Epic Games has reportedly delayed a shooter based on Disney’s Marvel and Star Wars franchises, with its developers told to use more AI. According to Bloomberg, the yet-to-be-named game was supposed to be released in March of 2027, but its launch date has been pushed back to an unspecified date. Aside from that, the company also told the people working on the project to switch to an "AI first" production model. One of the game directors was quoted telling staff that there will be “no more handwritten code” and that the game’s art would now be "generated with full AI workflows."

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[–] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They are consumers not investors (I think). The bubble bursting will kill a lot of the frontier companies and their investors, but not directly consumers. At worst consumers have to make do without AI for a while, but more likely they will simply have to switch to a different LLM provider. Or maybe by the time the bubble bursts we have models good enough on hardware cheap enough to self-host them / run them locally.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    If they rely on it so heavily as a part of their core business, then yes it will have quite the dramatic effect.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    How? LLMs won’t go away. If they rely on LLMs, they “just” need to switch the provider and potentially the model.

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