Shares of video game companies fell after Google introduced its global generation tool for artificial intelligence

Share prices of some major video game companies, including Take-Two Interactive, Roblox and Unity, saw notable declines on Friday, just one day after Google announced its Project Genie tool that lets users ask artificial intelligence to create interactive experiences. Reuters Reports. Take-Two stock closed at $220.30 (down 7.93 percent from yesterday), Roblox stock closed at $65.76 (down 13.17 percent), and Unity stock closed at $29.10 (down 24.22 percent).

Other AI tools have received significant opposition from artists and creatives Theft allegations From their work to train basic AI models Use of water and electricityWhat does this mean for creative production? said Diego Rivas of Google DeepMind Edge Which Genie 3the global AI model powering the Genie Project, was “trained primarily on publicly available data from the web.” white paper Researchers from Google DeepMind said about the first Genie model that it was trained with “a large dataset of more than 200,000 hours of publicly available online gaming videos.”

Many game developers already exist Very skeptical of generative AI And her hand is in seemingly stealing existing work to allow people to create artificial intelligence. the Super Mario and Legend of Zelda– Similar worlds I was able to create From claims using Project Genie are somewhat similar to actual Nintendo games, but the experiences were none of the fun or playability of the original games. For an industry that’s already struggling wave after wave after wave From layoffs, even the current form of Project Genie represents an offer to replace work such as testing and concept building.

The version of Project Genie that Google introduced this week can only deliver 60-second interactive experiences. They have no results, goals, or even a voice. They can have strange errors and inconsistencies, such as a race track road that unexpectedly turns into grass. When you’re done with an experience, you can just download a video of it or create a new one; You can’t take what you’ve created in Project Genie and put it into a traditional game development tool like Unreal Engine or Unity.

But the push by investors and executives for AI game creation tools has already been made clear. xAI CEO Elon Musk a promise “High-quality, real-time video games and shows at scale for individuals in the coming year.” Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Friday said so “We will see continued leaps between engine-focused AI and global model-focused AI until they come together for maximum impact.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went long on the company’s earnings call this week About how AI will help games feel “more immersive and interactive,” he made his comments just two weeks later Closing of virtual reality game studios and projects.