Study suggests AI is hurting video game sales

[Redaktion]

AI is no longer some distant future topic in game development. But on Steam, even disclosing its use could become a problem for many studios. An analysis by Game Oracle shows that games with disclosed AI use receive significantly fewer reviews than comparable titles without an AI disclosure. The study is now sparking plenty of discussion on Reddit.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Study-suggests-AI-is-hurting-video-game-sales.1328725.0.html

[indyp]

I surmise within 5 years Steam will drop this label since the vast majority of games will include "AI" assets. People will stop freaking out about it and bite the bullet.

[AI is here to stay]

indyp, this is basically what I wanted to say, too.

Technology does not revert backwards and the skin company now - Valve - won't stop it. AI is here to stay, whether people like it, or not. Millions are already using it, since at least like 2 years (GPT-4 was released in March 14, 2023). Now, more and more people and companies are moving to hosting open-weight LLMs locally for privacy, amongst others reasons. On artificialanalysis.ai you can see how open-weight LLM models are catching up to the proprietary ones. More about local LLM models hosting here: reddit.com/r/localllama.

In the worst case, game companies simply wont disclose AI usage. In the past, many jobs were replaced by technology.

Just let people decide if they like the game at its price.

[banAI]

you both are so wrong. look how many people are anti-ai online and this study proves it. AI steals from artists and is completely reliant on the work of others while being wrong 50% of the time and needs data centers which are being canceled and shut down in communities left and right because how destructive they are to the local environment and to our tax funds. I don't doubt that if companies keep trying to force ai slop onto us any harder, large scale riots will ensue and I can bet that ai, and its infrastructure, won't survive that fight. it should be banned in its entirety.