Når ledere i tech-branchen kigger på det menneskelige arbejde, de mener kan erstattes af AI, ser det ud til, at de narrative discipliner ligger højt på listen. Selvom gamere gentagne gange har bevist, at en god historie kan være lige så meget værd som godt gameplay, overvejer nogle forfattere måske at omfavne teknologien, efterhånden som vi træder ind i en usikker, AI-præget fremtid.
Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, hovedforfatteren på Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, er dog ikke en af disse forfattere. I et interview med GamesRadar+ under GDC udtalte hun, at selvom den tekniske side af AI interesserer hende, kan værktøjet ikke hjælpe hende med at skabe bedre historier.
"From a writing perspective, it is not really something that I find useful in my personal work. It's not something that is part of my workflow," forklarede hun. "Writing is part of the joy, it's also part of the pain. They say that there's two types of writers: those who write and they're inspired and fired up, and they enjoy it. And then there are writers who write through the pain. I think I write through the pain."
Den smerte er noget, Svedberg-Yen anser som "vital" for skriveprocessen."To actually work through what the characters are feeling, work through what they would say, think through how the emotions feel within myself, and then understanding the characters and who they are, like translating that into their words, and finding the truth in that moment. I don't know how to do that with AI."
"The whole point of writing is to express what I have in my head. Right? It's meant to express our, as writers, our point of view, our understanding of the world, and relay something about our personal, lived experience channelled through these characters in this fantastical scenario," she continued. "I feel that you risk losing some of that when it's put through essentially a black box where you can't necessarily understand all the ways that AI gets from A to Z."
Argumentet er, at AI forenkler fortælleprocessen til et punkt, hvor den grundlæggende mangler menneskelighed, tyngde og ægte følelser. Det er en valid pointe, som måske ikke altid forstås af dem, der ikke selv har mærket "smerten" ved at bringe karakterer til live helt fra bunden.
Hvis du vil vide mere om skriveprocessen bag Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, kan du læse vores eksklusive interview med Jennifer Svedberg-Yen lige her.