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Microsoft's generative AI model Muse isn't creating games - and it's certainly not going to solve game preservation, expert says


Last night, Microsoft trumpeted the announcement of Muse, a new "generative AI breakthrough" designed to aid "gameplay …

The company also published some grainy-looking gifs of AI-generated gameplay footage, based on Xbox studio Ninja Theory's multiplayer game Bleeding Edge. "If you've been in development for a couple of months then you won't have enough footage, and even if we make the systems able to run on less input data there must be a minimum level required to understand the full game logic. "I could ask my friend's five-year-old son to draw a crayon picture of what he thinks the ending cutscene of Final Fantasy 8 looks like and that would still count as game preservation of a certain sort."

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