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Epic Games' Disney shooter is going "AI first," whether developers like it or not

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Cutting corners: Epic is now another of the big software companies that want to bring AI into everything they do. According to internal sources, the real trial by fire for this "AI first" approach will come with the shooter Epic is developing with Disney. If it ever comes out.

Epic's first game under its Disney partnership is way behind schedule, and the publisher is willing to bet everything on generative AI to get it over the finish line. But the push to use AI across the entire development workflow could eventually tear the studio apart.

The sorry state of Epic's AI push was revealedby unnamed sources in a Bloomberg report. Managers have apparently told the developers working on the Disney project to follow an "AI first" production approach. A game director told...

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