The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in gaming has been increasingly debated recently. Nier series director Yoko Taro is also heavy, expressing concern that game creators could end up losing their jobs to AI.
In a recent interview with Family, translated by Automaton, several Japanese games known for their stories and stories discussed their approach to creating games. There were also Aronkside Yokororo, Kotaro Uchikoshi (Zero Escape, AI: Sommitum File), Kodaka River (danganronpa), and Jiro Her (428: shibuya scramble).
During the interview, the group was asked what the future of adventure games would look like, with both Yoko and Uchikoshi discussing AI.
“There are so many new games I want to create, but I’m worried that with AI technology evolved at such a fast pace, AI-generated adventure games could become mainstream,” Uchikoshi says. He went on to note that AI today struggles to achieve “outstanding writing” that rivals human creativity, and that maintaining the “human touch” is important to stay ahead of technology. However, Yoko also expressed concern.
“I also believe that game creators may lose their jobs because of AI,” Yoko said. “In 50 years, the creators of the game could be treated like a bard.”
Yoko and Ishi agreed when it came to whether they thought they could imitate the world and story that included twists and turns of their work. However, Kodaka said that even if AI can mimic their work and style, they cannot act like a creator. He compared to David Lynch and drew a way for creators to write scenarios in Lynch’s style, but Lynch was able to change his style and make it feel real and lynched.
Yoko raised the idea of using AI to generate new scenarios like the route for adventure games, but Kodaka pointed out how this personalized nature leads to the game not being shared.
Notable creators have been considering their thoughts on AI, large-scale language models and other generation systems for some time. Some people have experimented with it, such as Capcom and Activision. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa recently said generative AI can be used in “creative ways,” but it would also raise intellectual property issues. Microsoft and PlayStation also focus on this topic.
Eric is an Passthecontroller freelance writer.
