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by chongli 896 days ago
The AI that generates 1000 games eventually gets bought by a company

That seems like only a temporary phenomenon. If we've got AI that can generate any games that people actually want to play then we don't need game companies at all. In the long run I don't see any company being able to build a moat around AI. It's a cat-and-mouse game at best!
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willcipriano 896 days ago
> In the long run I don't see any company being able to build a moat around AI

Why do you think they are screaming about "the dangers of AI"? So they can regulate it and gain a moat via regulatory capture.

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chongli 896 days ago
I don't think regulation will achieve what they want. Nothing short of a war-on-drugs style blanket prohibition would work. And you can look there to see how ineffective that's been at keeping drugs off the streets.
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willcipriano 896 days ago
Another example of this behavior. The war on drugs not working didn't stop alcohol companies from lobbying for it, any effect that suppresses compition is valuable and its not like OpenAI and the like will be paying for enforcement, you will be.
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chongli 896 days ago
I'd be very, very surprised if OpenAI was successful in setting up a war-on-drugs style regime that simultaneously sets them up as one of the soul providers of AI (a guaranteed monopoly on AI in the US). One of the big reasons is that it would put the US at an extreme disadvantage, competitively speaking. OpenAI would not be able to hire every single AI developer, so all of that talent would leave the US for greener pastures.
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klyrs 896 days ago
>> If we've got AI that can generate any games that people actually want to play then we don't need game companies at all.

> Why do you think they are screaming about "the dangers of AI"?

Perhaps it's those of us who enjoy making games or are otherwise invested in producing content that are concerned about humanity being reduced to braindead consumers of the neverending LLM sludge, who scream the loudest.

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cratermoon 896 days ago
Yes, but we don't get to sit in Congressional committee hearings and bloviate about Existential Risks.
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hasmanean 896 days ago
Or there is only one game…a metaverse in which you create a new game by customizing the world through ai generated content and rules.

Fantasy below, Star Wars above—in a galaxy far far away.

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__loam 896 days ago
> In the long run I don't see any company being able to build a moat around AI.

This feels like a fantasy.

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