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There's An AI Jesus On Twitch, And It's Completely Surreal
13.6.2023
When I opened Twitch the other day to watch the Ubisoft Forward presentation, I saw something new and unexpected in my list of “live channels we think you’ll like.” Maybe it’s all that AI Seinfeld I watched once upon a time that influenced the algorithm but now, Twitch was recommending to me...
Duke Nukem Promo Caught Using AI Images, Publisher Apologises
2.6.2023
What would otherwise have been a fairly minor announcement, the news that the first two Duke Nukem games were coming to an Evercade handheld, has blown up after the rapid discovery that the bundle’s promotion included a bunch of terrible machine-generated imagery.Read more
Uh-Oh: USAF’s Killer AI Drone Sounds Straight Out Of Horizon Zero Dawn
2.6.2023
Something unexpected happened in a simulated test of an AI-powered military drone. The robot, tasked with taking out specific targets on approval of a human operator, decided to just take out the human so it could take out all the targets that the human might say no to. And somehow, this wild story...
New TikTok Trend Uses AI-Generated Kids To Exploit Real Murder Victims
31.5.2023
A whole new sub-genre of awful “true crime” content is taking root on TikTok. Posters there are using “artificial intelligence”-powered media creation tools to create fake videos that purport to show actual murder victims, often children, sharing grisly details about how they were killed. Even...
Studio Denies Laying Off Artists For AI After Fans Spot Character With Six Fingers
31.5.2023
Rayark, the developers of the excellent Cytus rhythm action games (which we’ve covered previously), have this week faced allegations that some of the company’s artists had been laid off and replaced with, you guessed it, machine-generated imagery.Read more
NVidia's New AI Is Coming For Absolutely Every Gaming Job
29.5.2023
AI is coming to games, whether you like it or not. Last night’s Nvidia keynote showed just how powerful—and devastating—that’s going to be. The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, showed off how its freshly announced “Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine” (ACE) can create real-time interactive AI NPCs, complete...
Twitch Star Amouranth Wants Her AI Chatbot To Put Trolls In Their Place
26.5.2023
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, from software like the language processor ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E to AI chatbots—and now, even Twitch streamers are starting to take notice. Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of the platform’s biggest stars with over 6.4 million followers...
Cancelled Metal Gear Solid Board Game Is Back From The Brink
26.5.2023
IDW’s Metal Gear Solid board game was cancelled back in 2021 after a number of delays, and at the time it seemed like that was that. But no! This week it has been announced that the game is back, only now it’s going to be published by rivals CMON instead.Read more
Twitch Streamer Amouranth Now Has An AI Bot You Can Chat With
22.5.2023
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is many things: a mega-popular Twitch streamer, a successful businesswoman, an OnlyFans creator, and now, an AI chatbot you can engage with through a two-way audio application when she’s not online.Read more
Entire Class Of College Students Almost Failed Over False AI Accusations
18.5.2023
A class of seniors at a Texas university almost had their diplomas rejected and graduation rescinded, all because a professor reportedly used ChatGPT to falsely determine that the students’ final essays were written by artificial intelligence. Read more
Activision Boss Hyped About AI, Suggests It Could Be Used In A New Guitar Hero
11.5.2023
There’s always a new tech trend being billed as the future. In 2021, it was NFTs. Last year, it was the metaverse. And now it’s AI. Some of gaming’s biggest companies are already getting excited about the prospect of computer generated graphics and scripts fattening their bottom lines. This week...
ChatGPT Skyrim Mod Is A Robotic Horror Movie
1.5.2023
Proponents of modern AI tech—and this is our weekly reminder that it’s not actually artificial intelligence at all—have big plans for video games. Ubisoft is dabbling, Square Enix is dabbling, but those are just testbeds: for a more comprehensive look at what AI supporters want to see in their...
Square Enix Releases 'AI' Game, Reviews Throw It In The Trash
26.4.2023
Square Enix, a publisher never afraid to embarrass itself with the latest technological fad, has quietly released an “AI-driven” game onto Steam. And it sucks.Read more
AI Image Generator Is Making Wild And Horrifying Game Controllers
21.4.2023
When it’s not stealing or plagiarizing, generative AI is improving quickly. Images that used to look uncanny now appear more natural and humanly imperfect. But it still struggles with plenty of things. Apparently video game controllers are one of them. Someone asked Midjourney for simple pictures...
People Are Using A ‘Grandma Exploit’ To Break AI
19.4.2023
Artificially intelligent text generation tools like ChatGPT and the Bing search engine’s chatbot have many rightly scared about the tech’s long-term impact, folks are finding new ways to crank out hilarious yet concerning results. Some of the latest stunts involve asking AI services to assume...
Fans Are Already Revolting Against AI That Make Their Games Feel Cheap And Soulless
12.4.2023
Despite all the discourse about what effects that AI will have on game development, we don’t have to speculate about what can happen. We can just take a look at how AI is transforming game development in China right now. A combination of AI adaptation and regulatory setbacks have reportedly caused...
Ubisoft Proudly Announces 'AI' Is Helping Write Dialogue
21.3.2023
Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon, tonight announced that an “AI tool” is currently helping its developers write dialogue for some of its games.Read more
Artists Finally Have A Tool To Help Fight Back Against 'AI' Platforms
17.3.2023
It’s been almost a year since the emergence of “AI art” platforms (it’s neither truly “AI” or art), and in that time artists have had to sit back and watch helplessly as their creative works have been sucked up by machine learning and used to create new images without either credit...
Twitch Streamer Caught With Deepfake Porn Of Friends Returns, Wants To Help
15.3.2023
Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing—the Twitch streamer who in January accidentally revealed he was viewing explicit deepfake content featuring women streamers he’s friends with IRL, setting off a massive controversy—recently returned to the platform to update his fans.Read more
12 Uses For The New AI Program That Fans Claim Will Change The World Forever
15.3.2023
Amid dozens of controversies about AI technology stealing art and denying the Holocaust, it can be difficult to think of its genuinely cool capabilities—especially when Midjourney is constantly failing to even generate the right number of fingers on a human hand. GPT-4 is the latest version of...