"As we reported earlier, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 may be getting decent reviews from critics, it's being absolutely slammed by players over its use of AI. The scale of the reaction to Activision's implementation of shitty AI art has been so great, in fact, that it's caught the attention of Democratic congressman Ro Khanna, who is now calling for regulation of the gaming industry over the issue."
"Black Ops 7's heavy use of AI has shocked players given the game has come from one of the richest corporations on Earth, in a title that will have cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Paying its artists for a handful of drawings seems unlikely to have made a significant dent, and just feels wanton and gross. This caught the attention of congressman Ro Khanna, who took to X in response to a post by popular gaming account @Pirat_Nation."
"It's probably fair to say that these aren't the most well-thought-through arguments, given just how impossible it would be to regulate in this way-it doesn't seem feasible for government to rule on how companies must listen to a specific skillset within their workforce, for instance. And it rather misses that AI art is the AI use we can easily spot as outsiders, failing to recognize the vast number of different creative roles within a games developer where sloppy AI can be used to re"
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has provoked strong player backlash due to extensive AI use, especially AI-generated art. Players are angered that a high-budget title from a wealthy corporation used AI in ways that appear to marginalize paid artists. Representative Ro Khanna urged regulatory action to stop companies from using AI to eliminate jobs, called for artists to have input on AI deployment, demanded profit-sharing for artists, and proposed a tax on mass displacement. Critics argue such regulations would be difficult to implement and that visible AI art overlooks many other creative roles affected by sloppy AI use.
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