I mean, AI in games can be neat.

As a specific example, consider Rimworld mods that generate conversations for characters, flesh out bios, make portraits based on their in-game traits. For free, on lightweight community finetunes that run on your PC.

…I like that. I like how it’s tightly integrated and a good fit, yet also “optional flavor,” not the foundation of a game.

What no one wants is AI Bro bullshit like:

…A group discussion about how the games industry can "capitalize on shifting trends in customer engagement.”

No thanks, I don’t want all of the descriptions and dialogues to be low-quality semi-plagiarized nonsense blabber just to fill space. I don’t want modders spending their precious time massaging slop to be fairly relevant when they could just make bespoke content instead.

If a part of a game isn’t worthy of human attention, let it be boring or non-existent or an afterthought.

No thanks, I don’t want all of the descriptions and dialogues to be low-quality semi-plagiarized nonsense blabber just to fill space. I don’t want modders spending their precious time massaging slop to be fairly relevant when they could just make bespoke content instead.

That’s the thing. It can’t be bespoke content, unless it’s a quest mod. Rimworld situations are so dynamic they rarely fit the “mould” of something written ahead of time. Hence the placeholder dialogue you often see in base Rimworld is already autogenerated “nonsense blabber just to fill space”

That… and have you ever used small LLMs finetuned for writing? While not perfect, it’s nothing like the slop you’d get out of, say, an OpenAI model. The finetuning datasets are open, and some of the base model datasets are open, too.