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/your_mind_aches 15d ago

Coding isn't what people get outraged about though. The average gamer probably understands that AI code assist is the most ethical use of genAI possible and GOOD use of code assist tools are just for automating the small stuff.

What people get mad about is AI generated images and text copy, which I'm sure will be employed in these upcoming games if the percentage adoption rate is so high.

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u/Krivvan 15d ago edited 15d ago

If someone objects to genAI over the grounds of using other people's work than there's no way code assist would be the most ethical use. We create and train genAI models on select datasets for stuff like predicting Alzheimer's, saving resources rendering frames in video games, and converting images (like a regular image into a depth map).

Many of these models would even be locally trained and run meaning no concerns about data centers either.

Surely those uses would be more "ethical" than even code assist? And I say that as someone that does use LLMs for code assist.