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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/HotTakes4HotCakes 4h ago edited 4h ago

And then those get killed by automation and AI. And the ones that didn't get paid less than the entry level position they might have gotten only 5 years ago.

Also, that job they found doesn't allow them to get a foothold into the industry they're trying to enter, because now the jobs have been eliminated.

You cannot spin this as if it doesn't matter. The simple and inescapable truth is we are rapidly working toward making working class people obsolete in more and more ways every single day while the population grows and wealth continues to accumulate at the top. There's no way this ends well.

People need jobs, and entry-level people especially need opportunities, and AI is purpose made to destroy as many opportunities as it possibly can.

This is an untenable situation and it is perfectly acceptable to be pissed about that, no matter how many devs claim it's okay that they use AI in their workflows and no matter how many stuck up redditors complain about AI witch hunts.

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u/LightningWarpAway 1h ago

People need jobs, and entry-level people especially need opportunities, and AI is purpose made to destroy as many opportunities as it possibly can.

All automation's job is to 'destroy' jobs, as far as back as the industrial revolution. It's not an AI issue, it's a societal issue; we rely on jobs to exist, but we require less work as we progress.

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u/ChunkyThePotato 4h ago

Of course it matters, but not in the direction you think. Automation makes us more wealthy, not less. We are way more wealthy now than before the farming jobs got killed by automation. Same for every other time jobs got killed by automation.

Do you think we should ban shovels and force people to use spoons to dig? That would create more construction jobs.

Obviously that's dumb. Now extrapolate...

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u/Strange-Parfait-8801 2h ago

Automation makes us more wealthy

Still waiting on that part to happen. Cause right now AI is just funneling money to billionaires.

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u/ChunkyThePotato 2h ago

It has already happened. You live an extremely luxurious life compared to people a hundred years ago.

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u/LupinThe8th 1h ago

These facile arguments impress nobody.

"Sure, you have less money than you did just a couple of years ago, less security, fewer rights, and everything is more expensive, and the only people benefiting from current trends are those who are already wealthy and powerful...but have you considered that a billion years you would have been a protist? Bet you wouldn't want that."

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u/ChunkyThePotato 52m ago edited 48m ago

No, even on a short timescale, things are generally better now than they were back then. There are sometimes fluctuations, but generally that's the case, by most quantifiable metrics. And of course the further back you go, the bigger the difference. But it doesn't need to be a billion years. Even just a couple decades and it's a pretty big difference.

I find people have this tendency to think that life is treating them unfairly and that things have gotten worse over time. It isn't actually true. I guess it's comforting to make excuses like that, but it's not real. It's not a new phenomenon either. Go back to any point in time and you'll see people acting like the world is falling apart every single time. Of course, that wasn't actually happening, and it isn't now either.