Half of developers think gen AI is bad for the gaming industry
TL;DR
A GDC survey shows 52% of game developers view generative AI as having a negative impact on the industry, with negative sentiment rising sharply from 18% in 2024 to over half now.
While generative AI is being adopted at various levels of game development, a new survey suggests that developers increasingly think the technology is bad for the industry. According to the most recent survey from the Game Developers Conference, 52 percent of respondents said that gen AI is having a "negative" impact on the games industry, versus just 7 percent who viewed the technology as "positive." Perhaps most startling is how the negative outlook has grown over the years: in 2024, just 18 percent of those surveyed viewed the tech as a negative, and that number jumped to 30 percent in 2025. Now it's up to more than half.
GDC surveyed 2, …