Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is a staunch supporter of AI, recently taking a stance against Steam's disclosure policy and even protesting the potential 'censorship' of Grok after it was used to create deepfakes and illegal child abuse content on X.
If there's AI controversy, Sweeney will wade in, and this week, conversation around these tools being used to create entire video games has bubbled back to the surface, with Musk even claiming that "AI will figure [out] what video game you'd like best" and generate them for you.
"We have text-to-image and text-to-video, so text-to-GTA is the next logical step in generative AI," Sweeney claimed.
Sweeney has already dabbled with these tools in gaming, as Fortnite introduced an AI Darth Vader companion last year. Players immediately found loopholes in the safety guidelines that allowed them to make the late James Earl Jones to say slurs and memes, a problem not exclusive to Epic Games' hit battle royale.
Where Winds Meet likewise dabbled in AI, only for one player to convince an NPC that they were pregnant with his child.
Even if the kinks were ironed out, however, generative games face a critical issue:...
