Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

• LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Exactly, as I don't expect QA done by something that can't think or feel to know what actually needs to be fixed. AI is a hallucination engine that just agrees rather than points out issues, in some cases it might call attention to non-issues and let critical bugs slip by. The ethical issues are still significant and play into the reason why I would refuse to buy any more Square Enix games going forward. I don't trust them to walk this back, they are high on the AI lie. Human made games with humans handling the QA are the only games that I want.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Exactly, as I don’t expect QA done by something that can’t think or feel to know what actually needs to be fixed

    That is a very small part of QA’s responsibility. Mostly it is about testing and identifying bugs that get triaged by management. The person running the tests is NOT responsible for deciding what can and can’t ship.

    And, in that regard… this is actually a REALLY good use of “AI” (not so much generative). Imagine something like the old “A star algorithm plays mario” where it is about finding different paths to accomplish the same goal (e.g. a quest) and immediately having a lot of exactly what steps led to the anomaly for the purposes of building a reproducer.

    Which actually DOES feel like a really good use case… at the cost of massive computational costs (so… “AI”).

    That said: it also has all of the usual labor implications. But from a purely technical “make the best games” standpoint? Managers overseeing a rack that is running through the games 24/7 for bugs that they can then review and prioritize seems like a REALLY good move.

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    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They're already not paying for QA, so if anything this would be a net increase in resources allocated just to bring the machines onboard to do the task

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah… that is the other aspect where… labor is already getting fucked over massively so it becomes a question of how many jobs are even going away.

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