Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the company’s CoreAI Product group. Despite that recent history, Sharma says in a new interview that she has “no tolerance for bad AI” in game development.

Meanwhile the head of another Soulless Tech Corporation Hellbent On Dehumanizing Game Development In Every Sense Of The Word “Dehumanize” Possible reminds us…

CEO Tim Sweeney says requiring developers to disclose their use of AI tools is as relevant as disclosing “what shampoo brand the developer uses,”

  • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’d go further and compare this to actors who many times will never watch the finished product. IIRC, John de Lancie voiced Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic but never watched any of the episodes until the fandom really took off. He was surprised this small role he forgot he even did gained such popularity! I’m sure he’s seen a number of episodes by now, especially since he later reprised his role

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      3 days ago

      But I bet the actors that are great who don’t watch the finished product DO love to act and the art of acting in general.

      Talent loving their art and having creative freedoms are NOT the same as management who love to please investors by following trends.