Former God of War director of product development, Meghan Morgan Juinio, has recently defended using generative artificial intelligence in game development. Generative AI has been a very controversial topic in game development, and the God of War veteran is the latest person to defend it.
Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, generative AI has become one of the most discussed topics in many fields, including the games industry. Many developers are against using gen AI, but the technology continues to grow and gain more users as time passes.
In an interview with IGN during the recent Gamescom Asia x Thailand Games Show, Juinio defended using gen AI in game development. According to her, AI is merely a tool that can augment the developer’s capabilities, and if they don’t embrace it, they are selling themselves short. Juinio defended that gen AI is going to evolve whether people are onboard with it or not, so devs may as well use it. She compared the technology to procedurally-generated content, pointing to SpeedTree, a popular software that generates trees in real time and has been used for over two decades. However, Juinio explained that while she believes that gen AI is here to...
