As triple-A studios embrace gen-AI, one dev is reportedly making candidates do live drawing tests to prove their art is real

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As more developers continue to ramp up their use of gen-AI, one mid-sized studio is reportedly asking interview candidates to draw live.

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Loathe it or merely hate it, gen-AI in videogames only seems to be increasing. We've seen it pop up in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and, more recently, Fortnite, with the latter perhaps not being too surprising given Tim Sweeney's call for storefronts like Steam to drop AI disclosures. In a recent interview with Daily Sincho, a weekly news magazine from Japan, one unnamed developer from a mid-sized Japanese studio claims that it's taking new measures to try and combat candidates' use of AI art, and a part of me is just sad that we've arrived here at all.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: As triple-A studios embrace gen-AI, one dev is reportedly making candidates do live drawing tests to prove their art is real

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Loathe it or merely hate it, gen-AI in videogames only seems to be increasing. We've seen it pop up in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and, more recently, Fortnite, with the latter perhaps not being too surprising given Tim Sweeney's call for storefronts like Steam to drop AI disclosures. In a recent interview with Daily Sincho, a weekly news magazine from Japan, one unnamed developer from a mid-sized Japanese studio claims that it's taking new measures to try and combat candidates' use of AI art, and a part of me is just sad that we've arrived here at all. Read the full story on PCGamesN: As triple-A studios embrace gen-AI, one dev is reportedly making candidates do live drawing tests to prove their art is real

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As more developers continue to ramp up their use of gen-AI, one mid-sized studio is reportedly asking interview candidates to draw live.


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Loathe it or merely hate it, gen-AI in videogames only seems to be increasing. We've seen it pop up in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and, more recently, Fortnite, with the latter perhaps not being too surprising given Tim Sweeney's call for storefronts like Steam to drop AI disclosures. In a recent interview with Daily Sincho, a weekly news magazine from Japan, one unnamed developer from a mid-sized Japanese studio claims that it's taking new measures to try and combat candidates' use of AI art, and a part of me is just sad that we've arrived here at all.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: As triple-A studios embrace gen-AI, one dev is reportedly making candidates do live drawing tests to prove their art is real


content_text: Loathe it or merely hate it, gen-AI in videogames only seems to be increasing. We've seen it pop up in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and, more recently, Fortnite, with the latter perhaps not being too surprising given Tim Sweeney's call for storefronts like Steam to drop AI disclosures. In a recent interview with Daily Sincho, a weekly news magazine from Japan, one unnamed developer from a mid-sized Japanese studio claims that it's taking new measures to try and combat candidates' use of AI art, and a part of me is just sad that we've arrived here at all. Read the full story on PCGamesN: As triple-A studios embrace gen-AI, one dev is reportedly making candidates do live drawing tests to prove their art is real
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