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New Xbox CEO on AI: "We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop."

Draugoth

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Microsoft's new Xbox chief says "games are and always will be art, crafted by humans" and that Xbox won't chase AI slop. "As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop."
 
They will not chase the AI slop because they believe their AI is the superior(hence why she got the position).

Brace yourselves for the worst.
 
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Curb Your Enthusiasm Ok GIF
 
Ahahah fantastic beginning following the footsteps of her predecessor: an embarrassing lie :pie_roffles:
Maybe she doesn't know the company she works for or what their CEO thinks and where they're actually investing, hint: it's not anything called Xbox.
 
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Ahahah fantastic beginning following the footsteps of her predecessor: an embarrassing lie :pie_roffles:
Maybe she doesn't know the company she works for or what their CEO thinks and where they're actually investing, hint: it's not anything called Xbox.

She was the Microsoft AI Exec before coming into this position.
She knows full well what company she works for.....shes a major part of the team that made sure they became the Microslop AI.
 
Everyone cried when the current CEO of Blizzard was chosen because she was an Sims and COD executive, but currently, Overwatch, Diablo, and WOW are in their best shape in years, much better than they were in the days of TRUE GAMERS CEO like Mike Ybarra or J. Allen Brack.

So wait and see, she could be as terrible as Phil, worse or better (not very difficult task you could say)
 
Using it is fine, as long a human does the first "thing", passes the thing to AI with instructions, receives it back etc and this process continues a few times.

However, people can and will be lazy about these things...
 
Everyone cried when the current CEO of Blizzard was chosen because she was an Sims and COD executive, but currently, Overwatch, Diablo, and WOW are in their best shape in years, much better than they were in the days of TRUE GAMERS CEO like Mike Ybarra or J. Allen Brack.

So wait and see, she could be as terrible as Phil, worse or better (not very difficult task you could say)

She was appointed just a year ago, if you think those plans werent already well underway before she took the helm you are a fucking idiot who dont know how game dev works.
 
Considering the massive push that Microslop has made in recent years, always to the detriment of quality, it's plainly obvious she is lying.
And her background in AI, is the big red flag. Right now, she is in damage control mode, trying not to scare off the few remaining Xbox fans.
 
After everything Microsoft has done with Windows 11, I find this hard to believe. Feels like a, "This will make them happy" type of response. But, we'll see I guess, lol.
 


Microsoft's new Xbox chief says "games are and always will be art, crafted by humans" and that Xbox won't chase AI slop. "As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop."

See panda see panda pandering as hard as a panda can panda 😂
 
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Only thing I can come up with why she would say that is since she was AI Executive before, she knows to what extent AI can be implemented so wants to avoid using it.

I guess we'll see.
 
This is simply pandering. It's easy to say this to try and rally the troops. I don't believe a word of it. She's just using this position to springboard to her next one.
 
I'd rather have AI generated characters than done by the current MS devs, nearly all of them are so ugly that makes me wanna puke. AI easily creates 7/10 character designs while the current human made chars in MS or Sony is around 0-3/10
 
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Everyone cried when the current CEO of Blizzard was chosen because she was an Sims and COD executive, but currently, Overwatch, Diablo, and WOW are in their best shape in years, much better than they were in the days of TRUE GAMERS CEO like Mike Ybarra or J. Allen Brack.

So wait and see, she could be as terrible as Phil, worse or better (not very difficult task you could say)

I must have missed those meltdowns when they happened but at least she had experience in the gaming sphere. The new CEO of Microsoft Gaming has no real experience in anything other than marketing degrees, cloud, and AI. Which makes it pretty damn clear what the end goal is, and it has nothing to do with gaming.
 
So these two are now the face of Xbox?


P.S
Sarah Bond got done dirty.

Nope, her leaving now was smart because Xbox is now a sinking ship. She is better off starting fresh in an environment were she can actually succeed.

Xbox could turn things around but so much damage has been done to the point were I don't think its really possible at least in the console space.
 
I must have missed those meltdowns when they happened but at least she had experience in the gaming sphere. The new CEO of Microsoft Gaming has no real experience in anything other than marketing degrees, cloud, and AI. Which makes it pretty damn clear what the end goal is, and it has nothing to do with gaming.

If the new CEO was named Chad McDude and only had the same resume to take over the third largest hardware company and the largest gaming software company in the world....

Yeah the writing is on the wall with what MS has in mind.

(hint, hint, it isn't gaming first)
 
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This is simply pandering. It's easy to say this to try and rally the troops. I don't believe a word of it. She's just using this position to springboard to her next one.

She was President of Microsoft Core AI.
Satya wanted her in this role because Microsoft is doubling down on this whole AI thingy.
Sarah Bond likely resigned cuz she didnt want to bend the knee to the AI push from on high, otherwise this position was on lock for her.

Ashe has Phil as an advisor and Matt Booty as basically her right hand...Satya knows this job isnt for her, but he needs her there, but also needs people who have even a passing interest in gaming there to keep the Xbox brand atleast on the surface be about gaming.
 
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