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It hasn\u2019t been the best week at Blizzard<\/span>, so let\u2019s check in and see how things are going with something other than Overwatch 2 <\/em>like…ah, the company\u2019s management sending out emails about how AI tools are going to be help design character outfits and \u201cgenerate concept art\u201d. Lovely.<\/p>\n

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Shannon Liao, writing for The New York Times<\/em><\/span>, has published excerpts of an email sent to Blizzard employees last month by the company\u2019s chief design officer Allen Adham. \u201cPrepare to be amazed,\u201d he writes, \u201cWe are on the brink of a major evolution in how we build and manage our games.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s talking about \u2018Blizzard Diffusion\u2019\u2014a play on Stable Diffusion, one of the more popular AI image generation platforms<\/span>\u2014and says that presently \u201cit was being used to help generate concept art for game environments as well as characters and their outfits\u201d, though he also adds Blizzard is looking at further AI implementations for everything from \u201cautonomous, intelligent, in-game NPCs\u201d to \u201cprocedurally assisted level design\u201d to \u201cvoice cloning,\u201d \u201cgame coding\u201d and \u201canti-toxicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blizzard is one of the most famous and, until very recently, most dependable video game studios in the world. It has survived for decades not just because it creates great games, but because it has filled those games with memorable characters. To hear people at the company enthused about letting robots, trained to serve an algorithmic gruel, take over even some <\/em>of that work bums me out more than I can put into words. <\/p>\n

About the only good news to be found in the whole story\u2014which also includes mentions of similar efforts everywhere from Halo <\/em>studio 343 to Ubisoft<\/span>\u2014is the fact that a different AI approach Blizzard had been trying (and had even patented) has already been canned because \u201cthe tool was taking up too much artist time to be effective\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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