X proprietor Elon Musk has taken a short break from posting racism, transphobia, and conspiracy principle nonsense to say that gaming has grow to be too “woke” as a result of the business is dominated by large firms, and so he’s going to make use of his personal large company to start out a brand new sport studio powered by AI “to make video games nice once more!”
Musk’s newest outburst got here in response to Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus, who mentioned he does not perceive how sport builders and journalists have grow to be “so ideologically captured,” notably on condition that players—actual players, one should assume—”have all the time rejected dumb manipulative BS, and might inform when somebody is an outsider poser.”
“Too many sport studios which are owned by large firms,” mentioned Musk, the proprietor of X, SpaceX, and Tesla, whose private web price is someplace north of $322 billion. “xAI goes to start out an AI sport studio to make video games nice once more!”
Lest there be any doubt about his motivations, Musk wrote in one other publish, “Cannot they simply make good video games and skip the woke lecture?”
That is all deeply, despairingly silly, ranging from the very premise {that a} big company goes to avoid wasting videogames from, uh, big firms. xAI is a “startup” however at the moment has a minimum of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs at its disposal, which means it is already a multi-billion-dollar operation. Musk’s idea of an “AI sport studio” goes solely unexplored, however is presumably some type of holodeck-inspired nonsense that, very like the promise of near-future offworld colonization, lives solely within the realm of fantasy.
Regardless of the plain ridiculousness of the entire thing, Musk’s tweet is getting traction from predictable corners of the platform, who’re thrilled with the prospect of sport possession being returned to the folks (which is to say the wealthiest man on this planet). At the least one precise sport designer does not seem like shopping for it, although.
Say what you’ll about Battlecruiser 3000 AD, however he isn’t mistaken.
The chance of this going wherever past a silly thought expressed in a silly tweet may be very slim, however I do harbor some small hope that Musk will speak himself into it, very like he talked himself into having to purchase Twitter. If that occurs, I’d additionally count on related outcomes. Amazon and Google, each digital bottomless cash buckets themselves, found the arduous method that making and releasing videogames is definitely actually tough.
I’ve reached out to X for touch upon Musk’s newest thought, and can replace if I obtain a reply.
