AI Use in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Draws Fire From US Lawmaker (pcmag.com)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/1743203/ai-use-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-7-draws-fire-from-us-lawmaker
- Source link: https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-use-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-7-draws-fire-from-us-lawmaker
> The use of AI in the latest Call of Duty has prompted a US lawmaker to call for regulations to [1]prevent artificial intelligence from taking jobs away from human workers . Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents a large swathe of Silicon Valley, took aim at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 after buyers noticed the popular shooter contains a significant amount of AI-generated icons, posters, and achievements. Gamers are criticizing it as filled with "AI slop."
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> On Friday, Khanna tweeted: "We need regulations that prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profits." He added, "Artists at these companies need to have a say in how AI is deployed. They should share in the profits. And there should be a tax on mass displacement."
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-use-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-7-draws-fire-from-us-lawmaker
Regulations? (Score:4, Insightful)
So many stupid things in America need regulations, but you're going to go for the tools that companies use for protectionist activities?
What next? Ban photoshop and force photographers to use a dark room?
Let's ban pizza ovens that use a conveyor belt, after all some poor kid is out of a job on account of Pizza Hut being able to make pizzas faster that way.
Maybe let's ban those tubes that they use to speed up the picking up of tennis balls after training.
I'm against AI slop as much as anyone, and in general a fan of regulation, but this really is something that should be solved by the market. If people don't want AI slop, let them not buy it. Go put regulations on how you produce food, and maybe get some real road safety again instead of this pointless bullshit.
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For a pro-capitalist, anti-socialist country, its astounding how much US law makers get involved in the running of businesses, whether it be with regulations, hearings or "opinions". US law makers love to do it.
Of course, its all performative - calling CEOs into hearings to berate them rather than actually doing fact finding, basically using the hearings as a court where the people appearing have already been judged and sentenced. Got to be seen doing something, but lets certainly not fix the issue through
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People are not nearly as ideologically consistent when it involves their personal life and not the abstract national level. Khanna represents San Jose/SV so his constituents likely work in tech or gaming so they have personal issues and so they're gonna contact him to bring them forward, that's his job.
Lot of folks are capitalist in the streets and socialist in the sheets (and vice versa)
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> For a pro-capitalist, anti-socialist country, its astounding how much US law makers get involved in the running of businesses,
Well, there's your mistake. Believing the US is a pro-capitalist, anti-socialist society. Parts of it are, yes, but parts are the exact opposite.
It's almost like, with 300 million people, they aren't all the same!
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What Market? You mean the one were people are complaing about AI Slop in video games as was quoted in the article. So it seem the market has spoken and yes they would like regulation.
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> What Market? You mean the one were people are complaing about AI Slop in video games as was quoted in the article. So it seem the market has spoken and yes they would like regulation.
In what way has the market spoken by asking for regulation? The market doesn't ask for regulation. If you want to make a point then you could post references to the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has underperformed on release quite massively. That's a market response. It's also an indication that regulation isn't needed.
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EA wants to make players pay for "content" at full price that those players could have generated for themselves for free by typing a prompt into ChatGPT, so they can fire actual artists to increase their profits. At the very least it is deceptive trading: EA is selling it just like every other human-created Codblops when it is not.
If I try to sell you a "Ferrari" that is actually a 1997 Toyota Corolla with a body kit glued on then the fact it may have put some Italians out of work isn't really the point, in
Re: Regulations? (Score:2)
"I'm against AI slop as much as anyone, and in general a fan of regulation, but this really is something that should be solved by the market. If people don't want AI slop, let them not buy it"
This isn't about the slop. If you're a fan of regulation, and saving jobs isn't a good enough reason for you, wait you're not actually a fan.
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> This isn't about the slop. If you're a fan of regulation, and saving jobs isn't a good enough reason for you, wait you're not actually a fan.
