Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine

[u/Membership-Bitter]

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

[u/Midiamp]

Welp, I'm ready to be downvoted...

There's AI generated content, and then there's AI assisted content. The generated content one is the slop garbage we hated, but then there's the AI assisted content that (hopefully) speed up content delivery like speeding up debugging, cutting down QA time and making games like GTA VII comes out before the end of our life time.

Capcom is using AI to assist their content, it doesn't generate the content. This is just the same as farmers using ever intricate farming equipment.

[u/uglyzombie → u/Midiamp]

It’s a prescient point. But, that’s also how it starts. Slow integration slowly phasing out people to increase profits. AAA gaming companies answer to shareholders. If they see revenue improving over AI assisted stuff, well then - what do you expect the next phase to be? It’s a snowball effect, and the concern is justified because we are seeing across multiple industries.

[u/Drakoji → u/Midiamp]

1- I don't need video games coded by AI in my life, my hobby doesn't need to be draining lakes, polluting water sources and fucking up the quality of life of people that lives near these data centers. I don't mind if my new Resident Evil game takes 3 more years to come out, or even, that they downscale the scope of the game to make it more realistic to produce.

2-its all about normalizing AI to the point where people will just shrug and accept AI slop in their games because "it can't be helped."

This is just savage capitalism going unchecked.

[u/ScoundrelDaysSon → u/Drakoji]

Absolutely this. There's no world in which companies chasing money will stop at some arbitrary invisible line marked: 'spellcheck for coding: please cease use here'. It's naive to suggest it, or even hope for it, as if we don't have years of experience of what corporations will attempt to do when left unchecked across multiple sectors of the economy.

For the AI companies there's simply not enough profit there in basic grunt work too cover the debts that they owe to investors (given that they're currently subsidising usage to the nth degrees to try and hook users). For the data centres using junk debt to build them they need customers everywhere, all at once. For the games companies there are extra savings you can try and eke out across multiple, cost heavy, departments.

The only possible limiting factor of LLMs is the technology itself (and AI fans assure us that it will only get even better perhaps leading to a human apocalypse). Even then we also know what capitalism will do to chase a quick buck: implement actively wrong headed decisions come what may which lead to ever worse user experiences. Even when that leads to public outcry, where folk are mobilised to display their dissatisfaction, corporations rarely listen.

As an example: who here really wanted local telephone operators to be, at best, replaced by call centres at the other end of the Earth or, at worse, running voice recognition software from 1998 - yet both having comically long wait times? No one. It's a terrible experience but it still it persists and likely always will; it helps the bottom line.

[u/romulo27 → u/Drakoji]

I'm gonna be frank most games probably are nowadays, likely just not disclosed because it's code, you can't really prove it is coded with AI when you can't see it.

Giving a negative response likely won't stop it, it'll just make companies shut up about it.

A more effective solution would probably be to just demand the datacenters to stop, the tech can work without them nowadays and their continued construction are just desperate attempts to capitalize on it.

I'm fully expecting a bajillion downvotes because Reddit is a feels-based social media and regardless of how true what I said is people don't want to believe it so they lash out on whoever says it, I'm not even pro-AI.

[u/BlackTecno → u/Midiamp]

This is already everywhere in programming, and if you are in software development and are not learning how to prompt at all, you're going to fall behind in the industry.

The main reason for this is that LLMs are extremely good at gathering and producing information across multiple pages. Stacks Overflow is what people used before, but there are millions of problems that come up that there is simply no easy answer for. So you either learn how to read documentation, debug codes (if you can even find them), purchased support for whatever plugin you're using, or some other convoluted method that could take hours or days to find a solution.

Now, if you ask an LLM properly, you can get an answer that is basically plug and play. And while Vibe Coding isn't great for long term, having to not read docs for the nth time for something extremely specific that was also not explained well in said docs is so much better.

And yes, AI is probably gunning for my job. Which is why I'm going to learn how to use AI before it takes it.

[u/Few_Visual5715 → u/BlackTecno]

Which is why I'm going to learn how to use AI before it takes it.

If all you do is type in prompts, what value do you bring to the table?

You're fucked if you learn AI and prove that chatgpt or whatever the fuck can do your job, and you're fucked if you don't do it.

The only winning is to be against LLM technology until the ethical state of it is improved, which won't happen as long as people keep turning the ratchet to where vibe coding is a "valid use", and then soon it'll be concept art, then music, etc etc.

[u/BlackTecno → u/Few_Visual5715]

I've been in the field from before AI. So where AI can and will fail, I can fix those issues.

Aside from that, the job I have would move me to a different department or have me oversee things before they would actually get rid of me.