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AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

Jay Peters

created: Feb. 15, 2026, 1 p.m. | updated: Feb. 16, 2026, 11:43 a.m.

For more news about video game industry’s pushback against generative AI, follow Jay Peters. How it startedLong before the generative AI explosion, video game developers made games that could generate their own worlds. But just as other creative industries are pushing back against an AI slop future, generative AI is coming for video games, too. But adoption of generative AI tools is a potential threat to jobs in an industry already infamous for waves of layoffs. The day after Project Genie’s announcement, stock prices of some of the biggest video game companies, including Take-Two, Roblox, and Unity, took a dip.

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