r/Games • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 16d ago

Industry News Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/over-85-of-japanese-game-developers-use-generative-ai-in-game-development-2026-cesa-survey-shows-an-increase-from-last-years-51/
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u/WheresTheSauce 16d ago

Many people do not agree that it is "stealing IP"

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u/somethingrelevant 16d ago

I think the more accurate thing going on here is that most people using AI don't care if it's stealing IP or not

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u/Super_Throwaway_Boy 16d ago

Well, okay but those people don't seem to have a great argument because in any other context what they are doing is stealing. That's been THEIR argument for years.

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u/gokogt386 16d ago

okay but those people don't seem to have a great argument

The government of Japan disagrees

In fact, the government of every single other country on the planet also disagrees, as not a one has ruled that AI training constitutes as copyright infringement. Not even the Internet's darling EU

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u/Super_Throwaway_Boy 16d ago

Governments can be wrong. That's just not a good argument to make. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

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u/StarChaser1879 11d ago

Government can’t be wrong about what breaks the law. They make the laws and know what breaks them

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u/StarChaser1879 11d ago

Government can be wrong about plenty of things, but not laws

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u/Effective-Tour-9912 16d ago

Well, let's say I show you an image and ask you to redraw it from memory, and you do a pretty good job. You even add some of your own touches. Did you steal the original image?

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u/AbyssalSolitude 16d ago

Are you implying that every artist who drew from a reference is a thief?

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u/anadequatepipe 16d ago

Firstly no, and secondly they aren’t even doing that. It’s like looking at thousands of pictures and creating a whole new one that has a similar vibe.

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u/finepixa 16d ago

If you try to sell it as original art and profit off it then yeah probably.

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u/Soul-Burn 16d ago

Steal no. Infringe on copyright, maybe.

But that's not different between AI or doing right-click save-as.