Rockstar Co-Founder and Former GTA Writer Dan Houser Says AI Is 'Like When We Fed Cows With Cows and Got Mad Cow Disease'

Rockstar co-founder and erstwhile Grand Theft Auto writer Dan Houser has likened AI to huffy cattle disease, and claimed that humanity is being pulled successful a absorption “by a definite radical of radical who possibly aren't afloat rounded humans.”

The interaction of AI has been swift and forceful, with the emergence of tech specified arsenic ChatGPT fueling an economical bubble immoderate interest volition burst. The mode the net works is being reshaped, too, with the thought of just usage of contented for the grooming of AI models astatine loggerheads with copyright protection. This has resulted successful ongoing lawsuits. Disney and Universal, for example, person sued the AI representation creator Midjourney, alleging that the institution improperly utilized and distributed AI-generated characters from their movies. Disney besides sent a cease and desist missive to Character.AI, informing the startup to halt utilizing its copyrighted characters without authorization.

Dan Houser believes AI volition yet devour itself. Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images.

Enter Dan Houser, who near Rockstar successful 2020 to recovered Absurd Ventures having worked connected beauteous overmuch each the studio’s games up to that point. His caller novel, A Better Paradise, is simply a communicative that revolves astir AI, and truthful it stands to crushed that helium would beryllium asked astir the tech successful a caller interrogation with Virgin Radio UK.

It’s just to accidental Houser is sceptical astir the aboriginal of AI.

“Some of these radical trying to specify the aboriginal of humanity, creativity oregon immoderate it is, utilizing AI, are not the astir humane oregon originative people,” helium said. “So they're benignant of saying we're amended astatine being quality than you are. And it’s evidently not true.

“That is 1 of the different things we're trying to capture, that humanity is being pulled successful a absorption by a definite radical of radical who possibly aren't afloat rounded humans.”

He continued: “I deliberation that AI is going to yet devour itself. As acold arsenic I recognize it, which is truly superficial understanding, the models scour the net for information, but the internet's going to get much and much afloat of accusation made by the models. So it's benignant of similar erstwhile we fed cows with cows and got huffy cattle disease.

“I can't spot however the accusation is going to get better. They’re already moving retired of data. It volition bash immoderate tasks brilliantly but it's not going to bash each task brilliantly. It’s going to go this benignant of reflector of itself.

“I'm somewhat obsessed by the information that erstwhile you hunt for the aforesaid happening again, it doesn't springiness you the aforesaid answers. And it's incorrect a batch of the time, but it says it truthful confidently.”

Houser is talking present astir what happens erstwhile AI models commencement grooming connected their ain output, which experts accidental puts them astatine hazard of collapsing. The Large Language Models, oregon LLMs, that powerfulness the likes of ChatGPT are said to beryllium cannibalizing themselves via Garbage In/Garbage Out (GIGO). Or, arsenic Houser puts it, “it's benignant of similar erstwhile we fed cows with cows and got huffy cattle disease.”

The usage of AI successful amusement is 1 of the hottest topics crossed video games, movies, and television. Last month, the CEO of Genvid — the institution down choose-your-own-adventure interactive bid similar Silent Hill Ascension — claimed "consumers mostly bash not care" astir generative AI successful games, stating: "Gen Z loves AI slop."

But determination is immoderate pushback. This week, Epic Games came nether occurrence for what fans judge to beryllium AI generated creation successful Fortnite.

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