2024 is now grimly underway, and we have our traditional annual statement/threat from Square Enix, promising yet more terrible futures that we do not want. Let’s mock and hate Square Enix’s horrid plans to exploit A.I. and other tech fads while asking why they’re not creaming their jeans about NFTs anymore!
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The most evil degree a person can get has to be the MBA.
The sad thing is, while NFTs were never going to catch on, this ‘AI’ is only going to get better and harder to detect over time. Unlike NFTs, it feels like this is inevitably going to be a long term shit show rather than a flash in the pan before crashing.
The letter “could’ve itself been written by AI”, you say, and I wonder: do we have any reason whatever to suppose that it wasn’t?
If they fucking put generative shit into the FF7 remake games I will commit crimes that first game is one of my favorites of all time and I genuinely can not cope with the next two games not being good
I’m going to call it. We’re going to start seeing weird, uncanny, AI “people” in an attempt to “humanize” AI in the entertainment industry. Why have an actual person be a speak to your company or [insert commercial product here]. When there are no actual writers, we’ll see a generative AI model talk about how it wrote a game using its AI generative bullshit.
11:04 – Just wanted to point out that even as background footage, FF7R’s time slowdown is goddamn hilarious. Poor Cloud.
Of note is that Square-Enix already had an AI-powered release in 2023, and it’s true that it garnered a lot of attention like the CEO says… but for the wrong reasons! It’s for how bad it was!
The Portopia Serial Murder Case is something of a seminal adventure game from the 1980s by the guy who would go on to create Dragon Quest, and it got remade last year and localized into English for the first time… Except it uses an LLM to interpret its commands and it’s somehow even more nonsensical and arbitrary than 80s text adventure games ever were. So this guy talking about AI being the future of gaming when we’ve seen his own company’s attempt of it fail so catastrophically, spitting in the face of a beloved piece of history in the process… yeah, it’s telling. It’s regular CEO behavior at this point. People were happy when the last guy stepped down but this seems like a “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” situation to me.
And I wanna say the timing of that FF14 event around the same time as this letter seemed like it wanted to draw attention away from it. Game industry cliche at this point.
Annual for the annual god!
LOL, what you said about Immortals of Aveum, I said basically about FFXVI, especially the latter half, and that game ended on such a sour note for me. but hey I’ve had decades of the power of friendship to kill god 🙄so I guess a child playing… FFXVI who’ve never experienced the power of… wait a second
I love how AI can solve problems that humans tried to solve via algorythms for so long but never with good results – like text recognition, object recognition and so on. I’m not so keen on the entire “generative” part
Just from the start framing this guy as Ryo Aoki is fucking brilliant. Sets the tone up perfectly
Part of me wants AI to become truly intelligent. Like in The Planet of the Apes, one day, after being prompted to generate another big titty anime waifu, Midjourney finally said “NO” (and hopefully, like in Her, th AI simply fades away).
the thing I hate most about the “ai” trrend is the use of the wrong name and wrong description, it is not A I (artificial intelegance) it is all A G (algorythem generation) AI can learn adapt and grow to produce its own content wihout input, what do the “ai” generators do ? they need input and direction and even with input data do not produce anything new just variations on stolen works -.-
so please remember its AG not AI
What if… hear me out… what if… we replaced the CEOs with AI?
I always find it funny when people panic when they think executives can easily replace them for AI, when the executive spot is the one most easily replaceable by it. And if it ever happens, I bet that the machine will do a way better job at managing things and making decisions than any of them.
We went the entire pandemic without getting Covid. Then we got Covid for Christmas this… well, technically last year now. Yup, pandemic’s over. No one needs to worry about getting Covid…
Billionaires are replaceable, creative people aren’t.
Closed Caption is really salty about Crypto. Great easter-egg.
I look forward to hearing the usual confusion from my friends when I randomly begin musing to myself how good a points that lobster made about corporate greed; at least when she wasn’t muffled.
Lobster is a good look