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NieR creator Yoko Taro believes video game developers, writers and artists will all be replaced by artificial intelligence in the next five decades. While not a vocal supporter of AI in a creative medium, the beloved game director explained that the quickly-evolving technology will come for everyone’s jobs in the end.
Speaking to Famitsu, via VGC, to promote his upcoming turn-based game The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, the game creator explained that “game creators” likely only have half-a-century before AI replaces them.
“I also think that AI will make all game creators unemployed,” the NieR and Drakengard creator told the Japanese outlet. “In 50 years, game creators may be treated like bards.”
Taro explained that “we will move from an era where we have to imitate the style of our favorite creators to an era where we can have our favorite scenarios generated” at the press of a button. However, if creators are being generated off prior data, innovation will be dead.
Taro tied the rise of AI into his most current project The Hundred Line, a turn-based visual novel with branching storylines. While the NieR creator has spent ages toiling over branching narratives for decades now, he claims that: ““AI will determine the preferences of users and skilfully generate route branchings that they would want to read, and the recommendation capabilities will continue to improve.”
AI has become a hot topic of late, particularly the use of generative AI based on datasets of stolen images without crediting or paying their original creator. With AI generated works starting to be used in major releases, it’s becoming more prominent than ever.
As for the future of NieR as a franchise, that seems uncertain. While the release of NieR Automata and the original game’s remake NieR Replicant was very successful, there has been little news regarding a full-blown sequel/follow-up. Hopefully, one day, we’ll finally get a new entry in the series… or at least some translated audio dramas.
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