Except banning tools used for efficiency isn't about saving jobs. This isn't a zero sum game (in the literal sense). There's not a fixed number of games that developers are able to be hired for or worked on. There's a question of how much of a game needs how many resources attached to it, nothing more, nothing less. Less developers needed for one game allows a second game to be made by the same resources. If anything the world would be a better place if people worked on something other than yet another Call
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The cotton gin. It was all down hill after that.
Ro Khanna is a moron (Score:2)
Everyone in California has known this for decades. Anybody who went to Yale should be immediately disqualified from politics, or shot.
Change happens, get over it (Score:3)
[1]What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs [youtu.be]
No laws or or other words on a piece of paper are going to stop companies from outsourcing to AI.
People need to learn what new jobs AI is going to enable and get skilled in those areas.
[1] https://youtu.be/IqwSb2hO1jE
There are no new jobs (Score:2)
This isn't like when the buggy whip workers could go work for the car companies. There's nothing replacing the jobs being eliminated. Sit down and try to make a list of them. You can't. This is pure automation. It's causing raw technological unemployment.
And we better figure out something because 25% is the magic number.
That's the unemployment rate that preceded both world wars.
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You may want to source numbers for your claim. I looked at unemployment rates for the U.S., the UK, and Germany in the lead up to WWI and none of them had unemployment rates near 25% or any higher than usual. The Unemployment rates prior to WWII were much higher, but as a result of the Great Depression as opposed to any kind of mass unemployment resulting from advances in technology.
As another poster already pointed out, no one can perfectly foresee the future of the economy. If they could, communism wou
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It's not just about the number of jobs there are. It's about the quality of the jobs. It doesn't matter if there is 100% employment if almost everyone is making minimum wage. Already there have been articles about how most of the people who work for AI companies are treated like dirt. Maybe you will be able to become an 'AI query engineer'. But you aren't going to be keeping your skilled salary because anyone can enter words into an AI.
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The only way you could reasonably predict what jobs will be available would be to predict exactly how much more advanced AIs are going to get and how quicly. And any prediction is a "Wild Ass Guess".
FWIW, there's a company in China building humanoid robots for assembly line work. So far it's only sold less than a thousand, so it's probably still in the experimental stage, but if it's "nearly ready" then it will soon be ready.
Now most assembly line work is basically rote repetition, with only a limited num
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> No laws or or other words on a piece of paper are going to stop companies from outsourcing to AI.
Right, it's going to take [1]Jihad [fandom.com].
[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
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When an idea's time has come, those who stand in the way will be road kill on the highway of progress.
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Or, they need to say 'F*** you, I'm not paying you for AI slop' and spend their money elsewhere. If I wanted uninspired repetitive quarter-assed rubbish, I could do that myself for free.
Locking the barn door (Score:2)
The genie is already out of the bottle. Nothing is stopping developers where from using AI and they will do so if it gives them an edge. Unless countries are going to start banning content (good luck with that in the U.S.) this won't matter. Nothing can force people to play games they don't want to anyway so if these human developers can't make something compelling they'll be out of the job regardless. Right now the AAA industry seems over saturated with people who shouldn't be there. They only drag down mo
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Wow, someone is sucking hard on the AI dick.
No AI is not being used to create games. But they are used for creating icons in the games, which according to one gamer, are crap. [1]https://x.com/EndymionYT/statu... [x.com]
[1] https://x.com/EndymionYT/status/1990119315119702197
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We should be embracing the technology and hoping it really does put most of us out of work. At that point and very likely before that, we'll be changing things at a societal level. Sure, this could be our Great Filter moment and we don't make it, or we could come out the other side of AI with a lot more free time and about as much "stuff" as we have now.
I'm not buying into rsilverays's techno feudalism jibjab. That's just fearmongering nonsense.
The transition may be rough and maybe USA doesn't even survive
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If a society can't adapt to post-scarcity then that society should get eliminated. That's just about the dumbest reason for self destruction you can imagine.
Re: Locking the barn door (Score:2)
Creating icons in the game is part of creating the game. You just said it wasn't used for that and then said it was used for that.
