We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game
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A subway station materializes out of thin air, street signs read "Sublone" and "Canuial," and sparks from a machine gun shoot backward toward the barrel instead of forward.
This fever dream isn't from some surreal art project. It's what AI investor Matt Shumer claimed would showcase the amazing future of video games when he posted an 84-second clip of AI-generated first-person-shooter footage last week.
The response was swift and brutal mockery.
The AI-generated gameplay lurches between first and third-person perspectives, features enemies who blow themselves up with their own grenades, and offers players the chance to "Lergevhtiepsappe" mysterious wall-mounted air conditioning units. At one point, the character descends a ladder by sticking his legs straight out before plopping into a sewer.
"This is what video games look like to someone who doesn't play video games," one user responded.
Shumer eventually backtracked, calling his demo "NOT production-ready" and predicting AI games will be "incredible in five years." The clip inadvertently demonstrated how far current AI video generators remain from creating the complex, controllable environments that modern games require.
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