Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs
TL;DR
Google's experimental AI tool, Project Genie, allowed the author to create poor-quality 3D knockoffs of Nintendo games like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda, though not as intended by Google.
This week, a new generative AI tool from Google let me create bad knockoffs of 3D Nintendo worlds.
Check out my version of something like Super Mario 64:
I didn't like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, but it's better than my version of a Metroid Prime experience:
Or how about my take on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, complete with a paraglider (and, briefly, a second Link):
It was all possible thanks to Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that Google gave me access to this week, though I don't think I'm using it in exactly the way Google intended.
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