We're in for an interesting future, folks. You've probably heard about all the "AI" discussion lately, like the ChatGPT chatbot that's been dominating headlines, and now we're starting to get a glimpse at how video game "leaks" will evolve in the future with this technology. In fact, it's pretty much taking over already!
One of the stories that was doing the rounds over the weekend was a Starfield image leak which apparently was taken from an upcoming trailer. That turned out not to be the case - instead it was created with an artificial intelligence art generation service called Midjourney. Here's a look:
No harm done, right? True, but there are more concerning examples if you look around. Earlier this month, an audio clip that appeared to show Bethesda's Todd Howard saying some very NSFW things (seriously, be warned) about The Elder Scrolls 6 racked up over 400,000 views on YouTube, and we have to admit, the voice sounded extremely convincing.
Many of the commenters on the video thought the same thing:
"This is so well done it's downright frightening."
There's plenty of potential to have some fun with this, but what happens when people start truly believing these apparent leaks? It's going to be very interesting to see how this develops over the coming months and years...
What do you make of all this? Let us know down in the comments section below.
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I don't find it scary, really. I think it's a bit amusing and just makes clear that journalists and reporters will need to use due diligence.
Have you seen that video about if countries were a super villain? All art was done by AI. I feel game devs could use AI to get ideas about artwork for new games.
Plot twist: Character looks better in Midjourney AI than in Creation Engine 2 /jk
On a more serious note I clicked the Todd Howard link but had only skim read the text (my bad) and was INITIALLY so confused, really terrifying that it can sound that accurate. Had they not gone full SNL with the "16 times the detail..." I might not have guessed it was fake. Scary stuff.
That Todd clip is wild wth
Hey bring the AI on! It’s going to change everything in how games are developed and speed up the time from start to finish. Perhaps we can just ask for a Starfield type game with 200 side quests and voila it’s downloading
Honestly anyone not utterly terrified of simply existing at all in our newfound world is an utter moron.
There’s some technology that’s already available which is going too far in my opinion. Like deep fakes for example. People can say things like ‘It’s not even that good or convincing’ But it’s the fact that this already exists and who knows how much more it can develop. You always have to look ahead and think about the big picture.
@NEStalgia I just want to play great games as the real world is too messed up. Bring on the singularity!
@grumpypotato NPC are dumb as they are not using the new tech but their own limited programming tools. Microsoft can leverage Chat GTP into gaming and it will be like talking to a real person in real-time.
I think most people predicted this would happen, but Kojima was oddly specific in MGS 2 for situations like this. Has CIA written all over it.
Just waiting until one of these AI deepfakes triggers a major political event like a war or uprising of some sort. You know it's coming.
@Ralizah Preeeety sure that's what it was designed for (and funded by) from the start....
@NEStalgia AI research was always going to get to this point eventually, with or without government involvement. It's the inevitable result of persistent scientific advancement.
Like all technology, it'll be abused by powerful actors, and we just have to hope we overcome whatever hurdles lie in front of us. Although given the instability of the U.S. atm socially and politically, I'm inclined to think our country won't survive the transition process.
For better or for worse, societies like China and India are probably going to define the mid-to-late twenty-first century.
@Ralizah It's funny, I was one of those "science club" kids in high school. I've gone full circle and full anti-science. I hate technology and want it erased. Humanity should not be allowed to build advanced tools or really advance past the bronze age. The species can't handle it.
"Societies like China and India" - I think that's the problem, we ARE a society like China. They recreated us in their image after we handed them the money to buy us out. That's really the main problem. Sure they're cohesive unlike us, but they're also more American than Americans in their selfish me-first mindset. We became them before we knew it, and conversely, they'll become us before they know it. At this rate I think it's UAE that represents the future.
@NEStalgia There's no getting off this ride. Even if we bomb ourselves back into the dark ages, we'll eventually just regroup and try again at some point. It's in our nature.
As a weeby teen in the early 00s, I grew up watching Japanese media that went to pains to warn me about the dangers of information technology when it becomes sufficiently integrated into human life, so it will be with little grief that I watch the downfall and painful transformation of human civilization into something unrecognizable.
@Ralizah I'm already beyond the point of recognizing or understanding the world. Nothing good has come of the tech "progress" of the past 30 years, we've just dug a more and more miserable hole. And the amazing thing is everyone celebrates it! (While popping meds to forget it.)
Im at that point of wishing I took the blue pill because all I see is every year being worse than the one before it, with the bottom dropping out suddenly and violently at any time.
Definitely a fan of bombing ourselves back to the stone age. We're literally years at best away from 90% of humanity being redundant and superfluous. There's no good ending to that...
Now excuse me while I wait to get my psvr2 so I can bathe in a world where rogue ai annihilated earth. I need a story of hope.
@NEStalgia yeah. I was hoping this wouldn't come true but, as with everything in this world, my worst nightmare usually does.
@IronMan30 Yep, same
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