AI will never be able to replace the human experience

About a week ago, someone leaked an internal video from Sony’s PlayStation Group showing an AI version of the main character Aloy from the hit title Horizon Forbidden West. Not an AI-enhanced or AI-infused motion capture of the actress, but a fully AI-generated clip said to be part of a prototype stage experiment by the studio.

The clip was quickly removed for copyright violation so I can’t share it with you, but it showed the character conversing with the player using voice prompts and is in no way anything that’s ready for use. The narrator makes this very clear and says it’s simply a prototype to demo the new tech to Sony execs.

I’ll freely admit it took me a bit to understand why I cared to give it more than a passing glance.

Horizon Forbidden West Image Story

(Image credit: Source: PlayStation)

I didn’t think much of it until I saw that Ashly Burch, the actor who plays Aloy in the blockbuster game, took to Instagram and TikTok to talk about it all. She makes some very good points about how this type of technology will affect the future of game development, especially since the SAG is on strike over the use of AI in the video game industry right now.

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