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Nintendo won't use generative AI in its first-party games (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A rare "Nintendo did a good thing" moment.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

More of a “doesn’t plan to do a bad thing” moment since they technically didn’t do anything.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo is actually pretty good for it's employees, and at developing games. The main reason people don't like it is how strongly they try to protect their IP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I actually think this might be an extension of them protecting their IP. Afterall, the IP of plenty of other companies has been mined for use training Generative AI LLM's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is it, pretty much. I don't agree with people who are aggressively against Nintendo in general, especially in cases like the MIG-Switch, but at the same time, they operate in such a bizarre grey area. It's unbelievably stupid to both prevent software preservation, and not allow legal ways to obtain those titles

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Tbf when it comes to actually developing games they're good at what they do

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The funniest thing they could do now is make a really shitty Wario game using only generative A.I.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Honestly, if any game could make good use of generative AI it'd be wario ware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Nintendo saw Squeenix release Portopia and Symbiogenesis and adapted their plans

[+] [email protected] -31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why is this a thing? I’m not for generative ai writing code and making art. I just feel like they’re shooting themselves in the foot here. I love that mod that basically acts as an impromptu dungeon master when you communicate with NPCs.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's your right to enjoy that and there's a reason it's a mod, generative is too unpredictable for a company that focuses on high quality family friendly content.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What mod for what game are you talking about? Is the mod just writing flavor fluff or is it weaving in important information?

If it is the former, I don't care for it. I don't want to know that farmer John had a good crop of turnips. It is just filler fluff that does not build on the setting but simply makes it look busy for the sake of being busy.

If it is the latter, I would think that there is a risk that the AI NPC conveys information in a hard to understand or misleading way and players would have a hard time understanding what to do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Its a Skyrim mod, or a collection of mods. I never used it myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's more like a quality control thing I guess. Generated content is going to be derivitive by its nature so banning it internally is forcing the devs to be creative.