Some thoughts on the possible use of AI in Stormgate

Originally posted by Cheapskate-DM

There is no sugarcoating it: this is a mandate from investors, and it's objectively garbage here.

The "gameshow" that he mentions in the video? That sounds like a great use-case for AI. Canned responses, hedged in by a set of narrow parameters for tone and censorship, saves you the trouble of paying a voice actor to record 10,000 redundant lines of "Wow! Nice job!".

But hooking the fans of Warcraft and Starcraft with the promise of a true AAA RTS campaign with story, writing, and voice acting, only to blatantly try and fill it with AI sawdust filler? It's a slap in the face. I honestly want my money back.

Money is the problem, of course. Some investor somewhere wants to make another money printing machine and thinks AI will let them do it here. It's not going to work.

This is not true and couldn't be further from the truth. We agreed to allow Convai to create the demo because we thought the tech was interesting, but that decision was entirely our own.

Stormgate's storytelling (such as in our ongoing campaign) is 100% being written and voice acted by humans. We are open to exploring tech options such as with this experiment, but we are not committed to using this technology and don't plan to use it in Stormgate unless we feel it makes our game significantly better, while also being done in a way that's fair to the humans who will breathe life into our game universe.

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