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Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI
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Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics·Nathan Ingraham·about 2 months ago
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Panic, the company behind the tiny and excellent Playdate console, is taking a stand on generative AI. The company has published an AI disclosure that says as of this month, the Playdate Catalog “will no longer accept titles that use ‘Generative AI’ for art, audio, music, text, or dialog.” Panic does allow for developers to use AI assistance for coding, but also says that “we will flag any title as such and specify the extent that it was used (for example, “Lua debugging”) so the customer can decide whether to support it or not.” This comes a day after Panic announced that Playdate season three was happening and would arrive later this year. For those who don’t recall, the Playdate includes a “season” worth of games when you buy it, 24 titles in total with two revealed every week. Season two came out last year with 12 games — but, as Game Developer notes , one of those games used generative AI for writing and coding.…

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