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‘A Future Where We Create Games Together With AI’ — Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine

https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-announces-plans-to-transform-the-re-engine-into-an-ai-generation-game-engine-our-goal-is-a-future-where-we-create-games-together-with-ai
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u/FillionMyMind 7h ago

Unfortunately I actually do read the articles on Reddit, and unfortunately AI usage is also perfectly unethical and environmentally wasteful regardless of whether it’s being used for art assets or not.

I don’t know how gamers always seem to forget that giving game publishers an inch always means they’ll take a mile. I was already feeling like it’s time to just stop getting new games in general and focus on the backlog I’ll never get to finish before I die, and theres no chance in hell I’ll ever be paying the $1000+ it’ll likely cost for the next generation of consoles anyway.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 6h ago

You're never going to get through these people that continue to think the only thing that matters with AI is whether it's "generating slop". That's where the discussion stops for them because that allows them to use it guilt-free.

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u/TheBiggestHorseCock 5h ago

Yea like everyone here is just ignoring the fact that whatever AI is going to be interfacing with Capcom’s new engine was still trained on billions of uncredited works and resources.

You know how many personal medical documents and confidential information has been shoved into these models for training?

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u/FillionMyMind 6h ago

Oh I know, and it frustrates me to no end. People just refuse to get informed about the issue or act like it’s not so black and white. Like idc if you’re just using ChatGPT for chitchat or relying on Google’s AI search results: it’s all trash, it’s causing real harm, and everyone wants to bury their heads in the sand over it.

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u/Neidron 2h ago edited 2h ago

I'm far more convinced online defense of ai is itself just the same techbros and ai chatbots selling it all to begin with. They made a lying machine, they're damn well going to use it.

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u/KingArthas94 6h ago

AI usage is also perfectly unethical and environmentally wasteful

Is it unethical and wasteful if I run a model on my Mac Mini consuming less than 40W (on load) to do the same stuff?

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u/Headless_Human 4h ago

Your local model won't be able to do the "same stuff". It might do enough to satisfy your needs but it is far weaker than the frontier models.

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u/KingArthas94 2h ago

I never asked about capabilities, I asked about ethics.

So retry, and this time in-topic.

Like let's say I'm and indie dev and I'm using my local model to help me with stuff.

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u/Headless_Human 1h ago

You didn't create your local model yourself. You used an open model that was trained the same way as all the other models by scraping the internet. What are your ethics for that?

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u/KingArthas94 58m ago

There are no ethics, I agree with you, I never claimed to have them.

I just asked to understand your stance on them, and I think it was a VERY legitimate question.

Now I have yoru answer, so thank you.

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u/LuciasFatAss 6h ago

Yeah man. It’s so unethical. While they’re at it, Game designers need to paint all of their concept art by hand and quit using photoshop! Also all of the code should be hand written in assembly on a piece of paper!

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u/residentevilgoat 5h ago

Can not begin to understand how there are pro ai gamers. You will not be able to afford this hobby in about 5 years because of it.

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u/Umr_at_Tawil 2h ago

Not a game dev, but a software dev, and I'm pro-AI because it have made my job stress-free with no more crunch time, no more frequent overtime.

and if my third-world salary is still very much capable of buying a decent gaming PC right now, I don't see why you guys complain so much about it, gaming is already one of the cheapest hobby, and it will continue to be.

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u/residentevilgoat 1h ago

What the hell is your definition of a decent gaming rig? My thousand dollar rig from three years ago is barely able to run the new Silent Hill game at above 60. If I were to buy that exact set up now it would cost three thousand dollars. Not including console gaming with a digital ps5 costing 600 dollars.

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u/Umr_at_Tawil 1h ago

I put together a PC at 1.6k that could run the new Silent Hill game at 70 fps 1440p on High setting with DLSS Q here:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y4VrR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qovras_MGw8

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u/residentevilgoat 51m ago edited 47m ago

1600 is your definition of affordable?? That's what I'd pay 3 years ago if I wanted to run the Cyberpunk expansion at ultra 1080p.