from the is-that-political-too? dept

It’s probably a good thing for Tim Sweeney that Epic Games is a privately held company and he has a majority ownership stake, because I can’t imagine any Board of Directors would appreciate this AI rager he’s been on as of late. And, somehow, it keeps getting worse. It all started with Sweeney absurdly claiming that Steam, Epic’s chief rival, requiring AI use disclosures on game pages was somehow “ irresponsible .” In an arena in which many among gaming consumers care very much about whether games use generative AI or not, advocating for those same consumers to be willfully less informed is quite the choice. Then Epic leadership dictated to its staff that heavy use of AI in games was compulsory , rather than just another tool to be used by artists.…