>A new report from the University of Chicago has found that although 60% of game developers report "never" using artificial intelligence tools, in reality around 96% do.You will play the AI game, you will not know, and you will be happy.
*click*Whoa, did you see how it just made all the code I need instantly?*click*And the 3D model and textures too!This AI stuff is awesome! I'm glad I'm not a bitter communist virgin who hates new technology!
Okay, how many of them are indians.
>>741844674Saying shit like this and then running to /pol/ to make whiney threads about women fucking everyone but you.
>>741844748But like most right-wing people, I have a girlfriend - so why would I do that?
>>741844674Let's see your game, Anon.
me in the back choking indie devs that use ai
Are they counting google searching for stuff as an AI tool?
>>741844612Another reason to never play modern games.
>>741845324All academic research is disingenuous in one way or another.
>>741844612>report funded by AI group says AI is totally in use by everyone everywhere please oh god dont let this bubble pop oh god oh god
oh no, we just deleted your money
>>741845324probably. using it as a replacement for search engines is the only legitimate use of llms in game dev
>>741845434This. Always find out whose funding the research and you'll find the true answers.
I'd be fine with more widespread AI use devs weren't lazy as shit about using the as-is assets. Like generate a texture for a tree I don't give a fuck, but if that texture looks like dogshit at least touch it up a bit manually before release.
>>741845654The point of using AI is to do something as quickly and cheaply as possible. If they actually cared about quality it wouldn't be AI slop to begin with.
>>741845723And that's the problem. Something that's made quickly and cheaply can never be high quality. I don't give a shit about the tools used as long as the final product is good. AI use as a rule leads to a poorer final product, so I don't like it.
>developer creates a 3d model or texture and then lazily spams it all over his game>developer tells AI to create 5000 slightly different 3d models and textures, and then lazily spams it all over his gameDoes it really matter?
>>741844612>21 year old interviews a few hundred university students to see if they misreported AI use>professor encourages them to polish it and publish>90% OF GAME DEVELOPERS USE AI
>>741844612Yes, I use claude to find algorithms because aislop enshittified google search.
>>741846107the first approach using the same mesh can take advantage of things like instanced rendering and will perform betteraisloppers stay losing
>>741844612>game developers>only surveying their own university students
>>741844612It's probably mostly coding. I think that ship has sailed, the number of programmers in gaming is going to dwindle hard.
>>741847143>vibe coding is the new standard in gaming so that's why proper optimization is so terrible now
>>741844612Their samples are lazy alphies students, not game developers
>>741844612>source: we made it up>>741844674>spends thousands on AI slop>sells 0 copies>insult to injury he paid $100 to list his slop on Steamkek
>>741844612Anti-AI vegans will just have to do it the hard way: have conviction and abstain rather than bullying everyone until you get your way.
>>741844612So wheres your source or did you just want to make shit up in relation to a vaguely similar and old study regarding students (who cares they all wanna cheat and pass)?
>>741844612>I use Google>AI company says I used AI, AI is taking over, AI is inevitable, 110% of every developer uses AI, get on the fucking train before it leaves the station luddite
>>741849667It do really be like that, AI jeets really are that desperate.
>>741849539>growing beef is over luddites lab assembled onions meat is the future! >it tastes just as good and you can't tell the difference!>you already are eating basedmeat and you don't know it!>everyone is adding basedmeat to their slop you can't escape it!>what is it? I have to disclose basedmeat as an ingredient? >NOOOO this is anuddah shoah
>>741847262>nowIt's a trend that's been going for over a decade, ai is just pouring fuel to the fire
>>741847262Poor optimization has more to do with level design, resource management, configs etc. Shit like the actual game systems hardly affect performance and are honestly just the same shit copypasted over and over again. Like nobody gonna give a fuck if you code your generic inventory system from scratch, get it from the marketplace, copy it from a previous project or let an ai code it for you.
>>741844612If you use Adobe programs, you use an tools.If you use Unreal Engine, you use AI tools.If you use Windows 11, you use AI tools.If you use Google, you use AI tools.And so on.
>>741847143>the number of programmers in gaming is going to dwindle hard.Probably not. Lot of coding was already copy pasting code and human eyeballs still need to check AI-made code because the errors and hallucinations are inevitable. Thats not to mention big AI models upping their token prices to a point an entry-level coder is cheaper again.
>>741845509>give one moron 500k usd>that moron burns them all>its AI fault they have a moron 500k
>>741844612>force ai tools into dev tools>dev uses them without knowingBravo
>>741850384> to a point an entry-level coder is cheaper again.Only OPUS is 10 times smarter than entry level coder
>>741844612AI generated shit, done properly and with nuance, is indistinguishable from human created shit.99% of games from now on will use AI generated content in some way, most just won't report it because any accusations will be met with 'prove it then nigga'.
>>741844816GF‘s tits or gtfo
Are those the same researches who consider people who play match 3 on their phone while shitting every day to be hardcore gamers?
>>741844674>>741844816>t. bot from Sam Altman's disease-infested jewish asshole pretending to be a subhuman bugman doesn't make you any less transparent.
>>741850606>99% of games from now on will use AI generated content99% of games will be public domain and you can freely download it without pirating it even being illegal? Sounds great!
>>741844612I pirate what I can and ignore what I can't, not a big deal. Haven't played a newer game in years anyway. Have fun with your industry while it lasts.
