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Google: Project Genie | Experimenting with infinite interactive worlds

I remember pretty recently they unveiled clones of Doom and Minecraft being generated on the fly with all kinds of terrible bugs and dogshit performance, now you can enter any prompt you want and explore an interactive world. It's astonishing how many people downplay what a catastrophic paradigm shift this is.
Yes, it's a little difficult to ignore now. Think this alarms existing publishers and people who work non critical jobs in gaming. The negativity from those circles is justified.
 
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I remember pretty recently they unveiled clones of Doom and Minecraft being generated on the fly with all kinds of terrible bugs and dogshit performance, now you can enter any prompt you want and explore an interactive world. It's astonishing how many people downplay what a catastrophic paradigm shift this is.

nah, this is just more smokes and mirrors to keep the AI bubble afloat, after MS sjhakey earnings.

Genie = cloud streaming with another layer before it, they call it prompting but i call it procedural garbage from all the public copyrighted materials fed into wasteful gpu farms

we are sick of them selling useless 1min demo clips as a new breakthrough
 
nah, this is just more smokes and mirrors to keep the AI bubble afloat, after MS sjhakey earnings.

Genie = cloud streaming with another layer before it, they call it prompting but i call it procedural garbage from all the public copyrighted materials fed into wasteful gpu farms

we are sick of them selling useless 1min demo clips as a new breakthrough
Who is "we"?
 
Slop this slop that. Like if 80% of all current media and art expressions weren't absolutely trash.

There are plenty of talentless hacks running the show right now.

Over 10 thousand games are released on Steam alone every single fucking year, and most of them are not worth your time.

And yet, the term AI slop keeps thrown by the smooth brains as some kind of lizard brain reaction because everything new seems to be oh so scary. You are probably scared of electric vehicles as well.

Don't pretend that everything modern media wasn't "slop" already. Everything is already copied, replicated, recycled. Original and totally new content is maybe 1 % of everything.
 
So tell me, when you're generating your own game, music, TV shows and movies, ...do you expect to be able to chat about them with other people? Or are you just going for full bubble?
 
There will probably be a time where you can make actual games with this, but they'll always be inspired by previous games.

Like you could prompt it to have the 'movement of MGS5' and some gameplay system from Assassin's Creed. To create something bespoke and unique you'd have to type a prompt so large it would probably be more efficient to just code it from scratch.

I could also not imagine how it would be to finetune things.
"Make the character slide less far when movement input stops" - generate whole game again, test, now it stops too abruptly.
 
No thanks. Give me something hand-crafted made by people. You know, people with actual ideas, emotions and passion.

I'm not thanks either but for AI Photos we're hitting that point now where it's really difficult to tell what's real and what's AI.

In 5 years time, anything created from Project Genie and other equivilants you won't be able to tell what's human created and what's AI created.


In my view, i'd rather these tools are used along side game development to speed up production, i don't want to wait another 13 years for GTA VII
 
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