Artificial intelligences are now also creating entire games. The first of its kind is “This Girl Does Not Exist” – and it raises some questions.
Just a while ago we reported that artificial intelligences (AI) are currently experiencing a huge boom because they can suddenly create quite impressive images.
One no longer has to do anything more than feed the AI “Midjourney” with a few keywords and wait a bit while the AI creates images that are sometimes so impressive that they even win art competitions. At first glance, it is no longer recognizable for most whether the image was created by a human or an AI.
But now the first games are also emerging, the content of which was completely created by AI: This Girl Does Not Exist.
What kind of game is this? “This Girl Does Not Exist” is a puzzle game – in the truest sense of the word. Although the game is also marketed as a “dating game”, anyone who has ever played a visual novel might feel mildly insulted by this description.
The catch with “This Girl Does Not Exist”: It is almost entirely created by artificial intelligence. All graphical details, such as the images of the women that were disassembled into puzzles, as well as the few voice-over lines and the story, were created with artificial intelligence.
How does the game play? “This Girl Does Not Exist” is not a great success so far. With only one review – and that is negative – the game is certainly not a blockbuster. It is fairly simple, offers only a few puzzles and 25 unlockable images.
However, it is not supposed to be a big gameplay monster, but simply a showcase of what artificial intelligence can create right now. Because both the images themselves as well as the “story” and the voice-over were created by artificial intelligence.
Most believe that AI changes how games are created.
Developers stick to the concept: The developer couple spoke with Kotaku magazine and explained that “This Girl Does Not Exist” has some initial difficulties. They tried to get streamers to play the puzzle game, but most requests were declined or completely ignored.
In one case, it was played, but received a lot of negative criticism from the streamer community chat. According to the developers, it was said that they were afraid that AI would endanger many jobs in the art industry.
Because if it is already possible to create images and entire game assets with just a few clicks by an AI, it is only a matter of time before people in these professions are completely displaced.
Anyone who wants to get an impression of “This Girl Does Not Exist” can do so for around 4 euros on Steam – but one should probably already like puzzles.
What do you think about it? A cool thing that puts AI even more in the spotlight? Or just ridiculous so far and still far from being something meaningful?
AI MidJourney also predicted what the last selfie on Earth will probably look like.
