Of all the horrific ways AI has begun to creep into game development and the games we play, one of the most despairing examples I’ve seen lately was Microsoft’s GDC presentation about its planned Copilot integration inside Xbox.
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I saw a lot of reactions to this video over the weekend, mentioning everything from potential theft (just where is this disembodied voice getting this information?) through to the intrusiveness of the feature itself, which like so many other AI implementations is coming to your Xbox whether you want it to or not.
But the thing I couldn’t shake was: is this how little these people think of us? Do they think we, adults spending what little free time and money we have on these specific video games, are simply enormous babies? That we are mindless meat sacks happy to just sit there mashing on an AI button as content is foie gras-ed down our throats?
You’re gonna want to go to the source link to see the video of this thing.
I’ve never been opposed to people modifying games for their enjoyment, whether its things like GameSharks or Trainers to set unlimited health or ammo, or lowering difficulty, but this is really just the idea of “hit button, get happy brain chemical.”
We’re better than this. All of us.
I think.