I remember there was a rumor going around Twitter when Palworld first launched that Pocketpair had used AI for some of their character designs, and there was some backlash, but it turned out to be false. Feeling some of that heat, even if it was unwarranted, probably also helped set their opinions on using AI for that kind of stuff.
If gamers don’t want it and your own staff doesn’t want to use it, no point in wasting money trying to force it.
Now try and convince the entire tech industry of that last sentence.
That’s a good business model. “If our customers don’t like it, our employees don’t like it, and we can do business without it, why should we use it?”
Careful, when the AIs get so good that you can ask them anything and they perfectly understand what you want and produce great results, you’re going to get left behind because… you won’t know how to use the… incredibly easy tools… hang on…
As a gamer and in most things, I want AI. It is the results that matter to me, not the method. Be it sewn by hand or the loom, the final product has to be good enough to justify my time and money.
The problems come from who and why, which boils down to the feckless elite wanting to exploit and boss around people. As we have seen countless times in the past, corporations never needed AI to be cruel to people.
Idk.
The amount of AI “Ash with a Glock to Pikachu’s head” Palworld video thumbnails I have seen tell me otherwise.
I just searched for palworld videos and found literally 0 videos with a thumbnail that fits that description. Also, a shitty thumbnail to get more clicks is a common practice. It doesn’t mean that people want or support AI. Not to mention that, for all you know, those images could’ve been generated manually.
I’ve never been hit with one of those “it’s me your kid I’m using a friend’s phone give me money” scams.
Know that they’re real though.