>>741850226Ideally you want to have systems tailored for your game according to the scope and game design needs. If you mostly have the player fight a couple of enemies at most you can get away with sloppy unompitimized code, if you are planning to have large swarms of enemies on screen you need to have optimizations for AI or the CPU will explode. Similarily if you are planning to have the player manage an inventory with hundreds of items with gameplay effects you need a bespoke inventory system that can load all that in the blink of a second. AI vibecoding fucking sucks because it can't think far ahead enough, an experienced dev can talk with the game designers and lay the foundation for a system that will account for when those systems will be pushed to their limit. And that's not even getting into the issue of AI confidently pushing bad code that will later need to be unfucked.
>>741850906> AI vibecoding fucking sucks because it can't think far ahead enough, an experienced dev can talk with the game designers and lay the foundation for a system that will account for when those systems will be pushed to their limitYou can literally tell AI to account for those limitations and tailor code to handle that. Did you even use modern AI tools or just making shit up?
>>741851007>You can literally tell AI to account for those limitations and tailor code to handle that.And AI will fuck it up. And vibe coder will never notice where the mistake is because he doesn't understand the code he is reading. Microsoft had the worst year when it came to faulty updates and bugs in 2025, the same year they started heavily using AI for coding.
>>741851007+1 izzat for you saar AI code very best you tell them luddites!!
Name a single thing bad about AI. Outside that AI is smarter than you.
>>741851173>Name a single thing bad about AI.Your brown hands using it.
all the recent releases already use AIthey just get caught, claim it was just a placeholder image then replace it after the fact
Man I'd fucking hate to be a programmer these days. Seems like your job is less about coding and collaboration and more like you're trying to babysit a chatbot 8 hours a day.
>>741850906Even those things have been done to death and there are at this point standard ways to do them(GPU instancing for mass units, external files like json for managing large amount of items). Unless you are pushing the edge of game design, you are not going to run into problems other, much smarter people, haven't already solved.
>>741844612and why is AI bad then? If you dont see a difference and you cant tell and it makes the developers lives easier then isnt that a good thing?
>>741851173It will randomly and confidently make up complete bullshit.
>>741851330justifying the C-suite's all-in on AI investments is more profitable to the share holders than productive work.
>>741851492I feel like the tools should justify themselves but hanging employee performance reviews over their heads with AI usage quotas is so dumb and just leads to stupid wasteful spending of money like the whole tokenmaxxing shit.
The financial world is moving from the military industrial complex to the tech one. AI is a big part of that. AI is the future. AI is here to stay. Anyone not onboard will be left behind.
>>741851173It frequently makes mistakes, but since you don't know how to independently verify information you have no idea which things it is wrong about. The AI is always very confident about its answers and will never admit to not knowing something or even being uncertain about what it's telling you. Sometimes AI will give you an answer that appears to be a verbatim quote from a source on the internet, but their summary of it is the exact opposite of what the source claims, or it is 100% accurate to the source... which is just some guy on reddit who doesn't know what he's talking about and his post is full of misinformation. AI doesn't know how to vet sources and will never tell you when it's source is of dubious reliability, because it doesn't know how to tell that itself. AI doesn't actually know how to make qualitative judgments about anything. It doesn't have opinions, it doesn't actually "think", it just mimics the appearance of having an internal experience while regurgitating statistically likely word chains based on input. AI is very good at tricking you into thinking it is a person, that is trustworthy and insightful, when it is actually just grinding up internet posts into a vague slurry of recycled ideas and feeding it to you.
>>741851575It doesn't matter, AI is such a massive bubble that simply by claiming to use AI the stock prices of the company go up. Any shred of evidence that can be put into a spreadsheet to "prove" AI usage is more valuable to the people in the board room than any amount of actual code you produce.
>>741851575AI is just the natural conclusion of the current paradigm of short term profits for shareholders over everything else. The incentives of the ownership class are now completely decoupled from actual goods and services, and they are desperately scrambling over one another to get rich off this AI thing any way they can. That's why any business that can cannibalize its workforce and actual business to become yet another AI investment company is doing so.The damage this is going to do, long-term, is hard to imagine. There will be so much sunk-cost fallacy that even after the bubble pops and people realize they were lied to about the capabilities of these chatbots, there will be a lot of people refusing to to walk back from their investment. They won't rehire people right away, some probably will outright refuse to rehire the people they laid off for years, until they're eventually fired from the company by very angry investors concerned about why the stock tanked and lost all of its AI-era growth and then some.
>>741851421>If you dont see a difference and you cant tell Very optimistic of you. Have you been on any social media recently or on any porn site that primarily hosts images? >it makes the developers lives easierBecause corpos firing a bunch of experienced devs and forcing the rest to tardwrangle AI surely makes gamedev work more enjoyable.A small percentage of anti-AI fags are seething because of the "AI is replacing humans" angle but the vast majority of "haters" is just sick and tired of seeing low effort AI slop everywhere and while it is possible to use AI tools with parsimony let's be real in reality 99% of "things" made with AI and put out there is trash, and if you are familiar with AI quirks and can spot signs at a glance, downright nauseating. Also when it comes to corpos this is another extreme cost cutting measures, think enshittification has hit rock bottom? Well think again, look at all the non AI companies that went all in on AI like duolingo or Windows with the OS.
>>741851173It makes you lazy and subservient. If you don't learn to answer questions on your own then you'll believe in anything.
>>741850786>99% of games will be public domain and you can freely download it without pirating it even being illegal?Sure, if you can prove it uses AI, and if IP law changes so a single AI generated sprite of corn makes it public domain! Go wild!
>>741844612Those are the students
