CHOAM Nomsky 💭: Excellent, and expected. The Mario Bros. games in particular are so painstakingly hand-crafted. You can’t get anywhere close to that with “AI” and its compulsory crowdsourcing

Excellent, and expected. The Mario Bros. games in particular are so painstakingly hand-crafted. You can’t get anywhere close to that with “AI” and its compulsory crowdsourcing

i cannot stress how relieving it is to see the president of a major creative tech company like nintendo voice concerns about generative ai and say they’re not interested www.tweaktown.com/news/99109/n...

Nintendo won't use generative AI in its first-party gameswww.tweaktown.com Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has revealed that the company currently has no plans to use generative AI in its games due to IP rights concerns.

AI in video games would just create those generative games where it’s endless levels of remixed elements that get boring and feel pointless. A list of the best games of all time are generally things with very specific choices being made.

The thing is, there are enough procedural aesthetics in game design that you can distinguish between Good and Bad algorithmic level generation, or at least have non-stupid arguments about it. But it’s the opposite of Nintendo’s particular aesthetic, which is all about the hand-crafted and bespoke.

As an analogy, if Brian Eno said his next album of songs was going to have AI-generated instruments, I’d at least be cautiously optimistic; if Randy Newman did the same, I’d be horrified. You’re the one who knows how to concatenate all the clichés, buddy! That’s what we pay you for!

I like this, but let's be honest. Nintendo lies.

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