Microsoft Encourages Game Developers to Have AI Write Their Code in Dystopian Super Bowl Copilot Ad

Microsoft's ad for its Copilot AI chatbot aired at the Super Bowl LVIII yesterday evening included a questionable message for aspiring game developers.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Oof I think that's a not idea to do because it screams imo less passion in development but hey that's my view.

[EvertonFC]

I think AI will be a great work horse making games ie; helping with code and bugs etc but I think and hope the story and animations, art is still humans.
I think using AI correctly could reduce gaming development of a 5 year AAA 1st Party game down to 3 years maybe.

[solideagle]

using AI to generate code is fine, as I use it to write trivial programs in web development. if they use AI to do everything then it will be a problem...I think Publishers will need to make a review team to see if the whole thing is auto-generated by AI etc or not.

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

Since when has MS been passionate about game development? Either way, I do not like that they own so many IPs now, even if they do go third party.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Monopolization and homogeneousity this type of stuff makes harder to come into the industry and make big waves ngl.

[Vengeance1138]

Microsoft encouraging programmers losing their jobs to the soulless machine.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Programming is no longer about writing code. It's about delivering a useful software as a service.

[Vengeance1138]

Errrrrr... no. Go try telling that to an actual programmer lol You'll get laughed out of the room.

[Christopher]

How the heck are you going to deliver software as a service without the software? How?

You essentially just said "Game Pass isn't about developing games, it's about delivering a useful game subscription service."

[ApocalypseShadow]

They're all going to use it in the coming years. To what extent where it eliminates jobs is the question.

I'm not scared of AI or robots. How they are implemented in our society to make things more efficient or better is what's the big deal. And who controls them behind the scenes to influence others. Or built to cause chaos, ruin and death. Because we know there are those that will build AI or robots to do that as well.

But I want to see the positive things that come from using AI to build limitless worlds and stories when it comes to games and VR. Anyone that watches Star Trek can see the Holodeck and the AI that controls it can be for good as an educational tool and entertainment. Or, it can also cause harm or even kill you. But it's how it's used that determines what happens.

But even in Star Trek, they still love the live performance of music, written word, theater plays and art done by human beings.

[Abriael]

Using AI to build stories is not using it for good. Stories should be built by developers.

We should not forget that generative AI is pretty literally theft (it plagiarizes human work on a massive scale and just remixes it to make it unrecognizable), and there is no such thing as "ethical" theft.

[ApocalypseShadow]

People build upon someone else's work all the time. If you believe that there's something new under the sun done by someone, you might have to think on that again. Very, very rarely do you see anything new.

Stories are changed around, plot twists that happen in the middle or the end of a story, bad guy turns good in the end, good guy turns bad. It's all been done. But changed again and again by humans that is no different than AI doing it. It just does it faster than humans.

No one wants to see others lose jobs. Including myself. But that's life. We've seen it again and again where humans or animals are replaced by automation or software. And it's going to continue to happen if you like it or not. My job might get replaced. Your writing for a website might get replaced. There's nothing new here.

You also have to assume that everyone is working hard or deserves a job. Some individuals don't work well with others. Some steal. Some are lazy when the boss isn't looking and others have to pick up the slack. Some are industrial spies. Some overwork their employees. Some employees harass other employees. Etc etc. To assume everyone working is good would be naive. There are also those that complain about others taking their supposed "jobs" but in reality, some of these individuals who complain would never do those jobs and think they deserve better or better pay. But complain anyway.

You have to see both sides of it. Just as I have seen that there's good that can be done with AI. Just as there are bad things that can be done with AI.

And, I wasn't the one who disagreed by the way.

[Abriael]

There's a massive difference between "building upon someone else's work" via inspiration and literally plagiarizing.

Generative AI literally uses people's work in its training without permission, and just remixes it, so it's a literal content theft.

I'm not even gonna go into the honestly weird rant about people deserving a job.

There are no "both sides." Generative AI is theft and should never be supported.

[gold_drake]

its more a ploy that programmers lose their jobs

[Barlos]

AI will kill creativity. No thanks

[DarXyde]

"I am utterly disgusted. I would never incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We are losing faith in ourselves."
-Hayao Miyazaki

In case you were slow on the uptake of what was glaringly obvious with the acquisitions and layoffs, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.

I hope devs at any company MS has their sights on is looking to unionize very soon because the execs will sell them down the river in a heartbeat.

[S2Killinit]

MS’s way of thinking everyone. This is the future. Cooky cutter games.

[rlow1]

If your just focused on MS about the use of AI then your forgetting about the other 99 percent of companies and governments that are actively developing their own AI.

This is just heating up.

[SimpleSlave]

I encourage Microsawft to use AIs for their Upper Management positions. From the CEOs, the board of directors, head of the gaming department, you name it, use AI.

Trust me, AI will do a far better job than the current "humans" are doing in those positions and it'll be far cheaper. AIs don't need golden parachutes...

Leave the Devs and the rest of the company as humans and we should be ready to take on the Sega Dreamcast 2 for sure.

[Inverno]

I don't see anything wrong with the ad. As a tool for help, it is being used in the best possible way. AI isn't an issue, the issue are the arseholes intending to replace their workforce with it. If I'm a single person doing something on my own and needing help but not being able to pay a whole team of game designers, or writers, or graphic artists, or animators, then AI as a tool to assist me is the best use for it.

[Abriael]

If you're a single person doing everything on your own, and replace the work of multiple people with AI, then you're literally replacing the workforce with it.

[Inverno]

How? I don't have a work force in the first place, cant replace what I can't afford. ಠಿ⁠_⁠ಠ

[Abriael]

Did it ever occur to you that to "have a workforce" you don't need to be the boss who pays people, but you can team up with like-minded developers?

By utilizing AI, you are literally removing work that could be done by humans.

Even more importantly, you are literally stealing work done by other humans that has been used to train the AI.

[Inverno]

Assuming that teaming up is a requirement, people don't always want to work with others, also assuming that the AI is using stolen work and not just stuff you've done yourself or even stuff people have been willing to feed it. Just because AI can be used in unethical ways doesn't mean it can't be used in ethical ways. There's no replacing anyone if I don't wanna work with anyone at all, and there's no stealing if I'm teaching it with my own writing and my own code or my own drawings.

[Abriael]

If you're not willing to work with others, you better start honing your skills instead of having a bot do the work for you.

ALL AI is trained on data, art, and work taken without consent. This is a well-documented fact.

[Inverno]

Aiight bro

[HomoLuden]

a very strange ad indeed. AI is an enabler but presenting it like a weapon..