Why do people have so much animosity towards AI when Bethesda is fundamentally a software company?
People act like AI suddenly appeared with ChatGPT. It didn’t. AI has been part of computer science and game development for decades. Developers like Tim Cain were thinking about AI long before generative models existed. Whether it’s NPC behavior, pathfinding, decision-making, procedural systems, or modern AI-assisted development tools, AI has been intertwined with games for a long time.
AI is a field of computer science, not a single product. Lumping together NPC behavior, machine learning, generative art, speech synthesis, testing tools, and code assistants under ‘AI is garbage’ is an oversimplification. If you object to a particular use of AI, that’s a much more meaningful discussion than rejecting the entire field.
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