Peter Molyneux, creator and director of the Fable trilogy, has weighed in on the AI debate, claiming that the current environment of gaming is very skeptical of AI while at the same time not really allowing developers to work without AI.

In a recent interview with PC Gamer , where he discusses his new “god sim” Masters of Albion , Molyneux talks about the insurmountable difficulty of making games nowadays without resorting to AI-related tools, and how at least 12% of Steam users will immediately write off any game that used AI at any point during its development.

I agree that trying to use only “tools untarnished by AI” these days proves more irritating than it should, even outside the game development scene. Sadly, he continued, “This is very controversial. It is the most, the biggest advance in creativity for smaller studios, for medium studios and bigger studios.…