cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39480859
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opposes Steam’s “Made with AI” label for games, arguing AI involvement is inevitable in future development and such tags are unnecessary outside art and licensing contexts. He emphasizes that mandatory AI disclosures for games are impractical and not meaningful for consumers.
Sweeney, as always, is turning a nugget of truth into the most offensive thing possible.
Line-by-line autocomplete when coding is fine. It’s helpful. That’s what he’s sort-of trying to say, no that it needed saying.
Selling vibe coded, SEO’d AI slop on storefronts is not fine. That is obviously what the Steam tag is for, and railing against that is so out-of-touch, it’s… unreal.
He’s the same with EGS. “A store with a 30% fee and a price-dictating monopoly is not ideal” is a simple message to agree with. Yet somehow he’s turned that into radioactive sludge.
The somehow:
To be fair, they can’t price below Steam. That’s the problem.
The rest of it is a tire fire, yeah. It doesn’t have to be steam, but basic tagging + reviews would’ve gone a long way.