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Title: AI Mistakes Are Infuriating Gamers as Developers Seek Savings

Link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/193...

The $200 billion video game industry is caught between studios eager to cut
ballooning development costs through AI and a player base that has grown
openly hostile to the technology after a string of visible blunders. As
Bloomberg news, Arc Raiders, a surprise hit from Stockholm-based Embark
Studios that sold 12 million copies in three months, was briefly vilified
online for its robotic-sounding auto-generated voices -- even as CEO Patrick
Soderlund insists AI was only used for non-essential elements. EA's
Battlefield 6 and Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 both drew gamer
anger this winter over thematically mismatched or poorly generated graphics,
and Valve's Steam has added labels to flag games made using AI. Some 47% of
developers polled by research house Omdia said they expect generative AI to
reduce game quality, and PC gamers -- now facing inflated hardware prices
from AI-driven demand for graphics chips -- have turned reflexively
antagonistic.

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