it all the more if a game is made without any AI involvement and it will become a selling point.
Plus, shouldn’t he want that information to be front and center anyway if he actually thinks it’s a good thing?
He, like the that Microsoft suit, has just enough awareness to realize how AI is being thought of by the general public, and knows it would affect his bottom line. Which is really all he cares about.
I think it would be helpful to know how AI is used.
It already is becoming a positive marketing point!
I'm glad that Tim Sweeny and its Epig Games Store is not the market leader.
lol I just found my 7 year old post on Reddit (when Reddit was cool) of a Epig Games logo creation: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/bvw5ru/epig_games/

But pigs are cute :(
Why associate them with such a shit company?
Tim Fashy again demonstrates why Steam is as successful as it is without a monopoly.
Also, another reason to never, ever do anything to do with epic, proven by the Chief Enslavement Officer itself.
PC gamers (sample size: at least 1) say they struggle to think of anything valuable that Tim Sweeney has ever said.
Up that sample size to 2 baybee
Information good. Hiding information bad. Nefarious intentions.
Sugars and additives are in nearly all foods, maybe we should stop asking manufacturers to disclose it on the ingredients list.
If most games will contain AI content, then an "AI-free" badge couldn't be more important. He must understand that that statement is a complete logical fallacy, right?
It's Tim Sweeney, he doesn't understand where the sun goes at night.
We're seeing the rise of push back against AI gen stuff... https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/827650/indie-developers-gen-ai-nexon-arc-raiders
Doubling down on the glazing of the ai bubble is pretty on brand for him. In before "tim sues steam for spurious claims against ai" or some other bullshit.
Sidenote: IsThereAnyDeal.com has the steam ai declarations as part of the quick reference section on game pages now. https://mastodon.social/@isthereanydeal/115606686918493913
If it's available in "nearly all" development then you can switch the tag to say "no AI" and then I can continue discovering and buying games that don't have that BS.
But we all know, as does Sweeney, that that's a lie. And also that I wouldn't shop for games on Epic Store anyway, for reasons just like this.
Tim continues to not 'read the room'
On the wrong side of nearly everything. Disappointing, he was a gaming pioneer. Now just a petty greedy corpo.
Then put the disclaimer in all games? So what, not like they're limited quantity
Yes, like we don't have Handmade tags in products...
I dont know about the future, but a "No AI-Art" tag, makes sense to me.
This is just one of many examples on why epic is inferior
And CEOs will be the easiest position to replace with AI. Can't wait for the share holders to figure that out.
yea that's just playing on semantics. Of course machine learning will keep assisting many different workflows, thank you Tim.
Go ahead with your ML-assisted procedural animations, your ML-enhanced denoising, your ML-powered stochastic mesh pruning.
What people don't want is generated visuals/music that try and pass off as art. I'd love to summon debility to explain that the ruling class doesn't get it, but they do -it's a convenient way for them to save on human labor that is also... just too tempting to use for replacing art as well.
And wonder why Steam is succeeded but Epic is an AI slop wasteland
And people wonder why Epic games has the smallest market share of all the game stores
Yeah, I can't imagine why people aren't flocking to the Epic Store. Must be Valves fault.
They make sense because we don't want your AI shit Sweeney
Tim: Valve doesn't understand the market. AI is going to lead gaming industry.
Also Tim: VALVE IS A MONOPOLY AND SHOULD SEIZE TO EXIST.
Never buy another Epic game again, understood!
Then some clueless person complains that Steam dominates the market. When Epic is constantly shooting their foot.
People like to make informed decisions and those labels help. In proper countries even beer have content labels to say if there is rice or corn with the barley.
"Crypto/NFT disclosures make no sense, because all games will become "Play to Earn" and have NFT objects where you can transfer your Mario hat to COD 2028."
I am being glib, Sweeney probably has a point, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't take a critical look at his intentions.
Using AI for checking a code, and then double checking it yourself is different than some waste of sperm dictating prompts to AI, and telling his friends at parties while high on ketamine adderol and coke "this is going to be the next Morrowind x Cyberpunk x Mario Brother Kart Theft Auto" is the AI badge Valve is talking about.
These guys live in a bubble, huffing each others’ farts
It is useful to know what games i want to avoid and boycott.
More info = good.
It being ubiquitous does not mean it makes no sense. They can still say how and to what extent gen AI was used.
Epic CEO [Tim Sweeney] is an idiot
Tim Sweeny doesn't understand the very people he wants to have give him money. Like, at all.
nahh men. This is why you (Epic) are giving away games every week for free. Nobody likes you
I guess I won't be buying nearly all games.
Super effective slop filter you say? Sign me the fuck up!
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