• moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub
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    1 month ago

    “Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they’ve spent months building tools to craft levels quicker,” said one employee. “Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams. Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals have been creating.”

    Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.

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      These games should be illegal anyways. They’re basically creating an algorithm that inhibits you to influence you to pay anyways. Not a game with gameplay but an actual business and this is just the business model layered like a game.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        I was looking for some games to pass time in waiting rooms etc and was disappointed to see even Bejeweled has ‘contains ads’ & ‘in-app purchases’ warnings on play store. Why can’t I outright buy it like I already have on Steam?

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        Yep. I assume since Candy Crush hasn’t been culturally relevant for like 10 years that it’s on its last leg anyway and this is a desperate attempt to prop up a dying company. Though I’m afraid to check though because I don’t want to see that it’s still posting record profits year after year.

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    Good. It’s soul crushing to think that actual humans deliberately made the crap in that app.

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      Good point. This is a pilot program for Microsoft. All negative press gets associated with King. Even the Wikipedia shows “Activision” as the parent company as if to buffer negative news from Microsoft.

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    While most companies replacing employees with AI usually ends in failure for the company, I believe AI will be able to make games like this just as effectively, if not more.

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    I don’t see any way this can go wrong. And even if it does, it’s dead easy to rehire talent. /s

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    1 month ago

    “If we can just get rid of all the humans, I’ll have a machine that prints me free money!”

    This is all that the AI push is about. It really is that stupid. Nobody is going to ever pay for AI if they aren’t employed anymore.