Bad title, he's not an epic CEO at all.

Sweeney is not very smart, is he?

Steam is my favourite multi-billion dollar monopoly 😌

No, it fucking won't, Tim Sweeney. Go jump off the OG Fortnite BR map so I can default dance on you while you get sent back to the lobby.

Depends on how it's used.

Right now it's used to replace skilled workers, be them artists, actors, or programmers.

I can certainly think of a few good uses for AI in games, but to a Corpo CEO "good use" = wider profit margins at the cost of humanity. And so we need to be informed about such things when we spend money on something that is by all rights an artform.

I think it should be more descriptive.

using gpt as a stack overflow replacement should be fine or autocomplete for a simple for-loop

using generative npcs, dialog, voice is another thing entirely

As a CEO you can decide whether to piss off on what your potential consumers demand and don't. Obviously, there's a reason why the EGS is in the shitty place it is and Steam isn't. EGS focuses on developers and publishers even when it means pissing on consumers. Steam might have spearled modern DRM "subscription"-based marketplaces, but they've also continued to cater to consumer demands even when it opposed their interests and they could have chosen to ignore them anyway.

He is funded by tencent. Of course he will push ai.

I've said this before that typically people don't know what they are talking about AI, but I don't expect this from people who SHOULD know what AI is.

There could be technologies that AI can assist with, hell I'm not a game dev but I assume even back in the day, devs used tricks and technologies that today could be considered as AI

However AI as in it will write you code, generate you a game and write you a story? Hell no.

Lucky for them, I won't buy any new games. Too many fantastic older games to play that they didn't cheat and cut corners to produce.

there should be a law that says all CEOs must shut the fuck up always and forever

I like AI, and see no issue with disclosing how it is applied. People who are pro-AI would like to further hone their craft, by understanding what workflows and issues are involved. Anti-AI folk can simply avoid what they dislike. Either way, it is win-win.

Yes but we all know that Tim is a bit of an idiot.

We've all seen AI made games, they are awful. Terrible optimisation (often not optimised at all), programming mistakes that first year junior wouldn't make, glitchy looking art and basic gameplay because AI cannot be original.

Yeah I'm sure they're really going to take off.

Just go ahead and admit you can't sell games anymore sweeney.

And they'll become cheaper as they undoubtedly sack their talent, right?

I think if I buy a game under the pretext of it being entirely "man-made", in 2026. If it then turns out to have been partially AI produced in 2030, I should have the right to earn a refund, even if I 100% it.

Epic fail