"Gamers don't want it": Palworld lead says Pocketpair doesn't touch AI because players hate it and artists "like doing stuff themselves"

Despite the gaming industry's rush to integrate artificial intelligence, Palworld's success suggests the opposite impulse may resonate more powerfully with players: the game's creator says the studio deliberately avoids AI-generated content because audiences actively reject it, signaling a potential backlash against one of tech's most aggressively hyped frontiers. The statement cuts against the conventional wisdom that AI adoption is inevitable, revealing a widening gap between what Silicon Valley wants to build and what consumers actually want to play. For an industry already grappling with layoffs blamed on automation, Palworld's bet on human creativity over algorithmic efficiency amounts to a quiet rebuke—and a warning that the AI wave may crest faster than investors

GamesRadar+·22h ago