'I f**king hate gen AI artwork,' Hooded Horse chief says: 'If we're publishing the sport, no f**king AI property'
Totally different recreation corporations strategy generative AI in numerous methods. Some, like Digital Arts, embrace it; others, like Larian, take a extra measured, cautious strategy. After which there’s Hooded Horse, the writer of video games like Infinite Legend 2, Cataclismo, and the breakout hit Manor Lords, whose CEO Tim Bender lately advised Kotaku, “I fucking hate gen AI artwork.”
“It has made my life harder in some ways…immediately it infests shit in a method it should not,” Bender stated. “It’s now written into our contracts if we’re publishing the sport, ‘no fucking AI property’.”
Banning AI artwork is simpler stated than carried out, as some studios—Larian and Sandfall Interactive, to call a pair high-profile examples—have taken to utilizing gen AI in pre-production, ostensibly to assist pace issues alongside. To assist counter that, Bender says he urges builders to not use generative AI wherever, even only for placeholders.
“Due to that, we’re continually having to look at and take care of it and attempt to forestall it from slipping in, as a result of it’s cancerous.”