“AI is unavoidable.”
It is a phrase that is trapped around my head for a month. You do not mind voluntarily. After listening to it in the meetings, after reading it in the email, and it was seen forward in Blussky, LinkedIn and Discord.
This is not a solid phrase. If you hear it from the AI booster, it is easy to brush as a raw propagation, and if you hear it from the dumors, it can take you into a sense of ambush. But philosopher Natasha as Bedingfield Told us in 2004Today is the place where the book begins, the rest is still unwritten. Nothing, for better or worse, is unavoidable.
But one more phrase in those various phrases – one you may have heard in your studio – not much attention in the past: “AI is just a tool. It can be used for good or bad, like any other tool.”
After all, this is a business where we use equipment in good or bad, right and wrong, right and wrongly. We debate unity, untrue or the effectiveness of Godot. We pay attention to whether to use procedural vs. hand -handed material. We argue and discuss this topic that one gets a complete at the game developers conference Equipment summit Dedicated to the craft of making game development software.
It is natural to see generic AI through the neutral lens of equipment evaluation – and I will go so far to say commendable to my community. This is a method that we use to achieve previous promotion and bombing, to take and look at technology on our terms and see how it fits our objectives. and as 2025 GDC state of industry The report tells us, some developers are adopting generic AIs, not in many publicity but through the work of searching for the right tools for the job.
But looking at generous AI as ‘just one tool’ is a deeply flawed lens. This phrase cheats on a cool condemn (one we hear often Angotonic regulation In joint data). Because nothing – not generous, not a gun, not even a hammer – “just a tool.”
The function of equipment is affected by them
Consider two devices found in many American homes: claw hammer and Headgan,
Generally the game developer restraces itself on the craft of making video games but I promise that it is relevant. Guns are another device where rhetoric is neutralized to reduce the negative effects of a device. I grew up in a gun-owner house in a gun-owner neighborhood in suburban Maryland. There were probably four handguns in two rooms in a vault in the basement, some rifles and lockboxes in shots, and a suspected legal world war in a closet. The mantra of NRA “Guns Dont Don’t Don’t Deont Peepal, Peepal Dont Peepal” was common. One of my neighbors laughed when I advocated strong rules on the ownership of the gun on the basis of “to kill guns”. “The guns are not to kill,” I remember him saying. “Cars can kill people. Does this mean cars are to kill?”
His point boils on this: outcome The use of the tool while discussing regulation is not worth considering, only its Possibility Use. A gun is a device and the user uses control over a device.
The cars are already tightly regulated and cost thousands of dollars, making it silent, so we will break the manufacture of claws instead. We usually refer to the hammers as used to pound nails in wood, but I mainly use me to hammer anchors in drywalls because I am a theater baby and was taught to rely on the screw in the crew.
Either in the case, the physical size of the claw hammer determines its most common purpose. The handle extends into a metal object that is blunt at one end, and claws on the other. The design follows the swing of human arm, transferred the kinetic energy generated by the bicep, under the elbow, through the wrist, and in the blunt end.
We also know that it is not useful for claw hamages Everyone The form of transferring this energy. Ball-pin-like hammer-like hammer design shows variations on how this original purpose will have to change for various tasks. The size and material varies depending on the purpose. To sell more hammers, companies invest in better materials and expenses such as rubber grips to make their use more comfortable.
Like a gun, weapons can be used as weapons. The same infection of force can be used to damage another life. Video games sometimes keep the hammers in the loadouts of players with guns, grenades and war weapons.
Neither hammer nor gun is “just” a tool. They are devices that are Optimized For a purpose. We can study that purpose, and need to be regulated by the safety, merit and its basis.
ButThe size of the hammer is not an efficient way of damaging. It is supported by data FBI Crime Statistics SurveyWhich collects the data filed by the police departments that participate in assembling data. “Handgen” is the most common weapon used in housewives, and rank more than “knife/cutting instrument” “blunt objects”. This is because the handgun is an incredibly efficient means of injuring living beings.
Let us break the handgun, the way we hammer. The handgun is assembled from the classification of components that transfer a trigger squeeze to a hammer strike against a firing pin, which attacks the primer of a bullet cartridge and sends it out of the tube. Although some pills seen in large firearms are to enter the metal, a handgun tablet is imagined and designed to cut through the meat.
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These obstacles make the handgun efficient in some other functions. In a pinch you can use the butt of a handgun as a hammer. I am not getting any data about them being used for that purpose. I can only roam the construction site and count the number of firearms in the toolbox as a normal sample size.
Neither hammer nor gun is “just” a tool. They are devices that are Optimized For a purpose. We can study that purpose, and need to be regulated by the safety, merit and its basis. The advocates of the gun opposes this process through neutralizing this process as it is difficult to dispute the correlation between the number of guns and the number of guns vs. gunners in the geographical area.
Sometimes that language is re -organized while defending this new technology. Because like the gun lobby, they do not want the purpose of the generative AI to decide with its results, only its ability.
What is that purpose? This can lead to death of truth.
Generative AI is used broadly to cheat through mimicry
The generative AI is a tool for deception.
It is not what its biggest backchers will tell you. It is roughly picked as a tool for efficiency. But efficiency is difficult to measure and easy to play. The deception is loud and clear. Students are using it to cheat on papers, Scam calls are increasing with AI-related voicesDepartment Human Health and Services Published a study Citing the baseless health ideas of Secretary Kennedy, which is unlikely to be born through AI. There was a cadre of youtubers Making AI-Janit Fake Movie Trailer To attract clicks and make money to those who do not follow the use of entertainment. Apple marketing Apple wise Advertisements show that people cheat their neighbors, family and colleagues. Activism icy storm Used liberal AI to advertise games It does not exist.
Now here is rubbing: Sports- There are also a form of deception – all of entertainment. We use the phrase “Magic circle“To describe how we attract players in our world. We use Camera Trick, Rendering technologyAnd even That bark To simulate the digital world. People join with sports, film, TV, books and especially magic shows because at some level they not only want to cheat, but have lied. AI has also been sold as technology that will make each player make his own right experience for them by generating audio on the world, visual assets and fly for them. But Best pitch I Heard for AI The trend of “hiding” the presence of LLM, only lightly ask the player to indicate the signals to complete the computing tasks back and forth. These lies can create shared realities, not completely different.
This is the difference between lying to create a virtual world and lying to shape the real. Lies in the virtual world create shared realities. Lies to tear them in the real world.
How appropriate it is that such a “shared reality shows” Star Wars, Endor recently warned us about the price that AI has paid with treatment as “Just a Tool”. “The disadvantage of an objective reality is probably the most dangerous,” in a climatic speech character Mon Mothama said that a carefully reduced the whiteness of the massacre executed.
“When the truth leaves us, when we let it go away, when it bursts from our hands, whatever monster we shout the most loudly, become sensitive to its hunger.”
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