It’s not me saying it, it’s the lawyers. The jury is quite literally out own where the copyright lies on AI generated content. The only definite verdict has been that the AI itself isn’t it.

But whether it’s the one who created the model, prompted the model or the ones whose data was used to teach the model 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wibbly wobbly timey wimey

I get regular briefings about this at work, because we have really good lawyers who actually read contracts of the services we use. And have banned multiple ones due to … creative copyright clauses in their contracts.

As for your “generated code is plagiarism” argument, do you have any precedents on that because I’d be interested in reading the verdicts? If true it’s a massive game changer for many industries and open so fucking many companies to lawsuits.

I have one ready to use but it’s trained with company assets and thus not something we can share or legal will have an aneurysm from how stupid we are being 😅

“Replace tools, not jobs” is the best way to use AI.

And also the one that works the best both for people and businesses.

Replacing jobs feels cooler for bosses though…

It’s a weird gray area. Nobody really knows where the limit is. The current consensus is that for a fact the “AI” can’t own a copyright to anything.

How smart can an autocomplete be before it takes away your copyright? Does using snippets count? How smart can the snippet engine be at filling the template?

If I ask AI how to solve something but write the exact same code myself, is it mine?

It If I grab code from stack overflow, does it make it mine?

This one here: https://www.scenario.com/

Also at least Rovio has had an “AI” art asset pipeline for years now, even before ChatGPT. Their ML unit is well over a decade old. And it’s specifically tuned for their own style: https://youtu.be/ZDrqhVSY9Mc

I’m not talking out of my ass, I work with this shit daily.

The problem is that Chinese, Indian and Turkish developers couldn’t care less about western AI purity tests and will blast past any competition who does.

Unless Captain AI Planet stops them, the cat is out of the bag and not going back.

If you want to run a AAA live service game the amount of content you put out every X weeks is how you make money. And the one who can keep up the best amount/quality ratio will always win.

The average gamer won’t care if the latest Gooner F2P or FPS game DLC is AI generated, AI assisted or lovingly hand crafted. They’ll throw their money at it anyway…

Not in general but for this at least? Maybe?

What about AI based autocomplete in an IDE, would that disqualify a game from this specific award?

It’s not a fantasy 😆 It’s an actual product everyone can use.

Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative AI-created assets in the game. When the first AI tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process

Sauce: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-19/the-low-cost-creative-revolution-how-technology-is-making-art-accessible-to-everyone.html

Not exactly a massive AI slop problem, right?

Can we put our collective pitchforks away for this case at least?

This time yes. But the rule ban any and all AI use during development. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the final product or not.

No no. The rules didn’t say “art” it was ALL AI use for the whole duration of the project. Planning, emails, research everything.

Not a single drop of AI is allowed.

So any game whose developer has used a recent version of VSCode will be disqualified in the future? VSCode has a GenAI autocomplete turned on by default.

One single question about an API to ChatGPT and your game is out.

Use Photoshops generative features for a marketing asset: out.

You get how insane the rule is?

You can only qualify it you write your game in vanilla vim with no extensions and graphics must be drawn in an old version of Gimp? 😆

They used AI for placeholder art.

It could’ve been literally Mickey Mouse downloaded from google images and still be fine. None of it was supposed to be shipped.

Big AAA studios have a person or team whose only job is to make sure that doesn’t happen. Smaller studios don’t.

So if I train a model from scratch using only my own art is it still bad?

Games were made by a single person not sleeping for a week.

But people expect more now and one person can’t do it fueled just by passion. The other people want to get paid now, not when the game is released.

Limiting the tools people can use to make games is ableist, elitist and just stupid.

It takes less time for the actual in house artists to use GenAI with a dataset trained with the company’s own style to generate “bulk art” than it takes them to manage an outsourced company doing the same thing.

Sauce: work in gaming, just talked about this with our art producer.

The outsourcing work is literally “make this texture we made ourselves by hand look like it was snowing” type of shit. You can use GenAI and have it done in 30 minutes or spend 2 hours talking back and forth with the outsourcing partner in 10 minute intervals over a week - interrupting your flow every time.

One builder only uses hand tools, other uses power tools.

That’s the difference, nobody is hiring less people because the tools are better.

You need someone to blame for the bugs 👍🏻

Foviated rendering is a massive thing, usually only done in the expensive stuff.

It gives you a pretty big FPS boost because the device doesn’t have to render stuff the human eye can’t see anyway

Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock

Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server

And they finally added copper items 😂

Tried multiple times on different devices, no luck

Why call some drone in an outsourced call center?

Find out the home addresses and numbers of their C-staff and board. Call them, send them physical letters. Picket their homes.

Not at the same scale as mobile traffic

Bluetooth by definition doesn’t go much past 10-20 meters

But hey, at least universities aren’t woke anymore, right? /s

It’s by far the least scummy of all online shooters.

I still have multiple to unlock and I have no issue paying for them. I have way more money than time to play.

But you don’t “need” to unlock them all on the day of release, there is no FOMO component, they don’t disappear after a month.

And if you play enough to unlock them faster than they can get them out, you definitely have the time to grind the 1000SC to unlock them.

Lego Harry Potter

For fucks sake it was obtuse. I had to use a walkthrough to figure out what to do next multiple times just in the first episode

GTA Online still brings a BILLION dollars every year.

The next GTA can’t be anything except 100% perfection and Rockstar isn’t in a hurry

Is Ford a part of the police state because they sell cars to them?

Was it any good? It kinda just disappeared from the zeitgeist. Don’t even know the main characters name.

I’ve played every one except for Mirage, paid like 10€ for every single one.

patientgamers ftw

Criminals in general are stupid. They tend to lack impulse control.

The actual smart ones don’t get caught or steal legally.

Just check how much money GTA online has made for Rockstar every year. It’s an 11 year old game that makes half a BILLION dollars yearly.

No wonder they’re not in a hurry to get GTA 6 out. It MUST be better than GTA online both for gameplay and microtransactions as well as have the tech for live service

So you can just pop that folder on any computer and run it, without installing Steam and without a Steam account?

GoG Vault would disagree with you on that.

You can download the full installers and keep them, nobody can take them away or disable it remotely

Yes they did, not owning the game was FOMO, and they weren’t free at the time.

In-app purchases and limited time game passes are hardly heroin

Nobody is forcing people to buy anything, you CAN resist.