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A new, AI-focused video game patent application from Sony has surfaced online. It describes the use of agents trained on player data to play games for people. Why grind for XP when an authorized bot could do it? Even more dystopian, the patent mentions the possibility of players exchanging their training data with one another for real money. 

As spotted by Cheat Happens, Sony’s 19138338 patent, which was filed in 2022 but only officially published last month on July 23, details a “technology of generating an agent to play a game on behalf of a user.” Some of you may remember a similar patent published by Sony back in January, which featured an AI-controlled “ghost” that would complete games for you, but this new patent dives much further into Black Mirror territory. 

For the past few years, ever since the rise of AI, we have seen corporate executives frequently tout generative AI as the future of video games and video game development. Improving pipelines, generating assets, doing localizations, replacing voice actors with AI, among other things. However, legal reality on the ground tells a very different story.

According to Haley MacLean, a corporate IP lawyer and head of the video game practice at Voyer Law, clauses banning the use of generative AI have gone from rare additions to mandatory boilerplate language across developer and publisher contracts in the gaming industry.

The lawyer revealed a massive shift in contract negotiations between indie and AA game studios. No AI was once a niche clause used by cautious publishers but is now a standard practice.

Disclaimer: I changed the WSJ's headline because this is the part I found the most interesting. Original headline: Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.

>Reddit, the online message board that powers a swath of Google search results, has discussed shutting off the technology giant’s access to its content for AI use, according to people familiar with the matter. > >It is part of a growing chorus of online media companies expressing frustration with the tech giant as AI changes the way people ask questions, siphons off search traffic and upends publishers’ revenue models. They say the search engine is no longer a reliable source of visitors, especially after Alphabet’s GOOGL Google expanded its AI search features in recent months. USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People Inc. and Reuters are all evaluating how, or even if, they will continue to work with Google > >Reddit struck a $60 million-a-year deal in 2024 that allowed Google to use its material to train AI models. But with AI-generated answers to queries reducing clicks to outside websites, Reddit executives are assessing what the upside is of continuing to feed its content to Google, said the people familiar with the matter. The companies are in talks about potentially renewing their deal, which is ending soon.

This is gonna go deep and its just a start but lets fafo where it goes. Ok start with AI why do you think it wants to involve the human race in its future? Pretty sure we will be on reservations while it goes about its life? Why would it even consider us in its future. We are ants.

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The ineptitude (that or the evilness — either/or) in both google’s implementation and initial response is infuriating.