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> The genie is already out of the bottle. Nothing is stopping developers where from using AI and they will do so if it gives them an edge.
Nothing except players refusing to buy it. ... So yeah, the hobby I grew up loving has been infected by zombie fungus and will never be good ever again. At least I will save a lot of money not buying new games or the PCs to run them on.
Don't like it? (Score:2)
Don't buy it! I will, though.
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I'm not the target audience for Call of Duty anymore, but I do play Madden. These games both share one thing in common. They are largely the same game and things don't change much. You could very well just run one iteration through AI to make the next iteration and maybe do some minor tweaks and viola, you just made the next version that will be perfectly acceptable for what it is.
Call of Duty and Madden are "settled" video games. It's a formula we like and we will keep buying. Why not let AI take that over
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> Don't buy it! I will, though.
Exactly. Fortunately many people didn't buy it. [1]https://80.lv/articles/call-of... [80.lv]
[1] https://80.lv/articles/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-becomes-the-worst-rated-cod-installment-in-history
AI is already everywhere. (Score:2)
Government behind the curve again. I suppose it's better than nothing, but these people can't spot AI filling their inbox with marketing everyday, AI attempts at all the same old scams, and AI appearing in media pretty much everywhere- but it took a fucking videogame to rattle their cage? You missed the six fingered children in the cereal isle and the endless pretend political theater being shoved in everybody faces? Videogames are the bridge to far?
It's already everywhere. You can't even discuss things on
Good example of what I already wrote about (Score:1)
[1]https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]
So how come these "threats" are just never spoken about at the same time?
Crisis 1:
Oh no, the population is aging! We will have so many retirees that can't work! There won't be enough working people to perform all the tasks needed!
Crisis 2:
Oh no, we are getting automation! We will have so many robots that can work! There won't be a need for so many working people with all these robots!
99/100 times when people speak about one of these issues, the opposite is nowhere to be seen
[1] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23802208&cid=65676250
Re: Good example of what I already wrote about (Score:2)
Just because there are people available to work that doesn't mean they will be hired. And they won't be hired because of AI.
If the GOP continues to run the government the old people won't be a problem either because they will die when they lose health coverage.
Backhoe tax needed (Score:2)
Think about how many ditch-diggers don't have jobs because of backhoes!
How about pick-and-place circuit card assembling robots? Think of all the people who could be soldering tiny parts onto tiny boards!
More taxes==more jobs!!!
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This post has to be a chat bot. It makes no sense.
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You are talking about times where civilization was growing. It wasn't a problem that a backhoe did the job of 50 ditch diggers because they needed 50 times more ditches.
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 - Overwhelming Dislike (Score:1)
"In the meantime, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has received an overwhelmingly negative response based on user reviews on Metacritic." [1]https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-... [pcmag.com]
I believe that is what they call, check and mate.
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-use-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-7-draws-fire-from-us-lawmaker
Going for gold... (Score:3)
...in the olympics of stupid ideas
Lawmakers are dangerously clueless about tech
fear the free market (Score:1)
Why let market dynamics sort the slop from good games when you can simply wave a magic wand and legislate what's good or bad, totally disregarding those paying customers' preferences.
Trust us, bros, regulators know what's best for you! Even if bureaucrats get it wrong occasionally, at least you'll have fewer choices to corrupt your feeble minds.
move to single payer healthcare and take it out of (Score:2)
move to single payer healthcare and take it out of jobs!
Moronic (Score:2)
Where was the legislation when all factory workers were replaced by machines? Where was regulation when all typists were replaced with computers. Where is legislation to prevent creating reports from data? Trying to create legislation for this is just ignorant and moronic. They should invest time into coming up with how to deal with all those people losing their jobs to further automation by AI and robots, as in, find a solution to transform society to where you don't have to earn money for housing, food, h
It's about time! (Score:5, Funny)
I have been complaining for 30 years that game companies have used AI to drive the decisions of dishonestly named "non-player characters" instead of employing real human beings to play against the people buying their games. Billions of jobs have been lost over the decades!