EVE Online's Google DeepMind partnership faces little player backlash despite gaming industry's AI controversy
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James Archer
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Summary
EVE Online developer Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) has partnered with Google DeepMind to explore AI applications for the MMO. Despite widespread controversy and player backlash against generative AI in gaming, the EVE Online community has shown little resistance to this partnership. The article examines how the notoriously skeptical EVE player base—described as having the "biggest bullsh*t detectors on the planet"—has reacted to the AI collaboration, and explores the potential applications of DeepMind's technology in the complex player-driven economy and sandbox universe of EVE Online.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThey have the biggest bullsh*t detectors on the planet
Players are widely repulsed by genAI material, developers and even some publishers are increasingly wary of its temptations
EVE Online devs Fenris Creations – formerly CCP Games – have become dead keen on robot brains
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